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что-л. запасное, дополнительные средства; см. тж. the first stringPerceiving the extraordinarily uphill nature of Foggartism, she had been looking for a second string to Michael's Parliamentary bow... (J. Galsworthy, ‘Swan Song’, part I, ch. I) — Поняв, что фоггартизму уготован весьма тернистый путь, Флер уже давно подыскивала Майклу новую тему для выступления в парламенте...
When his wife, Susie was going to have a baby, and flowers were not paying as well as he had hoped, Bob built a shed and bought a couple of incubators to hatch day-old chicks as a second string to his bow. (K. S. Prichard, ‘N'Goola and Other Stories’, ‘A Devout Lover’) — Сузи ждала ребенка, а цветы не приносили того дохода, на который Боб рассчитывал, и он построил сарай, купил два инкубатора и стал выводить цыплят. Это был второй источник доходов.
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