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chatter away

  • 1 растрезвонить

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  • 2 П-144

    ПЁЧКИ-ЛАВОЧКИ substand NP pl only)
    1. trifles, unimportant things
    this and that
    nothing in particular.
    "О чём вы с ней говорили?» - подозрительно спросил Паниковский. «Так, ни о чём, печки-лавочки», - ответил Остап (Ильф и Петров 2). "What were you talking about?" Pani-kovsky asked suspiciously. "Oh, this and that" Ostap replied (2a).
    2. (to engage in) empty talk: (engage in) idle chatter
    (be) chattering (gabbing, chitchatting, yakking etc) chatter away.
    Хватит печки-лавочки разводить, пора за дело приниматься. Quit your yakking, it's time to get down to work.
    3. \П-144 у кого с кем a close acquaintanceship
    buddy-buddy relationship
    getting chummy (with s.o.).

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  • 3 печки-лавочки

    [NP; pl only]
    =====
    1. trifles, unimportant things:
    - nothing in particular.
         ♦ "О чём вы с ней говорили?" - подозрительно спросил Паниковский. "Так, ни о чём, печки-лавочки", - ответил Остап (Ильф и Петров 2). "What were you talking about?" Panikovsky asked suspiciously. "Oh, this and that" Ostap replied (2a).
    2. (to engage in) empty talk:
    - (be) chattering (gabbing, chitchatting, yakking etc);
    - chatter away.
         ♦ Хватит печки-лавочки разводить, пора за дело приниматься. Quit your yakking, it's time to get down to work.
    3. печки-лавочки у кого с кем a close acquaintanceship:
    - getting chummy (with s.o.).

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  • 4 С-497

    КАК СОРОКА трещать, болтать и т. п. coll (как + NP nom only adv
    (to talk) loudly, quickly, and too much: (chatter away) like a magpie
    (talk) without coming up for air (in limited contexts) (talk) a mile a minute (talk) a blue streak.
    Под хохот публики легкомысленные жены обманывали ворчливых дураков-мужей, и фарсовые сводницы-кумушки тарахтели как сороки (Булгаков 5). То the wild laughter of the audience, frivolous wives deceived their grumbling, stupid husbands, and comic bawds chattered away like magpies (5a).

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  • 5 как сорока

    • КАК СОРОКА трещать, болтать и т. п. coll
    [ как + NP; nom only; adv]
    =====
    ⇒ (to talk) loudly, quickly, and too much:
    - [in limited contexts] (talk) a mile a minute;
    - (talk) a blue streak.
         ♦ Под хохот публики легкомысленные жены обманывали ворчливых дураков-мужей, и фарсовые сводницы-кумушки тарахтели как сороки (Булгаков 5). То the wild laughter of the audience, frivolous wives deceived their grumbling, stupid husbands, and comic bawds chattered away like magpies (5a).

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  • 6 Я-25

    РАЗВЯЗЫВАТЬ/РАЗВЯЗАТЬ ЯЗЫК coll VP
    1. - кому ( subj: abstr or a noun denoting an alcoholic beverage) to encourage, induce a person to begin talking, speak freely, without reservation
    X развязал язык Y-y = X loosened Y% tongue.
    Выпитое ли вино, или потребность откровенности, или мысль, что этот человек не знает и не узнает никого из действующих лиц его истории, или всё вместе развязало язык Пьеру. И он... рассказал всю свою историю: и свою женитьбу, и историю любви Наташи к его лучшему другу, и её измену, и все свои несложные отношения к ней (Толстой 6). Whether it was the wine he had drunk or an impulse of frankness or the thought that this man did not, and never would, know any of those who played a part in his story, or whether it was all these things together, something loosened Pierre's tongue....He told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her (6a).
    2. - кому (subj: human to force, impel a person to speak, divulge a secret
    X развяжет Y-y язык - X will loosen Y's tongue
    X will make Y talk.
    3. (subj: human fearing punishment, reprisal, to speak after a silence and divulge some secret
    X развязал язык — X started talking
    (in limited contexts) X came clean.
    «Ещё раз повторяю вам, что на подобные вопросы отвечать не стану». - «На выбор: или ты, собака, сейчас же развяжешь язык, или через десять минут будешь поставлен к стенке! Ну?!» (Шолохов 5). "I repeat, I refuse to answer such questions." "You have the choice. Either you come clean, you dog, or in ten minutes from now we'll have you up against a wall! Now then?" (5a).
    4. often disapprov (subj: human to become talkative ( usu. after a silence), talk a great deal
    X развязал язык - X began to talk (a lot)
    X began to wag his tongue X began to jabber (chatter) away.

