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ДАЛЬШЕ НЕКУДА ДАЛЬШЕ ЕХАТЬ (ИДТИ) НЕКУДА all coll these forms only predic ( impers or with subj: human, abstr, or a clause) may be used as a subord clause or indep. remark fixed WOsome person (thing, the way sth. is done etc) is as bad as he or it could possibly beX - дальше ехать некуда - X couldn't be worseitfs a case of the worst possible X X gives (a) new meaning to the word "bad" X is the worst (the pits) it (thing X) beats all (everything) (when used as an indep. remark) what next!Непосредственное начальство Филармона Ивановича вскочило, едва взгляд наивысшего начальства прикоснулся к нему, и быстро сказало, что вопрос ясен, поведение - дальше некуда... (Бахтин 1). Philharmon Ivanovich's immediate boss jumped up as the top boss's gaze passed over him and quickly said that this was clearly a case of the worst possible conduct... (1a).«Подтелков твой - из каких? Вахмистр?.. Ого! Одних со мной чинов. Вот это так!.. Дожи-ли... Дальше некуда!» (Шолохов 3). "Your Podtyolkov - what is he? A sergeant-major?...Oho! The same rank as me. Well, well!...The things we've lived to see....What next!" (3a). -
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HE СЛАДКО кому coll Invar usu. impers predic with copula or subj-compl with copula ( subj: infin)) (in refer, to s.o. 's life, the way things in general are going for s.o. etc) sth. is unpleasant, difficult for s.o.: X-y (приходится) не сладко - life is not sweet (easy, a bowl of cherries) for X life is no picnic (party) for X things are bad (rough) for X X is not having an easy time (of it) (in limited contexts) it (doing sth.) is hard on X.Он (Коля) добился своего - Даша осталась с ним. Но и ему пришлось не сладко - кончался нэп, наступал государственный сектор (Искандер 3). Не (Kolya) got what he wanted-Dasha remained with him. But life was not sweet for him-the New Economic Policy ended, the state took over the economy (3a).Прямо напротив нас живет Настя, бывшая колхозница из-под Харькова. Во время войны ее, тогда молодую девушку, немцы угнали в Германию. После войны домой не вернулась. Здесь ей было не сладко, но и на родину ехать не решилась (Войнович 1). Nastya, a former collective-farm worker from outside Kharkov, lives right across from us. During the war, when she was a young girl, the Germans deported her to work in Germany. She didn't return to the Soviet Union after the war. Life wasn't easy for her here, even so, she couldn't bring herself to return to her native land.. (1а).Ф «Жена совершенно права. И без вас не сладко. Собачья жизнь, сумасшедший дом. Все время меж двух огней...» (Пастернак 1). "My wife is quite right. Things are bad enough without you. It's a dog's life, a madhouse. I am caught between two fires" (1a)....Сквозь мятые, подмоченные дождем строки письма ощутимо дышала горькая грусть. Не сладко, видно, и Петру вливалась служба (Шолохов 2)....The crumpled, rain-blurred lines of the letter were tinged with a bitter sadness. Evidently Petro was not having an easy time (in the army) either (2a).Пересудов людских ты боишься... Что они тебе?.. Нелюдей — себя слушай. Ты знаешь, как было. Что ни перед кем ты не виноватая... Этим себя охраняй, этим спасайся, этим. Конечно, не сладко тебе придется» (Распутин 2). "You're afraid of people's judgment....What do you care!...Don't listen to people-listen to yourself. You know what really happened: that you're not to blame before anyone....Guard yourself, save yourself with those thoughts. Of course, it'll be hard on you" (2a). -
