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ХОТЬ ШАРОМ ПОКАТИ где coll (хоть + VPimper Invar impers predic with быть» fixed WOthere is no one, nothing, or none of some type of person or thing present or available in some place (often in refer, to a complete lack of food or belongings in s.o. 's home): в месте X хоть шаром покати = there is no NP (not a single NP, not a bite to eat etc) in place Xyou can search place X and not find one NP (a single NP) place X is (as) bare as a bone."А что, бабоньки, нету ведь у нас в институте мужчин, хоть шаром покати! Одни только и. о. (исполняющие обязанности)?»...- «Черт с ними, с мужиками, но ведь и женщины из-за этого лишены своего самого сильного оружия — любовных чар! Кого очаровывать-то: исполняющих обязанности, да?» (Залыгин 1). "Too bad, eh, girls! Not a single real man in the whole institute, not one! Nothing but understudies."..."To hell with them! Men! Trouble is there's no one for us women to use our strongest weapon on-charm! No point trying to charm understudies, is there?"(la).В доме хоть шаром покати - никакой еды. О. М(андельштам) отправился к соседям раздобыть что-нибудь на ужин Анне Андреевне... (Мандельштам 2). There wasn't а bite to eat in the house and M(andelstam) went around to the neighbors to try and get something for Akhmatova's supper (2a).Остался (я) один. Родни - хоть шаром покати, — нигде, никого, ни одной души» (Шолохов 1). "I was left entirely alone. You could search the whole world and not find one relation of mine, not a single soul" (1 a).«По базу хоть шаром покати, хворостины на растопку - и то не найдёшь. Вот до чего дожили!» (Шолохов 5). "The yard's as bare as a bone, there's not even a twig to light a fire with. That's what we've come to!" (5a). -
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• ХОТЬ ШАРОМ ПОКАТИ где coll=====⇒ there is no one, nothing, or none of some type of person or thing present or available in some place (often in refer, to a complete lack of food or belongings in s.o.'s home):- в месте X хоть шаром покати≈ there is no [NP] (not a single [NP], not a bite to eat etc) in place X;- place X is (as) bare as a bone.♦ "А что, бабоньки, нету ведь у нас в институте мужчин, хоть шаром покати! Одни только и. о. [исполняющие обязанности]?"... - "Чёрт с ними, с мужиками, но ведь и женщины из-за этого лишены своего самого сильного оружия - любовных чар! Кого очаровывать-то: исполняющих обязанности, да?" (Залыгин 1). "Too bad, eh, girls! Not a single real man in the whole institute, not one! Nothing but understudies."..."To hell with them! Men! Trouble is there's no one for us women to use our strongest weapon on-charm! No point trying to charm understudies, is there?"(1a).♦ В доме хоть шаром покати - никакой еды. О. М[андельштам] отправился к соседям раздобыть что-нибудь на ужин Анне Андреевне... (Мандельштам 2). There wasn't a bite to eat in the house and M[andelstam] went around to the neighbors to try and get something for Akhmatova's supper (2a).♦ "Остался [ я] один. Родни - хоть шаром покати, - нигде, никого, ни одной души" (Шолохов 1). "I was left entirely alone. You could search the whole world and not find one relation of mine, not a single soul" (1a).♦ "По базу хоть шаром покати, хворостины на растопку - и то не найдёшь. Вот до чего дожили!" (Шолохов 5). "The yard's as bare as a bone, there's not even a twig to light a fire with. That's what we've come to!" (5a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > хоть шаром покати
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