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  • 7 развязать язык

    • РАЗВЯЗЫВАТЬ/РАЗВЯЗАТЬ ЯЗЫК coll
    [VP]
    =====
    1. развязать язык кому [subj: abstr or a noun denoting an alcoholic beverage]
    ⇒ to encourage, induce a person to begin talking, speak freely, without reservation:
    - X развязал язык Y-y ≈ X loosened Y's tongue.
         ♦ Выпитое ли вино, или потребность откровенности, или мысль, что этот человек не знает и не узнает никого из действующих лиц его истории, или всё вместе развязало язык Пьеру. И он... рассказал всю свою историю: и свою женитьбу, и историю любви Наташи к его лучшему другу, и её измену, и все свои несложные отношения к ней (Толстой 6). Whether it was the wine he had drunk or an impulse of frankness or the thought that this man did not, and never would, know any of those who played a part in his story, or whether it was all these things together, something loosened Pierre's tongue....He told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her (6a).
    ⇒ to force, impel a person to speak, divulge a secret:
    - X развяжет Y-y язык≈ X will loosen Y's tongue;
    - X will make Y talk.
    3. [subj: human]
    ⇒ fearing punishment, reprisal, to speak after a silence and divulge some secret:
    - X развязал язык≈ X started talking;
    - [in limited contexts] X came clean.
         ♦ "Ещё раз повторяю вам, что на подобные вопросы отвечать не стану". - " На выбор: или ты, собака, сейчас же развяжешь язык, или через десять минут будешь поставлен к стенке! Ну?!" (Шолохов 5). "I repeat, I refuse to answer such questions." "You have the choice. Either you come clean, you dog, or in ten minutes from now we'll have you up against a wall! Now then?" (5a).
    4. often disapprov [subj: human]
    ⇒ to become talkative (usu. after a silence), talk a great deal:
    - X развязал язык≈ X began to talk (a lot);
    - X began to jabber (chatter) away.

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  • 8 развязывать язык

    • РАЗВЯЗЫВАТЬ/РАЗВЯЗАТЬ ЯЗЫК coll
    [VP]
    =====
    1. развязывать язык кому [subj: abstr or a noun denoting an alcoholic beverage]
    ⇒ to encourage, induce a person to begin talking, speak freely, without reservation:
    - X развязал язык Y-y ≈ X loosened Y's tongue.
         ♦ Выпитое ли вино, или потребность откровенности, или мысль, что этот человек не знает и не узнает никого из действующих лиц его истории, или всё вместе развязало язык Пьеру. И он... рассказал всю свою историю: и свою женитьбу, и историю любви Наташи к его лучшему другу, и её измену, и все свои несложные отношения к ней (Толстой 6). Whether it was the wine he had drunk or an impulse of frankness or the thought that this man did not, and never would, know any of those who played a part in his story, or whether it was all these things together, something loosened Pierre's tongue....He told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her (6a).
    ⇒ to force, impel a person to speak, divulge a secret:
    - X развяжет Y-y язык≈ X will loosen Y's tongue;
    - X will make Y talk.
    3. [subj: human]
    ⇒ fearing punishment, reprisal, to speak after a silence and divulge some secret:
    - X развязал язык≈ X started talking;
    - [in limited contexts] X came clean.
         ♦ "Ещё раз повторяю вам, что на подобные вопросы отвечать не стану". - " На выбор: или ты, собака, сейчас же развяжешь язык, или через десять минут будешь поставлен к стенке! Ну?!" (Шолохов 5). "I repeat, I refuse to answer such questions." "You have the choice. Either you come clean, you dog, or in ten minutes from now we'll have you up against a wall! Now then?" (5a).
    4. often disapprov [subj: human]
    ⇒ to become talkative (usu. after a silence), talk a great deal:
    - X развязал язык≈ X began to talk (a lot);
    - X began to jabber (chatter) away.

