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General subject: (каким-то) by a (some) miracle, by the skin of (one's) teeth, by the seat of pants, by the skin of one's teeth -
3 едва-едва
General subject: by the skin of (one's) teeth, with the skin of ( one's) teeth -
4 еле-еле
1) General subject: barely, by a finger's breadth, by a narrow margin, by the skin of ( one's) teeth, faintly, hardly, just, narrow, with the skin of (one's) teeth, just barely2) Dialect: scant3) Australian slang: by a nose4) Makarov: narrowly -
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6 еле-еле успеть что-то сделать
General subject: by the skin of one's teeth ("I'll have to start earlier the next time. This time I only finished by the skin of my teeth.")Универсальный русско-английский словарь > еле-еле успеть что-то сделать
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7 с трудом
1) General subject: arduously, barely, by a narrow margin, drudgingly, hard, hardly, illy, jog, limp (о подбитом самолете и т.п.), only just, scarce, scarcely, slump, ill, bumpily, with an effort, by a finger's breadth, fighting to/for (он дышал с трудом - he was fighting for breath), some doing (мы его с трудом уговорили - it took some doing to convince him), scarсely, with effort, with effort, laboriously2) Mathematics: not readily, with difficulty3) Australian slang: by a nose4) Makarov: heavily5) Phraseological unit: by the skin of (one's) teeth ("I passed the test by the skin of my teeth.") -
8 с грехом пополам
разг.1) (с большим трудом, еле-еле, кое-как) somehow or other; in one way and another; with some (little) effort; barely; pretty badly; just scraping through smth.; cf. by the skin of one's teethА как с Павликом? Будь он хотя бы лет двенадцати, можно было бы сказать, что ему тринадцатый, а в этом возрасте, с грехом пополам, Тихон Платонович пристроил бы мальчика хотя бы при себе, в Утиль-отделе. (К. Федин, Необыкновенное лето) — But what about Pavlik? If only he were twelve years old he might be passed off for fifteen, an age at which with a little effort he might find him a job - perhaps in the same organisation for which he worked - the Old Goods Department.
По вечерам, покончив со своими делами, она садилась к столу и раскрывала тетрадки, которые ей дал Листопад. С грехом пополам удалось расшифровать конспекты лекций по сопротивлению материалов. (В. Панова, Кружилиха) — In the evenings, having finished other work, she sat down at her table and opened the copybooks. Finally, in one way and another, she managed to decipher the notes on the resistance of material.
Варя писала, что с грехом пополам она кончила этот "противный" геологический техникум. (Ю. Герман, Дело, которому ты служишь) — Varya said that she was finished with her 'horrid' geological school at last, after just scraping through the exams.
Бритва... была не ахти правленной, да и без руки левой бриться неудобно. Но всё же с грехом пополам побрился Сашка. (В. Кондратьев, Сашка) — The razor wasn't particularly good, and shaving wasn't so easy with only his right hand. But he managed it somehow.
