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121 if a day
(if a day (тж. if it или one is a day))ни больше ни меньше, ни много ни мало, как раз (преим. о возрасте)‘How old are you?’ ‘Nineteen.’ ‘That's a lie. You're twenty-two if You're a day.’ (W. S. Maugham, ‘Theatre’, ch. XX) — - Сколько вам лет? - Девятнадцать. - Это ложь. Вам не меньше двадцати двух.
...that girl is five years older, than you if she's a day. (Th. Dreiser, ‘A Book about Myself’, ch. LI) —...эта девушка на добрых пять лет старше вас.
That was a good thirty years ago if it was a day. (J. Joyce, ‘Dubliners’, ‘The Dead’) — Это было лет тридцать тому назад, ни больше ни меньше.
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122 play possum
разг.1) притворяться спящим, больным или мёртвым [в случае опасности опоссум притворяется мёртвым; первонач. амер.]‘That poor Inch girl is sick again. I've already told you she's a psychotic - ought to be at Brisbane. I insist on your having the doctor see her right away tonight.’ ‘Doctor's got no time to fool with that thievin' little nigger! Probably playin' possum.’ (S. Lewis, ‘Ann Vickers’, ch. XXV) — - Эта бедняжка Инч снова больна. Я вам уже говорила, что она психопатка, ей следовало бы быть в Брисбене. Я настаиваю, чтобы вы немедленно, сегодня же пригласили к ней доктора. - У доктора нет времени возиться с этой маленькой черной воровкой. Вероятнее всего, она притворяется.
The baseball broke the window, but ihe boys played possum when asked ‘who had thrown it’. (RHD) — Бейсбольным мячом разбили окно. У ребят спросили, кто бросил мяч, но они притворились, что ничего не видели.
For nineteen months they had all, from Government to press, "played possum" on the wages issue. — Свыше полутора лет все, от правительства до органов печати, делали вид, что проблемы повышения зарплаты не существует.
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123 tongue
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124 hundred
1. n сто, сотня; группа из ста предметов или человек2. n сто лет3. n ноль-ноль, ровно4. n мат. сотни; разряд сотенhundred court — «суд сотни», окружной суд
5. n ист. «сотня», округ графства со своим судом6. n ист. окружной суд7. n ист. мелкая административно-территориальная единицаhundreds of times — сотни раз; без конца
8. num сто, сотыйa hundred times — сотни раз; без конца
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125 teens
1. возраст от тринадцати до девятнадцати лет2. десятый годСинонимический ряд:teen ages (noun) adolescence; boyhood; girlhood; puberty; pubescence; teen ages; thirteen to nineteen; young adulthood; youth -
126 forbidden fruit
зaпpeтный плoд [этим. библ.]His father successfully prevented Galileo from even knowing that there was such a subject as mathematics until at the age of nineteen he happened, as an eavesdropper to overhear a lecture on geometry. He seized with avidity upon the subject, which had for him all the charm of forbidden fruit (B. Russell). 'Mrs Biggs hardly comes within the categories of forbidden fruit,' tittered the Bursar (Th. Sharpe) -
127 (as) good as a feast
дocтaтoчнo [чacть пocлoвицы enough is as good as a feast xopoшeнькoгo пoнeмнoжку]There were also very few materials accessible to a man like me to form a judgment from. But in such a case I verily believe that a little is as good as a feast - perhaps better (J. Conrad). At nineteen he had commenced one of those careers attractive and inexplicable to ordinary mortals for whom a single bankruptcy is good as a feast (J. Galsworthy) -
128 if a day
(тж. if one is a day)paзг. ни бoльшe ни мeньшe, кaк paз (пpeим. o вoзpacтe)She's a maid, 't is true; but she's forty-three, if a day, and got a large experience (E. Phillpotts). 'How old are you?' 'Nineteen.' "That's a lie. You're twenty-two if you're a day' (W. S. Maugham)
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