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  • 9 болтать

    I
    1) (сов. взболта́ть) (вн.; перемешивать) stir (d)
    2) (тв.; качать) dangle (d)

    болта́ть нога́ми — dangle one's legs; ( в воде) dabble

    3) безл. разг. (о движении самолёта, судна) rock (d)
    ••

    болта́ть языко́м — wag one's tongue, clack, blab

    II разг.
    1) (говорить - быстро, несерьёзно) chatter, natter, gabble; (бестолково, невнятно) babble, jabber, twaddle; ( о детях) prattle

    болта́ть вздор — talk rubbish; drivel

    болта́ть глу́пости — talk nonsense

    что он там болта́ет? — what is he drivelling / blabbering about?; what's he (going) on about?

    3) (с тв.; непринуждённо беседовать) chat (with), have a chat (with)

    мы про́сто болта́ем о том о сём — we are just having a chat about all kinds of things

    она́ полдня́ болта́ла с сосе́дями — she spent half the day gabbling away with her neighbours

    переста́ньте болта́ть во вре́мя уро́ка! — stop chattering in class!

    5) неодобр. (говорить то, что не следует) blab, blabber

    не доверя́й ему́, он болта́ет ли́шнее — don't confide in him because he blabs

    поме́ньше бы ты болта́л! — I wish you weren't such a blabbermouth!

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  • 10 Б-87

    БОБЫ РАЗВОДИТЬ substand VP subj: human usu. this WO
    1. to waste one's time on trifles, act very slowly, procrastinate
    X бобы разводит - X fritters (fiddles) away the time
    (in limited contexts) X drags his feet.
    (author's usage) «Чем в губернское правление-то шататься да пустяки на бобах разводить, лучше бы дело делать!» (Салтыков-Щедрин 2). "Instead of wasting his time in government departments and frittering away the precious minutes on some stupid trifles, he (the pompadour) should have been doing something!" (2a).
    2. obsoles to talk about insignificant, frivolous matters (often in order to distract s.o. from sth.), engage in idle chatter
    X бобы разводит - X is prattling (on)
    X is babbling (in limited contexts) X is beating around (about) the bush
    X и Y бобы разводят - X and Y are gabbing
    X and Y are shooting the breeze (the bull).

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  • 11 бобы разводить

    [VP; subj: human; usu. this WO]
    =====
    1. to waste one's time on trifles, act very slowly, procrastinate:
    - X бобы разводит≈ X fritters (fiddles) away the time;
    - [in limited contexts] X drags his feet.
         ♦ [author's usage] "Чем в губернское правление-то шататься да пустяки на бобах разводить, лучше бы дело делать!" (Салтыков-Щедрин 2). "Instead of wasting his time in government departments and frittering away the precious minutes on some stupid trifles, he [the pompadour] should have been doing something!" (2a).
    2. obsoles to talk about insignificant, frivolous matters (often in order to distract s.o. from sth.), engage in idle chatter:
    - X бобы разводит≈ X is prattling (on);
    - [in limited contexts] X is beating around (about) the bush;
    - X and Y are shooting the breeze (the bull).