2) уст. (сомнительным путём, неблаговидным способом, нечестно, с обманом) cf. by hook or by crook; by fair means or foulРусско-английский фразеологический словарь > с грехом пополам
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С ГРЕХОМ ПОПОЛАМ coll AdvP Invar adv fixed WO1. Also: С ГОРЕМ ПОПОЛАМ coll with difficulty and almost not succeeding: (just) barely(just) barely manage (to do sth.) just scrape through sth. (in limited contexts) by the skin of one's teeth (of one's ability to do sth.) after a fashion.Антифашистский роман, в центре - интересный образ эсэсовца. Написанный в той субъективной манере, которая уже протискивалась, хотя и с грехом пополам, в узкие щели наших издательств и журналов (Орлова 1). It was an antifascist novel with a very powerful portrait of an SS officer, written in that subjective fashion that just barely allowed it to squeeze through the narrow cracks of our publishing houses and journals (1a).(Сарафанов:) У меня было звание капитана, меня оставляли в армии. С грехом пополам я демобилизовался (Вампилов 4). (S.:) I was a captain in the army and they wanted me to stay. I just barely managed to get a discharge (4b).Ты говоришь по-испански?» — «С грехом пополам». "Do you speak Spanish?" "After a fashion."2. obs through deception, trickeryin an underhand(ed) wayby dishonest means. -
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• С ГРЕХОМ ПОПОЛАМ coU[AdvP; Invar; adv; fixed WO]=====1. Also: С ГОРЕМ ПОПОЛАМ coll with difficulty and almost not succeeding: (just) barely; (just) barely manage (to do sth.); just scrape through (sth.); [in limited contexts]⇒ by the skin of one's teeth; [of one's ability to do sth.] after a fashion.♦ Антифашистский роман, в центре - интересный образ эсэсовца. Написанный в той субъективной манере, которая уже протискивалась, хотя и с грехом пополам, в узкие щели наших издательств и журналов (Орлова 1). It was an antifascist novel with a very powerful portrait of an SS officer, written in that subjective fashion that just barely allowed it to squeeze through the narrow cracks of our publishing houses and journals (1a).♦ [Сарафанов:] У меня было звание капитана, меня оставляли в армии. С грехом пополам я демобилизовался (Вампилов 4). [S.:] I was a captain in the army and they wanted me to stay. I just barely managed to get a discharge (4b).♦ "Ты говоришь по-испански?" - " С грехом пополам". "Do you speak Spanish?" "After a fashion."2. obs through deception, trickery:- by dishonest means.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > с горем пополам
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[AdvP; Invar; adv; fixed WO]=====1. Also: С ГОРЕМ ПОПОЛАМ coll with difficulty and almost not succeeding: (just) barely; (just) barely manage (to do sth.); just scrape through (sth.); [in limited contexts]⇒ by the skin of one's teeth; [of one's ability to do sth.] after a fashion.♦ Антифашистский роман, в центре - интересный образ эсэсовца. Написанный в той субъективной манере, которая уже протискивалась, хотя и с грехом пополам, в узкие щели наших издательств и журналов (Орлова 1). It was an antifascist novel with a very powerful portrait of an SS officer, written in that subjective fashion that just barely allowed it to squeeze through the narrow cracks of our publishing houses and journals (1a).♦ [Сарафанов:] У меня было звание капитана, меня оставляли в армии. С грехом пополам я демобилизовался (Вампилов 4). [S.:] I was a captain in the army and they wanted me to stay. I just barely managed to get a discharge (4b).♦ "Ты говоришь по-испански?" - "С грехом пополам". "Do you speak Spanish?" "After a fashion."2. obs through deception, trickery:- by dishonest means.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > с грехом пополам
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12 уносить ноги
[unosit' nogi]
To carry away one's legs.
To flee; to run as fast as one's legs will carry one; to have a narrow escape.
Cf. To escape by the skin of one's teeth. Русские фразеологизмы в картинках (русско-английский словарь) > уносить ноги
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13 уносить
несов. - уноси́ть, сов. - унести́; (вн.)1) (нагрузив на себя, удалять откуда-л) take away (d)уноси́ть с собо́й — take (d) (away) with one
3) (переносить куда-л в мыслях, мечтах) carry (d)воображе́ние унесло́ его́ далеко́ — his fancy carried him away, he was carried away by his fancy, his imagination ran away with him
••уноси́ть но́ги — take to one's heels, take flight, cut and run
е́ле но́ги унести́ — ≈ escape by the skin of one's teeth
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14 едва ноги унести
едва (еле, насилу) ноги унестиhave a narrow (hairbreadth escape); escape by the skin of one's teeth; scarcely escape aliveГ-жа Простакова.