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СТАНОВИТЬСЯ/СТАТЬ В ТУПИК VP subj: human or collect) to end up in a position in which one does not know what to do, what to say, how to react etc, become confusedX стал в тупик = X was baffled (stumped, nonplussed)X was in a bad (difficult) position X was at a loss (for what to say (do etc)) X didn't know what to say (do etc) X reached (came to, arrived at, was at) an impasse (in limited contexts) X didn't know what to make of it."Я хочу квартиру хорошую»... - «Гм...» - похоже, она (председатель ревизионной комиссии кооператива) растерялась. Она рассчитывала, что я буду доказывать, что хочу получить именно плохую квартиру... тогда она могла бы мне возражать. А тут стала в тупик (Войнович 3). "I want a good apartment."..."Hmm..." It looked as if she'd (the director of the cooperative's Review Committee had) lost her way. She had counted on my arguing that I wanted to get a really bad apartment...then she could have objected. But now she was stumped (3a).Выслушав такой уклончивый ответ, помощник градоначальника стал в тупик (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). When he heard this evasive answer, the assistant town governor was at a loss (1a).(Поляк) встретил (меня) так важно, так я и стала в тупик» (Достоевский 1). "Не (the Pole) greeted me so pompously I didn't know what to do" (1a).Может быть, тем бы и кончилось это странное происшествие... если бы дело не усложнилось вмешательством элемента до такой степени фантастического, что сами глу-повцы - и те стали в тупик (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). Perhaps this strange episode would have ended like this...if matters had not become complicated by a circumstance so fantastic that even the Glupovites did not know what to make of it (1b). -
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ЧАС ОТ ЧАСУ HE ЛЕГЧЕ coll (sent with бытье ( usu. pres) fixed WOthe situation becomes worse with each new piece of information or each new development (used, usu. in a dialogue, to express annoyance when news is received of new trouble or new difficulties)it gets (is getting) worse all the timeit gets (is getting) worse by the minute (every minute) it gets (is getting) worse and worse things are going from bad to worse it's one thing on top of another.Нюрок и тут взбеленилась: «...Неужели ты не видишь, что он давно умеет делать, чтобы за него все делали?.. Он всегда кого-нибудь эксплуатирует - мать, отца, каких-то там приятелей, а прежде всего приятельниц!» Час от часу было не легче. Ирина Викторовна спросила: «Значит, ты меня окунаешь, милая? В действительность?» (Залыгин 1). Niurok lost her temper completely: "...Can't you see he knows how to arrange things so that other people do everything for him?...He's forever exploiting somebody-his mother, his father, his friends, but most of all his girlfriends." It was getting worse all the time. Irina Viktorovna asked, "Giving me a crash course in reality, are you, my dear?" (1a).(Маша:) Тебя исключают из университета... (Колесов:) Да он (ректор) что, озверел, что ли? (Маша:) Полегче. Эта девочка, между прочим, дочь (ректора) Владимира Алексеевича. (Колесов:) Вы - дочь? (Таня:) Что поделаешь. (Колесов:) Час от часу не легче (Вампилов 3). (М.:) You're being expelled from the university.... (K.:) What happened, did he (the Provost) go wild, is that it? (M.:) Take it easy. This girl, by the way, is (the Provost) Vladimir Alekseyevich's daughter. (K.:) You're-his daughter? (T.:) What can I do... (K.:) It's getting worse every minute (3b).Да как обвенчаться! - проговорил Пьер на слова Марьи Дмитриевны. - Он не мог обвенчаться: он женат». - «Час от часу не легче, -проговорила Марья Дмитриевна. - Хорош мальчик! То-то мерзавец! А она ждет, второй день ждет» (Толстой 5). "But how could there be a marriage?" exclaimed Pierre at Marya Dmitrievna's last words. "He couldn't marry her-he's already married!" "It gets worse and worse!" cried Marya Dmitrievna. "A fine fellow! He's certainly a scoundrel! And there she sits waiting—she's been expecting him for two days" (5a).«Зачем же им этот ядовитый сок, - встревожился мой старик, - кого они собираются травить?» - «Нет, - успокоил его старый арап, - травить они никого не собираются - ни людей, ни скотину. Этот сок им нужен для аэропланов. Аэропланы без этого сока взлететь не могут, могут только ехать по земле, как машины» - «Час от часу не легче», — сказал мой старик (Искандер 3). "What do they want with this poisonous juice?" my old man asked anxiously. "Whom are they planning to poison?" "No," the old black soothed him, "they're not planning to poison anyone, neither men nor beasts. They need the juice for airplanes. Airplanes can't fly without it, they can only run along the ground like trucks." "Things are going from bad to worse," my old man said (3a). -
