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ИЗ ПРИНЦИПА PrepP Invar advl because of one's commitment to some idea, belief etcon principleas a matter of principle for reasons of principle out of principle.Он (Сережа) продолжал ходить к Васину. Теперь делал это из упрямства и из принципа (Трифонов 3). Sergei continued to visit Vasin, doing so now out of obstinacy, as a matter of principle (3a)Полесов стоял в очередях главным образом из принципа. Денег у него не было, и купить он все равно ничего не мог (Ильф и Петров 1). Polesov stood in line chiefly for reasons of principle. He had no money, so he could not buy anything, anyway (1a). -
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ПУСКАТЬ/ПУСТИТЬ ПЫЛЬ В ГЛАЗА кому coll IVP subj: human to represent o.s. or ones affairs in a falsely advantageous light (by boasting, exaggerating, doing sth. flashy etc) in an attempt to fool othersX пускает Y-y пыль в глаза — X is trying to impress Y (with...)X is trying to pass himself off as rich (important etc) (in front of Y) (in refer, to speaking only) X is spinning Y a fine yarn X is laying it on thick (to Y) (only when the surrounding context makes it clear that what is displayed does not reflect the true state of affairs) X is showing (trying to show) off (to Y) X is making (trying to make) a splash X is putting (trying to put) on the dog X is dazzling (trying to dazzle) Y X is cutting (trying to cut) a swath.Петрушка пустил Григорию пыль в глаза своею бывалостью в разных местах, Григорий же осадил его сразу Петербургом, в котором Петрушка не был (Гоголь 3). Petrushka tried to impress Grigory with having been in all sorts of places, but Grigory at once floored him with Petersburg, a place Petrushka had never visited (3a)(author's usage) (Хлестаков:)...Они меня принимают за государственного человека. Верно, я вчера им подпустил пыли (Гоголь 4). (Kh.:)...They have taken me for someone of great importance in the government. I must have spun them a fine yarn yesterday (4c).На свадьбе его сына впервые в нашем городе появился автомобиль, специально выписал его из Чернигова или из Гомеля, не знаю уж откуда, любил пустить пыль в глаза (Рыбаков 1). At his sons wedding the first automobile in town made its appearance, specially ordered from Chernigov, or Gomel, I'm not sure which-anyway, he loved to show off (1a)Изредка, в большие праздники, любил Сергей Платонович пустить пыль в глаза: созывал гостей и угощал дорогими винами, свежей осетровой икрой... лучшими закусками (Шолохов 2). Occasionally, at festival time Sergei Pla-tonovich liked to make a splash. He would give a party and treat his guests to expensive wines, fresh sturgeon caviar., and other delicacies (2a)(Леонид:) Она молоденькая, хорошенькая, ей хочется повертеться, пустить пыль в глаза другим, это молодость, чепуха! Пройдет! (Розов 2). (L.:) She's young, pretty, she wants to show off, dazzle people It's just youth, nonsense. It'll pass! (2a). -
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КАКАЯ РАЗНИЦА (кому)? NP Invar, usu. indep. clause fixed WOdoes it really make any difference?: what's the difference?what difference does it (really) make? what do I (you etc) care?(in limited contexts) isn't it all the same anyway? Ирина Викторовна тотчас выгнала Мишеля из комнаты № 475, причем, будто бы оговорившись, назвала его Анато-лем... Он возмутился, а Ирина Викторовна сказала ему, махнув рукой: «Да ну, не всели равно? Мишель, Анатоль - какая разница?» (Залыгин 1). Irina Viktorovna lost no time in driving Michel out of Room 475. In a deliberate slip of the tongue she called him Anatole....He bridled, but Irina Viktorovna simply waved her hand and said, "Come on! What does it matter? Michel or Anatole-what's the difference?" (1a)....В сущности, какая разница, на двадцать лет раньше ли, позже ли родился и умер Державин?.. (Терц 3)....What difference does it really make whether Derzhavin died twenty years earlier or later than he did?. (3a).Ax, какая тебе разница, кто он... не все ли равно! (Битов 2). Oh, what do you care who it was-what does it matter! (2a). -
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ТЯНУТЬ РЕЗИНУ highly coll VP, subj. human1. to act extremely slowly, procrastinate in dealing with s о or sth.. X тянет резину - X is dragging things (it) outX is dragging his feet (heels) X is stalling X is holding it (things, person Y etc) up.«Лучше сразу порвать, - говорит, - все равно я жениться не могу, а чего резину тянуть» (Искандер 5). "It's better to make a clean break," he says "I can't marry her anyway, why drag it out" (5a)(Шаламов (no телефону):) Что там у вас? Когда будет машина?.. Мне все равно, но если ехать, значит, нечего тянуть резину, уже одиннадцатый час... (Вампилов 2). (Sh (into the telephone):) What's going on there? When will I have a car9. It makes no difference to me, but if I'm going, then there's no use stalling, it's already after ten. (2b)Ну, как там у нас? Пустили третий цех?» — «Нет еще». — «Почему?» - «Техника безопасности резину тянет» (Аксенов 8). "Well, how are things back home? Have you got the third shop going9" "Not yet " "Why9" "The Industrial Safety Board is holding it up" (8a)2. to be slow with one's reply. X тянет резину = X is stallingX is dragging things (this business etc) outNeg Imper не тяни резину — out with it, spit it out."