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2 валиться из рук
неодобр.1) (не удаваться, не ладиться из-за неловкости, неуклюжести кого-либо) cf. one's fingers are (go) all thumbs; one is all thumbs; one is ham-handed (ham-fisted); butter-fingersА сама [Катя] неумелая, неряха - всё у неё валилось из рук. (И. Грекова, За проходной) — Katya was a slovenly girl whose fingers were all thumbs.
2) (не ладиться из-за плохого настроения, апатии, присутствия кого-либо и т. п.) one has not the heart to do anything; one cannot get down to anything; all one's efforts end in failure; one is all thumbs- Аделаида - пейзажи и портреты пишет (и ничего кончить не может), а Аглая сидит, ничего не делает. У меня тоже дело из рук валится: ничего не выходит. (Ф. Достоевский, Идиот) — 'Adelaida paints landscapes or portraits (which she never finishes), while Aglaia just sits there, doing nothing. I can't get down to anything either; I don't seem able to.'
До сих пор его донимал насморк, и от этого было скверное настроение. Ничего не хотелось делать, всё валилось из рук. (Ю. Трифонов, Студенты) — He still had a wretched cold in the head, which kept him in low spirits. He had no desire to do anything whatsoever, and all his efforts ended in failure.
- Припрётся в кабинет, сядет и смотрит. Вот веришь, Фёдор Иванович, я под чужими глазами работать не могу - всё из рук валится... (В. Липатов, Деревенский детектив) — 'He comes barging into my office, takes a seat and sits there watching - believe it or not, Fyodor Ivanovich, I cannot work when people are breathing down my neck - my fingers go all thumbs.'
Когда её нет, он скучает, места себе не находит, всё валится у него из рук. (Ю. Казаков, Трали-вали) — Without her he fretted and felt lonely, he could not put his hand to anything.
Я действительно в последние дни места себе не нахожу, ничего не делаю - всё из рук валится и сплю скверно. (Б. Можаев, Трое) — It was true I had been a bit restless lately and had been unable to get anything done - I was all thumbs and had been sleeping badly too.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > валиться из рук
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ДЫРЙВЫЕ РУКИ у кого coll NP pl only usu. VP subjw,m бытье) s.o. is clumsy, drops and/or breaks everything he touches: у X-a дырявые руки = X is (X's fingers are) all thumbs X is butterfingered (a butterfingers) X has butter-fingers X has two left hands....Разве стала бы я огорчаться подобными мелочами, если бы в лаборатории хоть что-нибудь получалось? Если бы Петя, застенчиво улыбаясь, не спрятал от меня стеклянный колпак от микроскопа - я била посуду. Если бы красивая, гордая ассистентка не сказала Николаю Васильевичу, думая, что я не услышу: «Никогда ничего не выйдет. Дырявые руки!» (Каверин 1)....Would I have been depressed by such trifles if I'd managed to achieve (at least) something in the laboratory? If Petya, smiling shyly, had not hidden the glass cover of the microscope from me in the cupboard? (I had broken some glassware.) Or if the handsome, proud woman assistant had not told Nikolai Vasilyevich, thinking that I wasn't listening...: "Nothing will ever come of her. All her fingers are thumbs" (1a). -
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РУКИ-КРЮКИ (РУКИ КАК КРЮКИ) у кого coll NP these forms only VP subj. with быть» usu. pres) s.o. is awkward, clumsy, and drops everything: у X-a руки-крюки — X is (X's fingers are) all thumbs X is butterfingered (a butter-fingers) X has butterfingers. -
5 неумёха
1) General subject: botch, bush leaguer, bush-leaguer, butcher, dabster, goof up, tawpie, all thumbs (ex. She is all thumbs - Она такая неумёха), kaputnik, clumsy2) Colloquial: butter-fingers, butters4) Jargon: butterfingers (у которого руки растут не из того места), goof-up -
6 растяпа
1) General subject: a sad sack, drip, goof ball, goof up, goof-ball, softie, softy, stick in the mud, stick-in-the-mud2) Colloquial: Sad Sack, butter-fingers, butters, slugger3) Jargon: goof-up, muff, schlemiel, klutz, schlemazel, schlemozzle, schlimazl, (у которого всё из рук вываливается) butterfingers, goof ball goof-ball, sack, tourist4) American English: clutz -
7 Палка о двух концах
The result of an action can have both good and bad consequencesCf: It cuts both ways (Am., Br.). The same heat that melts the wax will harden the clay (Br.). The same knife cuts both bread and fingers (Br.). The same sunshine that will melt butter will harden the clay (Br.). The same sun that will melt butter will harden clay (Am.). When you pick up a stick at one end, you also pick up the other end (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Палка о двух концах
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8 валится из рук
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Set phrase: (his/her) fingers are all thumbs, butter-fingeredУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > все валится из рук
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10 мастурбировать