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НИ ШАТКО НИ ВАЛКО жить, работать и т. п. coil ни шАтко ни вАлко НИ НА СТОРОНУ obs, coll AdvP these forms only adv usu. used with impfv verbs fixed WO(to do sth., live) neither well nor poorly, in a mediocre wayso-sofair to middling (be) not good, not bad.Два дня прошли ни шатко ни валко: трезво, угрюмо. На третий день (Таля) опять стал просить водки, да как-то нахально, злобно... (Грекова 3). Two sober, glum days passed-not good, not bad. On the third day he (Talya) again began to get angry, rudely asking for vodka (3a) -
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[saying]=====⇒ you cannot find out or know what is in another person's soul, what he thinks, what kind of person he is (said when it is difficult to understand a person's true nature, his mood, behavior, intentions):- you can never see into another heart.♦ [Кабанов:] Да какие ж, маменька, у неб грехи такие могут быть особенные! Все такие же, как и у всех у нас.... [Кабанова:] А ты почём знаешь? Чужая душа потемки (Островский 6). [Kabanov:] But, Mama, what kind of special sins can she have? Just the same as all the rest of us.... [Kabanova:] And how do you know? The human heart is a mystery (6a).♦ Нехорошо всё вышло, очень нехорошо! А я думал, что Лена меня любит. Когда новый год встречали, сказал Брайнину: "Выпьем за Лену, замечательная жена..." Чужая душа - потёмки, это бесспорно (Эренбург 3). "It's bad, it's very bad the way it has worked out. And I thought Lena loved me. Last New Year, I said to Brainin: 'Let's drink to Lena, she's a wonderful wife.' You can never see into another heart, no doubt about it" (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > чужая душа - потемки
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• ДАЛЬШЕ НЕКУДА; ДАЛЬШЕ ЕХАТЬ < ИДТИ> НЕКУДА all coll[these forms only; predic (impers or with subj: human, abstr, or a clause); may be used as a subord clause or indep. remark; fixed WO]=====⇒ some person (thing, the way sth. is done etc) is as bad as he or it could possibly be:- X gives (a) new meaning to the word "bad";- [when used as an indep. remark] what next!♦ Непосредственное начальство Филармона Ивановича вскочило, едва взгляд наивысшего начальства прикоснулся к нему, и быстро сказало, что вопрос ясен, поведение - дальше некуда... (Вахтин 1). Philharmon Ivanovich's immediate boss jumped up as the top boss's gaze passed over him and quickly said that this was clearly a case of the worst possible conduct... (1a).♦ "Подтелков твой - из каких? Вахмистр?.. Ого! Одних со мной чинов. Вот это так!.. Дожи-ли... Дальше некуда!" (Шолохов 3). "Your Podtyolkov - what is he? A sergeant-major?...Oho! The same rank as me. Well, well!...The things we've lived to see....What next!" (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > дальше ехать некуда
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• ДАЛЬШЕ НЕКУДА; ДАЛЬШЕ ЕХАТЬ < ИДТИ> НЕКУДА all coll[these forms only; predic (impers or with subj: human, abstr, or a clause); may be used as a subord clause or indep. remark; fixed WO]=====⇒ some person (thing, the way sth. is done etc) is as bad as he or it could possibly be:- X gives (a) new meaning to the word "bad";- [when used as an indep. remark] what next!♦ Непосредственное начальство Филармона Ивановича вскочило, едва взгляд наивысшего начальства прикоснулся к нему, и быстро сказало, что вопрос ясен, поведение - дальше некуда... (Вахтин 1). Philharmon Ivanovich's immediate boss jumped up as the top boss's gaze passed over him and quickly said that this was clearly a case of the worst possible conduct... (1a).♦ "Подтелков твой - из каких? Вахмистр?.. Ого! Одних со мной чинов. Вот это так!.. Дожи-ли... Дальше некуда!" (Шолохов 3). "Your Podtyolkov - what is he? A sergeant-major?...Oho! The same rank as me. Well, well!...The things we've lived to see....What next!" (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > дальше идти некуда
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