Да где наш Адам Адамыч? Еремеевна. Я и к нему было толкнулась, да насилу унесла ноги: дым столбом, моя матушка! Задушил, проклятый, табачищем. Такой греховодник. (Д. Фонвизин, Недоросль) — Mrs Prostakova: Where is our Adam Adamych? Yeremeyevna: I was going to his room, but scarcely escaped alive. There is such a thick cloud of smoke, dear mistress! The scoundrel almost choked me to death with his tobacco! Such a sinner!Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > едва ноги унести
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15 едва ноги унести
General subject: escape by the skin of one's teeth -
16 еле ноги унести
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17 с грехом пополам
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18 на волос
I• НА ВОЛОС; НА ВОЛОСОК both obs[PrepP; these forms only]=====1. [adv or modif; often preceded by хоть]⇒ (even) a little:- [in limited contexts](even) by a hairbreadth (a hairs-breadth etc).♦ "...Захочу ли я хоть на волос стеснять твою жизнь, твои привычки?" (Тургенев 2). "...Would I want to interfere, even in the slightest way, with your life, with your habits?" (2d).♦...Штольц не мог уловить у ней на лице и в словах... даже искры чувства, которое хоть бы на волос выходило за границы тёплой, сердечной, но обыкновенной дружбы (Гончаров 1)....Stolz was unable to detect in her face or her words...a spark of feeling which by a hairbreadth exceeded the limits of warm, affectionate, but ordinary friendship (1b).2. [adv (intensif); used with negated verbs]⇒ not at all:- [in limited contexts] not by (so much as) a hairbreadth.II• НА ВОЛОСОК <НА ВОЛОСКЕ, НА ВОЛОС obs> от чего[PrepP; these forms only; subj-compl with copula (subj: usu. human or collect; prep obj: usu. от смерти, от гибели etc; usu. used with past verbs]=====⇒ one is very close (to death, ruin etc) (if used with a past-form verb, refers to danger or trouble that one has managed to avoid):- X был на волосок от Y-a ≈ X was within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc, an inch, a whisker) of Y;- X was on the verge (of Y).♦ Ужасной была поездка в Москву по вызову Ярославского. Вот когда я была на волосок от самоубийства! (Гинзбург 1). The journey back to Moscow at Yaroslavsky's summons was terrible. I was within a hair's breadth of suicide (1a).♦...Из парадного вынесли Ольгу, покрытую, как покойница, клеймёной больничной простынёй, и... Лёва, враз забыв обо всём, судорожно потянулся к сестре: "Олюшка, как же это ты?"...Но [врач] взял актёра за пуговицу плаша: "Вам, милый, не следует здесь находиться. Вы сами на волосок от этого. Максимум покоя, минимум - эмоций" (Максимов 3)....They carried Olga out of the main door, covered with a stenciled hospital sheet, as though she were dead....Lyova became oblivious of everything else and drifted after his sister, shaking convulsively. "Olga, little sister, what is happening to you?"...[The doctor] took hold of the actor by a button on his raincoat. "You shouldn't be here, my dear man. You're on the verge yourself. Maximum of quiet, minimum of excitement..." (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на волос
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I• НА ВОЛОС; НА ВОЛОСОК both obs[PrepP; these forms only]=====1. [adv or modif; often preceded by хоть]⇒ (even) a little:- [in limited contexts](even) by a hairbreadth (a hairs-breadth etc).♦ "...Захочу ли я хоть на волос стеснять твою жизнь, твои привычки?" (Тургенев 2). "...Would I want to interfere, even in the slightest way, with your life, with your habits?" (2d).♦...Штольц не мог уловить у ней на лице и в словах... даже искры чувства, которое хоть бы на волос выходило за границы тёплой, сердечной, но обыкновенной дружбы (Гончаров 1)....Stolz was unable to detect in her face or her words...a spark of feeling which by a hairbreadth exceeded the limits of warm, affectionate, but ordinary friendship (1b).2. [adv (intensif); used with negated verbs]⇒ not at all:- [in limited contexts] not by (so much as) a hairbreadth.II• НА ВОЛОСОК <НА ВОЛОСКЕ, НА ВОЛОС obs> от чего[PrepP; these forms only; subj-compl with copula (subj: usu. human or collect; prep obj: usu. от смерти, от гибели etc; usu. used with past verbs]=====⇒ one is very close (to death, ruin etc) (if used with a past-form verb, refers to danger or trouble that one has managed to avoid):- X был на волосок от Y-a ≈ X was within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc, an inch, a whisker) of Y;- X was on the verge (of Y).