1) General subject: masturbate2) Colloquial: wham the ham3) Rude: handjob4) Euphemism: interfere (with myself), interfere with myself5) Jargon: toss off, fap (применяется для обозначения мужской мастурбации), feed the dolphin, freck off, frack off, rub one out, whip the weenie, whip the worm, spank, beat the meat, fuck off6) Invective: beat the dummy, diddle, flong ( one's) dong, screw off screw-off7) Taboo: articulate the archdeacon, audition the finger puppets, awaken the bacon, ball-off, (о мужчине) bash the bishop, bat, (о мужчине) bat off, (о мужчине) beat off, beat your meat, belt (one's) batter, boff, boffing your boner, bone it off, bop (one's) baloney, bopping the baloney, bouncing your boner, (о мужчине) bring oneself off (by hand), (о мужчине) burp the worm, butter (one's) corn, call down for more mayo, (о женщине) caress oneself, (о мужчине) choke the chicken, come (one's) mutton, (о мужчине) come to a sticky end, come to a striking end, court Madam Knuckle (см. Madam Palm and her five sisters), crash the yoghurt truck, (о мужчине) dash (one's) doodle, diddle oneself, dinky (one's) slinky, do a rub up, do it with oneself, dollop the weiner, drain (one's) spuds, dust the duvet, feed the ducks, feed the pony, (о женщине) finger-fuck, firing your peter, fist-fuck, five fingered shuffle or, flip oneself off, flipping off, (о мужчине) flog (one's) donkey, flog the donkey, four fingered shuffle, (о женщине) frig, friggin' your riggin', fuck oneself, fucking your fist or fist fucking, (о мужчине) gallop (one's) antelope, gallop the lizard, get it off, getting your rocks off, give Ronaldo a rub down (от выбритой головы футболиста Роналдо, сравниваемой с головкой пениса), glaze a knuckle, go it alone, (о женщине) grease the gash, grind, hack (one's) mack, haul (one's) own ashes, have one off the wrist, have oneself, hitch to heaven, hitch-hike under the big top, jack him off, jack off, jack the beanstalk, jacking, jacking off, jag off, jerk, jerk (one's) gherkin, jerk off, jerkin' your gerkin, jerking off, jerking rod, jiggle the jewellery, (о женщине) jill off, jilling off, kaycuff foe (перевертыш), keep down the census (см. boom the census), kill some babies, knock one out, make a bald man cry, (о мужчине) make a milkshake, make like a Chinese helicopter pilot, (о мужчине) milk oneself, milk the snake, mount a corporal and four (аллюзия на thumb and four fingers), oil the bat (о мужчине), (о женщине) paddle (one's) pickle, (о женщине) paddle the pink canoe, paint the ceiling, peel the carrot, (о мужчине) play dolly down, play off, play the bone-a-phone, (о мужчине) play with (one's) knob, play with oneself, playing pocket pool, playing your flute, pleasure, polish (one's) sword, pop your peter, (о мужчине) pound (one's) pork, pounding your pud, pull, pull (one's) joint, pull a pint on the piss pump, pull off, pull the turkey's neck, pulling your pud, pulling your putz, pump off, pumping the muscle, punish percy in the palm, ride the baloney pony, ringing your dong, rope the pony, round up the tadpoles, rub (one's) radish (см. radish), rub off, (о женщине) rub oneself, rub up, rubbin ' nubbin, rubbin' the nubbin, rubbin' the rigid rod, rubbing the wad, run (one's) hand up the flagpole, satisfy oneself, screw off, (о мужчине) see Madame Hand, sew, shag, shake hands with him, shake hands with the Wookie (см. pink Dart Vader; Wookie - один из персонажей сериала "Звёздные войны"), shake hot white coconuts from the veiny love tree, shake the lily, shake up, skinning the weenie, slap the monkey, slapping the salami, slapping your boner, sling (one's) jelly, smacking off, spank (one's) monkey, spank the monkey, spanking the monkey, spiggin' the twig, spike your cock, spin (one's) own propellor, squeeze the cheese, stiffening your noodle, (о мужчине) strangle Kojak, stroke (one's) beef, stroke the lizard (о мужчине), (о мужчине) strop the mulligan, take Captain Picard to warp speed, (о мужчине) take down, take in hand, (о мужчине) take oneself in hand, tee off, throttle the turkey, (о мужчине) tickle the pickle, tickle your dick, tootling your flute, toss, (о мужчине) toss off, touch oneself up, tug, (о мужчине) twang the wire, (о мужчине) varnish (one's) cane, wack-off, walk the plank, wank, wanking, wash the cosh, waste time, watch Andy Griffith, watcha doin, (о мужчине) wax the cucumber, waz, whack off, whacking off, whip off, whitewash the hall, wonk (one's) conker (см. wank), (о мужчине) wrench off, yank (one's) crank, feel myself8) Phraseological unit: buff the muffin (To masturbate.) -
11 соловья баснями не кормят
посл.a nightingale can't live on fairy tales; cf. you can't feed the hungry with words; a fine cage won't feed the bird; a fine cage does not fill a bird's belly; a hungry belly has no ears; fine (kind, soft) words butter no parsnips; many words will not fill a bushel; words pay no debts; it's no use preaching to a hungry man- Да, - сказал Алексей Александрович и, встав, заложил руки и потрещал ими. - Я заехал ещё привезть тебе денег, так как соловья баснями не кормят, - сказал он. - Тебе нужно, я думаю. (Л. Толстой, Анна Каренина) — 'Yes,' said Alexei Alexandrovich, and getting up, he folded his hands and cracked his fingers. 'I've come to bring you some money, too, for nightingales, we know, can't live on fairy tales,' he said. 'You want it, I expect?'
- Соловья баснями не кормят, - объявил наконец Михаил Матвеевич и тем положил конец затянувшейся серии восторгов, от которой даже терпеливый Матвей начал уже похныкивать. (И. Грекова, Кафедра) — 'You can't feed the hungry with words,' Mikhail Matveyevich finally declared, putting an end to the long drawn-out transports of enthusiasm, which had even caused the patient Matvei to begin whimpering.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > соловья баснями не кормят
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