А ты что ответил?» — «А я... сразу не отвечаю, тяну резину...» (Копелев 1). "What did you say?" " I don't answer right away, I drag things out " (1a)....(Следователь! сел, раскрыл Сашино дело. «Так, Панкратов... Подумали вы над тем, что я вам советовал?» - «Да, подумал. Но я не знаю, о чем идет речь»... - «Хотите резину тянуть?» - «Я не знаю, о каких контрреволюционных разговорах вы говорили в прошлый раз» (Рыбаков 2)...(The investigator) sat down and opened Sasha's file. "So, Pankratov. Have you thought about my advice to you9" "Yes, I have, but I still don't know what it's all about " "Are you going to try to drag this business out?" "I don't know what counterrevolutionary conversations you meant last time" (2a) -
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ЛИШНИЙ POT coll NP fixed WOa person who cannot provide for himself and is a burden to those who have to feed and keep himextra mouth to feed.И без того обездоленная слухами о своём классовом происхождении, совесть его окончательно замолкла и в распрях его страстей уже не принимала никакого участия, как бедная родственница, лишний рот, незаметно устраивалась где-нибудь в уголке, чтобы не слишком попадаться на глаза... (Искандер 3). His conscience, which had already been harassed and impoverished anyway by rumors about its class origin, was silenced for good and took no sides in the feuding among his passions-I ike a poor female relative, an extra mouth to feed, who fixes herself up in some out-of-the-way corner lest she invite too much attention... (3a). -
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HE САХАР (HE МЁД) (кому с кем ox где) coll (W\ these forms only subj-compl with бытье (subj: human, abstr, or infin) or impers predic with бытыз ( var. with кому с кем or где)) s.o. (sth., being with s.o. etc) is unpleasant, disagreeable, difficultX - не сахар = (of a person) X is no prize (no angel, no gem)(of life, work, doing sth. etc) X is no fun (no bed of roses, no picnic) X isn't all milk and honey (in limited contexts) X is no lump of sugar (no piece of candy)X-y с Y-ом не сахар - being with Y is no fun (no bed of roses, no picnic) for X.«Наверное, я тоже был не сахар. Наверное, я и сейчас не сахар, но тогда я пил ещё больше, чем сейчас...» (Стругацкие 1). "No doubt I wasn't any prize myself. No doubt I'm still no prize, but in those days I drank even more than I do now..." (1a).Видно, что её (женщины-следователя) работа для неё - утомительный источник зарплаты и только... Да и подопечные её - не сахар, должно быть (Марченко 2). It was clear that her (the woman interrogator's) work was simply an exhausting way to earn an income, and nothing more....And those charges were not exactly angels, no doubt (2a).Кирпичный завод и на воле-то не сахар, а тем более в лагере (Марченко 1). A brick factory even in normal conditions is no bed of roses, and in the camps it is even worse (1a).Неужели все наши цели сводятся к тому, чтобы уподобить ибанский (попсе word) образ жизни западному? Ведь кое в чём мы их опередили. Да и на Западе жизнь не сахар (Зиновьев 1). Surely our objectives cannot be reduced to an attempt to establish an imitation of the Western way of life in Ibansk? Apart from anything else there are some areas where we are ahead of them. And anyway life isn't all milk and honey in the West either (1a).А вообще, Люба... жизнь армейская, конечно, не сахар» (Войнович 2). "Naturally, Lyuba, all things considered...army life is no lump of sugar" (2a). -
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НИ СВАТ НИ БРАТ кому НИ КУМ НИ СВАТ both coll NP sing only subj-compl with бытье (subj: human pres only usu. this WO one is not s.o. 's close friend or relative and not of any concern or interest to s.o.: X Y-y - ни сват ни брат = X is no one to Y X is neither kith nor kin to Ywho is X to Y anyway? (author's usage) «Почему, собственно, я так взволновался из-за того, что Берлиоз попал под трамвай? - рассуждал поэт. - В конечном счёте, ну его в болото! Кто я, в самом деле, кум ему или сват?» (Булгаков 9). "Properly speaking, why did I get so upset when Berlioz fell under the streetcar?" the poet argued. "In the final analysis, to blazes with him! What am I to him-kith or kin?" (9a). -
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ТОЛЬКО И СВЕТУ (а) В ОКОШКЕ (В ОКНЕ) (у кого) (ВЕСЬ (ОДИН» СВЕТ В ОКОШКЕ (укого, для кого) all coll usu. main clause (with быт be) in a complex sent, foil. by a что-clause (1st var.) NP (2nd van) fixed WO(a person, group etc is) s.o. 's sole joy, consolation: у X-a только и свету в окошке, что Y = Y is X's all (everything)person Y is the (only) light of X's life Y is everything (all) X has (in life) Y is all X lives forY is (means) all the world to X. "А по правде, так весь свет в окошке у меня теперь здесь» (Максимов 3). "Anyway, to tell the truth, all I live for now is right here" (3a).
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