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  • 1 Т-137

    ВЗЯТЬ В ТОЛК (что) coll VP subj: human usu. infin with a finite form of не мочь or neg fut often foil. by a subord clause) to comprehend sth.: X не мог взять в толк - X couldn't understand (figure out) sth. X couldn't make (could make no) sense of sth. X couldn't make head nor (or) tail of sth. X couldn't make heads or tails of sth. (in limited contexts) X couldn't grasp the fact that
    ...«Но к чему так громко? Старик услышит, обидится». — «Ничего он не услышит... А и услышит, не возьмёт в толк, - с придурью» (Пастернак 1). "But don't talk so loud. You don't want to hurt the old man's feelings." "He won't hear anything.... And if he did, he wouldn't understand-he's not quite right in the head" (1a).
    «Что такое? - не могла Романиха в толк взять. - Ведь должно же быть хоть кому-то в этом городе жить хорошо» (Суслов 1). "What is this?" Romanikha could make no sense of it. "There should be someone in the city who's living well" (1a).
    Он никак не мог взять в толк, какого чёрта мельничный жёрнов оказался лежащим на пастухе, а сам пастух при этом оказался лежащим в воде (Искандер 3)....Не could not make head nor tail of it— how the devil did the millstone end up lying on the shepherd, and the shepherd lying in the water? (3a).
    Тётушка Хрисула не могла взять в толк, что разноязыкой нашей деревенской молодёжи к этому времени проще всего было говорить по-русски (Искандер 5). Auntie Chrysoula could not grasp the fact that by now the young people of our polyglot villages found it easiest to speak Russian (5a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Т-137

  • 2 взять в толк

    [VP; subj: human; usu. infin with a finite form of не мочь or neg fut; often foll. by a subord clause]
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    ⇒ to comprehend (sth.):
    - X не мог взять в толк≈ X couldn't understand (figure out) (sth.);
    - X couldn't make (could make no) sense of (sth.);
    - X couldn't make head nor (or) tail of (sth.);
    - X couldn't make heads or tails of (sth.);
    - [in limited contexts] X couldn't grasp the fact that...
         ♦ "Но к чему так громко? Старик услышит, обидится". - "Ничего он не услышит... А и услышит, не возьмёт в толк, - с придурью" (Пастернак 1). "But don't talk so loud. You don't want to hurt the old man's feelings." "He won't hear anything.... And if he did, he wouldn't understand-he's not quite right in the head" (1a).
         ♦ " Что такое? - не могла Романиха в толк взять. - Ведь должно же быть хоть кому-то в этом городе жить хорошо" (Суслов 1). "What is this?" Romanikha could make no sense of it. "There should be someone in the city who's living well" (1a).
         ♦...Он никак не мог взять в толк, какого чёрта мельничный жёрнов оказался лежащим на пастухе, а сам пастух при этом оказался лежащим в воде (Искандер 3)....He could not make head nor tail of it - how the devil did the millstone end up lying on the shepherd, and the shepherd lying in the water? (3a).
         ♦ Тётушка Хрисула не могла взять в толк, что разноязыкой нашей деревенской молодёжи к этому времени проще всего было говорить по-русски (Искандер 5). Auntie Chrysoula could not grasp the fact that by now the young people of our polyglot villages found it easiest to speak Russian (5a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > взять в толк

  • 3 Ч-82

    CAM ЧЁРТ (НИ ОДИН ЧЁРТ, И ЧЁРТ) не разберет, не поймёт coll NP nom sing only subj) no one (will understand sth.), it is absolutely impossible (to make sth. out)
    the devil himself (couldn't figure sth. out (would be hard put to know sth. etc)).
    «Сам чёрт не разберёт, кто тут плохой, кто хороший...» (Гинзбург 2). "The devil himself would be hard put to know who's good and who's bad around here" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Ч-82

  • 4 ни один черт

    I
    • НИ ОДИН ЧЕРТ highly coll
    [NP; nom sing only; subj; used with negated verbs]
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    ⇒ absolutely no one:
    - not one person (one of them etc).
         ♦ Гнали письма в единственную отдушину, через смутную Польшу (ни один чёрт не знал, кстати говоря, что в ней творится и что это за такая новая страна - Польша) в Германию... (Булгаков 3). They sent off letters through the only escape-hole across turbulent, insecure Poland (not one of them, incidentally, had the slightest idea what was going on there or even what sort of place this new country-Poland-was) to Germany... (3a).
    II
    • САМ ЧЕРТ <НИ ОДИН ЧЕРТ, И ЧЕРТ> не разберёт, не поймёт coll
    [NP; nom sing only; subj]
    =====
    ⇒ no one (will understand sth.), it is absolutely impossible (to make sth. out):
    - the devil himself (couldn't figure sth. out <would be hard put to know sth. etc>).
         ♦ "Сам чёрт не разберёт, кто тут плохой, кто хороший..." (Гинзбург 2). "The devil himself would be hard put to know who's good and who's bad around here" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ни один черт