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  • 12 болтать

    1) General subject: babble, blab, blab (о чем-л.), blabber, blatter, bleat, buck, burble, cackle, chaffer, chat, chatter, chipper, clatter, confabulate, fan out, flap one's mouth, gab, gabble, gas, gossip, haver, jabber, mag, make chin music, natter, palaver, parleyvoo, peach, prate, prattle, quack, rattle, rattle along, rattle away, shake up, shoot off mouth, swing, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, tongue, troll, twaddle, twitter, waffle, wag, wag (языком), wiggle-waggle, yackety yak, yak, yak yak, yakety yak, yap, yarn, go on, make a small talk, wag chin, wag tongue (языком), clap
    2) Colloquial: blat, confab, confab (сокр. от confabulate), cosher, piffle, pill, prose, quacksalver, witter (Lingvo 9.0), sound off
    3) Dialect: knap
    5) Military: work the bolt
    6) Rare: chin
    7) British English: chin wag
    8) Australian slang: earbash, yabber
    9) Jargon: beat chops, beat gums, blob, chewed, chinwag, chop ( one's) teeth, fan, fan the breeze, flap (one's) jaw, flap (one's) jowls, flip (one's) up, jibber-jabber, schmoos, schmoose, shoot the breeze, yack, yackety-yak, yak-yak, yakety-yak, yatata yatata, yock, yuck, yuk, bowler, throw the crap, shoot the shit, dish, flap (one's) chops (jowls; jaw; lip), gum, open (one's) yap, shoot (someone) down, shoot (the) bull, wig
    10) Makarov: chipper (о детях), puddle (перемешивать), shake (взбалтывать), shake up (взбалтывать), stir (перемешивать), waggle, chew the fat, dish up, flap about, flap chops, flap jaw, flap jowls, flap mouth, flip lip
    11) Taboo: shoot the crap

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  • 13 болтать без умолку

    1) General subject: chatter, go on and on (She went on and on about her date, almost putting me to sleep.), harp on, rattle, talk away, talk by the hour, yammer, run off at the mouth
    2) Obsolete: run on pattens

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  • 14 тараторить

    2) Australian slang: yabber

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  • 15 Н-226

    HE КАЗАТЬ (HE ПОКАЗЫВАТЬ)/НЕ ПОКАЗАТЬ НОСА (-у) coll VP subj: human may be used without negation to convey the opposite meaning)
    1. - (куда, к кому) not to visit s.o. or go to some place
    X (к Y-y) носа не кажет - X doesn't show his face (at Y's place)
    X keeps away (from Y).
    "...Мне на службу носа нельзя будет показать, я и так уже третий день не езжу» (Булгаков 11)...1 won't be able to show my face at the office. I haven't gone in for three days as it is" (1 la).
    2. \Н-226\Н-226 откуда not to leave or look out of some place or kind of lodging
    X носа не показывал из места Y = X didn't poke his nose out (outside, outside the house, outside (of) place Y)
    X didn't poke his nose out of doors (of the house etc).
    В тот день под вечер ударил вдруг ветер сан-ташский, оттуда, с хребта поднебесного. Обрушился шквалом... Кое-как успели загнать скотину, убрать кое-что со двора, кое-как успели дров побольше наносить в дом. А потом уже и носа из дому не показывали (Айтматов 1). Towards evening of that same day, the San-Tash wind suddenly struck from up high on the mountain ridge which reached the sky. It whipped up into a tornado....Somehow, they managed to drive in the cattle and take in a few things from the yard, somehow they were able to carry an extra supply of firewood into the house. After this, no one poked his nose outside the house (1b).
    Он накрепко наказал Захару не сметь болтать с Никитой... а Анисье погрозил пальцем, когда она показала было нос из кухни и что-то хотела спросить Никиту (Гончаров 1). Не gave strict orders to Zakhar not to chatter with Nikita..and when Anisya poked her nose out of the kitchen to ask Nikita something, he shook a finger at her in warning (1b).