♦ Ужасной была поездка в Москву по вызову Ярославского. Вот когда я была на волосок от самоубийства! (Гинзбург 1). The journey back to Moscow at Yaroslavsky's summons was terrible. I was within a hair's breadth of suicide (1a).♦...Из парадного вынесли Ольгу, покрытую, как покойница, клеймёной больничной простынёй, и... Лёва, враз забыв обо всём, судорожно потянулся к сестре: "Олюшка, как же это ты?"...Но [врач] взял актёра за пуговицу плаша: "Вам, милый, не следует здесь находиться. Вы сами на волосок от этого. Максимум покоя, минимум - эмоций" (Максимов 3)....They carried Olga out of the main door, covered with a stenciled hospital sheet, as though she were dead....Lyova became oblivious of everything else and drifted after his sister, shaking convulsively. "Olga, little sister, what is happening to you?"...[The doctor] took hold of the actor by a button on his raincoat. "You shouldn't be here, my dear man. You're on the verge yourself. Maximum of quiet, minimum of excitement..." (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на волосок
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20 на волоске
• НА ВОЛОСОК <НА ВОЛОСКЕ, НА ВОЛОС obs> от чего[PrepP; these forms only; subj-compl with copula (subj: usu. human or collect; prep obj: usu. от смерти, от гибели etc; usu. used with past verbs]=====⇒ one is very close (to death, ruin etc) (if used with a past-form verb, refers to danger or trouble that one has managed to avoid):- X был на волосок от Y-a ≈ X was within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc, an inch, a whisker) of Y;- X was on the verge (of Y).♦ Ужасной была поездка в Москву по вызову Ярославского. Вот когда я была на волосок от самоубийства! (Гинзбург 1). The journey back to Moscow at Yaroslavsky's summons was terrible. I was within a hair's breadth of suicide (1a).♦...Из парадного вынесли Ольгу, покрытую, как покойница, клеймёной больничной простынёй, и... Лёва, враз забыв обо всём, судорожно потянулся к сестре: "Олюшка, как же это ты?"...Но [врач] взял актёра за пуговицу плаша: "Вам, милый, не следует здесь находиться. Вы сами на волосок от этого. Максимум покоя, минимум - эмоций" (Максимов 3)....They carried Olga out of the main door, covered with a stenciled hospital sheet, as though she were dead....Lyova became oblivious of everything else and drifted after his sister, shaking convulsively. "Olga, little sister, what is happening to you?"...[The doctor] took hold of the actor by a button on his raincoat. "You shouldn't be here, my dear man. You're on the verge yourself. Maximum of quiet, minimum of excitement..." (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на волоске
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by the skin of one's teeth — {adv. phr.} By a narrow margin; with no room to spare; barely. * /The drowning man struggled, and I got him to land by the skin of my teeth./ * /She passed English by the skin of her teeth./ Compare: SQUEAK THROUGH, WITHIN AN ACE OF or WITHIN AN… … Dictionary of American idioms
by the skin of one's teeth — {adv. phr.} By a narrow margin; with no room to spare; barely. * /The drowning man struggled, and I got him to land by the skin of my teeth./ * /She passed English by the skin of her teeth./ Compare: SQUEAK THROUGH, WITHIN AN ACE OF or WITHIN AN… … Dictionary of American idioms
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the skin of one's teeth — phrasal : a very narrow margin escaped by the skin of my teeth Job 19:20 (Revised Standard Version) … Useful english dictionary
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by\ the\ skin\ of\ one's\ teeth — adv. phr. By a narrow margin; with no room to spare; barely. The drowning man struggled, and I got him to land by the skin of my teeth. She passed English by the skin of her teeth. Compare: squeak through, within an ace of or within an inch of … Словарь американских идиом
by the skin of one's teeth — If you manage to do something by the skin of your teeth, you succeed in doing it but you almost fail. The traffic was so heavy I thought I d miss the train, but I caught it by the skin of my teeth … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
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