  • 5 и черт

    • САМ ЧЕРТ <НИ ОДИН ЧЕРТ, И ЧЕРТ> не разберёт, не поймёт coll
    [NP; nom sing only; subj]
    =====
    ⇒ no one (will understand sth.), it is absolutely impossible (to make sth. out):
    - the devil himself (couldn't figure sth. out <would be hard put to know sth. etc>).
         ♦ "Сам чёрт не разберёт, кто тут плохой, кто хороший..." (Гинзбург 2). "The devil himself would be hard put to know who's good and who's bad around here" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > и черт

  • 6 сам черт

    • САМ ЧЕРТ <НИ ОДИН ЧЕРТ, И ЧЕРТ> не разберёт, не поймёт coll
    [NP; nom sing only; subj]
    =====
    ⇒ no one (will understand sth.), it is absolutely impossible (to make sth. out):
    - the devil himself (couldn't figure sth. out <would be hard put to know sth. etc>).
         ♦ "Сам чёрт не разберёт, кто тут плохой, кто хороший..." (Гинзбург 2). "The devil himself would be hard put to know who's good and who's bad around here" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > сам черт

См. также в других словарях:

  • figure out — {v.} 1. To find an answer by thinking about (some problem or difficulty); solve. * /Tom couldn t figure out the last problem on the arithmetic test./ * /Sam couldn t figure out how to print a program until the teacher showed him how./ * /Mary… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • figure out — {v.} 1. To find an answer by thinking about (some problem or difficulty); solve. * /Tom couldn t figure out the last problem on the arithmetic test./ * /Sam couldn t figure out how to print a program until the teacher showed him how./ * /Mary… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • figure\ out — v 1. To find an answer by thinking about (some problem or difficulty); solve. Tom couldn t figure out the last problem on the arithmetic test. Sam couldn t figure out how to print a program until the teacher showed him how. Mary couldn t figure… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • figure out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms figure out : present tense I/you/we/they figure out he/she/it figures out present participle figuring out past tense figured out past participle figured out 1) to be able to understand something or to solve a… …   English dictionary

  • figure somebody out — ˌfigure sb/sthˈout derived 1. to think about sb/sth until you understand them/it Syn: ↑work out • We couldn t figure her out. • figure somebody out how, what, etc… I can t figure out how to do this …   Useful english dictionary

  • figure — fig|ure1 W1S1 [ˈfıgə US ˈfıgjər] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(number)¦ 2¦(amount of money)¦ 3¦(person)¦ 4¦(woman s body)¦ 5 father/mother/authority figure 6 figures 7¦(mathematical shape)¦ 8¦(painting/model)¦ 9¦(drawing)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • figure — 1 noun (C) 1 NUMBER a) a number representing an amount, especially an officially published number: keeping unemployment figures down b) a number from 0 to 10, written as a sign rather than a word : a four/five/six figure number (=a number in the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • figure — fig|ure1 [ fıgjər ] noun *** ▸ 1 number/amount ▸ 2 important person ▸ 3 drawing in a book ▸ 4 mathematical shape ▸ 5 person or person s shape ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count often plural an official number that has been counted or calculated: Government… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • figure something out — (informal) he tried to figure out how to switch on the lamp: WORK OUT, fathom, puzzle out, decipher, ascertain, make sense of, think through, get to the bottom of; understand, c …   Useful english dictionary

  • figure — figurable, adj. figureless, adj. figurer, n. /fig yeuhr/; esp. Brit. /fig euhr/, n., v., figured, figuring. n. 1. a numerical symbol, esp. an Arabic numeral. 2. an amount or value expressed in numbers. 3. figures, the use of number …   Universalium

  • understand — 1. verb 1) he couldn t understand anything we said Syn: comprehend, grasp, take in, see, apprehend, follow, make sense of, fathom; unravel, decipher, interpret; informal figure out, work out, make head(s) or tail(s) of, get one s head around, get …   Thesaurus of popular words

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