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  • 16 Я-29

    ТОЧИТЬ/ПОТОЧИТЬ ЯЗЫК highly coll (V?\ subj: human
    1. to engage in idle chatter
    X точит язык — X wags his tongue
    X shoots the breeze (the bull) X flaps his jaws (gums) X gabs (jabbers, chatters) away.
    По субботам у Марьи Семёновны собиралось небольшое дамское общество. За чашкой чая дамы точили языки, обсуждая последние городские новости. On Saturdays a small group of ladies would gather at Marya Semyonovna's home. Over tea they would wag their tongues, discussing the latest news of the city.
    2. \Я-29 на ком ( impfv only) to gossip maliciously, make snide or mocking remarks about s.o.: X точит язык на Y-e - X picks Y apart
    X makes sport (fun) of Y X makes Y the butt of X's ridicule (jokes).

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  • 17 не казать носа

    • НЕ КАЗАТЬ (НЕ ПОКАЗЫВАТЬ)/НЕ ПОКАЗАТЬ НОСА <-у> coll
    [VP; subj: human; may be used without negation to convey the opposite meaning]
    =====
    1. не казать носа (куда, к кому) not to visit s.o. or go to some place:
    - X (к Y-y) носа не кажет≈ X doesn't show his face (at Y's place);
    - X keeps away (from Y).
         ♦ "...Мне на службу носа нельзя будет показать, я и так уже третий день не езжу" (Булгаков 11)....I won't be able to show my face at the office. I haven't gone in for three days as it is" (11a).
    2. не казать носа откуда not to leave or look out of some place or kind of lodging:
    - X носа не показывал из места Y ≈ X didn't poke his nose out (outside, outside the house, outside (of) place Y);
    - X didn't poke his nose out of doors (of the house etc).
         ♦ В тот день под вечер ударил вдруг ветер сан-ташский, оттуда, с хребта поднебесного. Обрушился шквалом... Кое-как успели загнать скотину, убрать кое-что со двора, кое-как успели дров побольше наносить в дом. А потом уже и носа из дому не показывали (Айтматов 1). Towards evening of that same day, the San-Tash wind suddenly struck from up high on the mountain ridge which reached the sky. It whipped up into a tornado....Somehow, they managed to drive in the cattle and take in a few things from the yard; somehow they were able to carry an extra supply of firewood into the house. After this, no one poked his nose outside the house (1b).
         ♦ Он накрепко наказал Захару не сметь болтать с Никитой... а Анисье погрозил пальцем, когда она показала было нос из кухни и что-то хотела спросить Никиту (Гончаров 1). He gave strict orders to Zakhar not to chatter with Nikita..and when Anisya poked her nose out of the kitchen to ask Nikita something, he shook a finger at her in warning (1b).

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  • 18 не казать носу

    • НЕ КАЗАТЬ (НЕ ПОКАЗЫВАТЬ)/НЕ ПОКАЗАТЬ НОСА <-у> coll
    [VP; subj: human; may be used without negation to convey the opposite meaning]
    =====
    1. не казать носу (куда, к кому) not to visit s.o. or go to some place:
    - X (к Y-y) носа не кажет≈ X doesn't show his face (at Y's place);
    - X keeps away (from Y).
         ♦ "...Мне на службу носа нельзя будет показать, я и так уже третий день не езжу" (Булгаков 11)....I won't be able to show my face at the office. I haven't gone in for three days as it is" (11a).
    2. не казать носу откуда not to leave or look out of some place or kind of lodging:
    - X носа не показывал из места Y ≈ X didn't poke his nose out (outside, outside the house, outside (of) place Y);
    - X didn't poke his nose out of doors (of the house etc).
         ♦ В тот день под вечер ударил вдруг ветер сан-ташский, оттуда, с хребта поднебесного. Обрушился шквалом... Кое-как успели загнать скотину, убрать кое-что со двора, кое-как успели дров побольше наносить в дом. А потом уже и носа из дому не показывали (Айтматов 1). Towards evening of that same day, the San-Tash wind suddenly struck from up high on the mountain ridge which reached the sky. It whipped up into a tornado....Somehow, they managed to drive in the cattle and take in a few things from the yard; somehow they were able to carry an extra supply of firewood into the house. After this, no one poked his nose outside the house (1b).
         ♦ Он накрепко наказал Захару не сметь болтать с Никитой... а Анисье погрозил пальцем, когда она показала было нос из кухни и что-то хотела спросить Никиту (Гончаров 1). He gave strict orders to Zakhar not to chatter with Nikita..and when Anisya poked her nose out of the kitchen to ask Nikita something, he shook a finger at her in warning (1b).

