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1 be gone in the upper storey
(be gone (a little light, weak или wrong) in the upper storey)быть не в своём уме, рехнуться; ≈ не все дома, винтика не хватаетAnd if she was, as we say... "a little light in the upper storey", she was nevertheless an industrious and kindly wman... (Th. Dreiser, ‘A Gallery of Women’, ‘Diff’) — Несмотря на то, что у нее, как говорится... "на чердаке не все в порядке", она была женщина добрая и трудолюбивая...
Barney thought he was gone in the upper storey, but I reck'n he's got more there, Chris, than most of us. (K. S. Prichard, ‘The Roaring Nineties’, ch. 49) — Барни уверяет, что у Криса не все дома, ну а мне кажется, что мозгами он ворочает получше нашего.
Large English-Russian phrasebook > be gone in the upper storey
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2 storey
ˈstɔ:rɪ сущ. этаж;
ярус этаж;
ярус - on the third * на четвертом этаже - to add a * to a house надстроить этаж > the top /upper/ * мозги, "котелок" > he is weak in the upper * у него котелок плохо варит storey этаж;
ярус;
to add a storey to a house надстроить дом;
the upper storey см. upper second ~ третий этаж (США) storey этаж;
ярус;
to add a storey to a house надстроить дом;
the upper storey см. upper ~ этаж ~ ярус story: story = storey storey этаж;
ярус;
to add a storey to a house надстроить дом;
the upper storey см. upper upper: upper верхний;
высший;
the Upper House верхняя палата;
the upper servants старшая прислуга (дворецкий и т. п.) ;
the upper ten (thousand) верхушка общества ~ верхний ~ верхний зуб ~ разг. верхняя полка (в вагоне) ~ горн. восстающий( о шпуре) ~ горн. восстающий шпур ~ высший ~ pl гетры;
гамаши ~ передок ботинка storey этаж;
ярус;
to add a storey to a house надстроить дом;
the upper storey см. upper upper: the ~ storey разг. башка, "чердак";
he is a little wrong in the upper storey = у него не все дома the ~ storey верхний этаж
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