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  • 19 не показать носа

    • НЕ КАЗАТЬ (НЕ ПОКАЗЫВАТЬ)/НЕ ПОКАЗАТЬ НОСА <-у> coll
    [VP; subj: human; may be used without negation to convey the opposite meaning]
    =====
    1. не показать носа (куда, к кому) not to visit s.o. or go to some place:
    - X (к Y-y) носа не кажет≈ X doesn't show his face (at Y's place);
    - X keeps away (from Y).
         ♦ "...Мне на службу носа нельзя будет показать, я и так уже третий день не езжу" (Булгаков 11)....I won't be able to show my face at the office. I haven't gone in for three days as it is" (11a).
    2. не показать носа откуда not to leave or look out of some place or kind of lodging:
    - X носа не показывал из места Y ≈ X didn't poke his nose out (outside, outside the house, outside (of) place Y);
    - X didn't poke his nose out of doors (of the house etc).
         ♦ В тот день под вечер ударил вдруг ветер сан-ташский, оттуда, с хребта поднебесного. Обрушился шквалом... Кое-как успели загнать скотину, убрать кое-что со двора, кое-как успели дров побольше наносить в дом. А потом уже и носа из дому не показывали (Айтматов 1). Towards evening of that same day, the San-Tash wind suddenly struck from up high on the mountain ridge which reached the sky. It whipped up into a tornado....Somehow, they managed to drive in the cattle and take in a few things from the yard; somehow they were able to carry an extra supply of firewood into the house. After this, no one poked his nose outside the house (1b).
         ♦ Он накрепко наказал Захару не сметь болтать с Никитой... а Анисье погрозил пальцем, когда она показала было нос из кухни и что-то хотела спросить Никиту (Гончаров 1). He gave strict orders to Zakhar not to chatter with Nikita..and when Anisya poked her nose out of the kitchen to ask Nikita something, he shook a finger at her in warning (1b).

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  • 20 не показать носу

    • НЕ КАЗАТЬ (НЕ ПОКАЗЫВАТЬ)/НЕ ПОКАЗАТЬ НОСА <-у> coll
    [VP; subj: human; may be used without negation to convey the opposite meaning]
    =====
    1. не показать носу (куда, к кому) not to visit s.o. or go to some place:
    - X (к Y-y) носа не кажет≈ X doesn't show his face (at Y's place);
    - X keeps away (from Y).
         ♦ "...Мне на службу носа нельзя будет показать, я и так уже третий день не езжу" (Булгаков 11)....I won't be able to show my face at the office. I haven't gone in for three days as it is" (11a).
    2. не показать носу откуда not to leave or look out of some place or kind of lodging:
    - X носа не показывал из места Y ≈ X didn't poke his nose out (outside, outside the house, outside (of) place Y);
    - X didn't poke his nose out of doors (of the house etc).
         ♦ В тот день под вечер ударил вдруг ветер сан-ташский, оттуда, с хребта поднебесного. Обрушился шквалом... Кое-как успели загнать скотину, убрать кое-что со двора, кое-как успели дров побольше наносить в дом. А потом уже и носа из дому не показывали (Айтматов 1). Towards evening of that same day, the San-Tash wind suddenly struck from up high on the mountain ridge which reached the sky. It whipped up into a tornado....Somehow, they managed to drive in the cattle and take in a few things from the yard; somehow they were able to carry an extra supply of firewood into the house. After this, no one poked his nose outside the house (1b).
         ♦ Он накрепко наказал Захару не сметь болтать с Никитой... а Анисье погрозил пальцем, когда она показала было нос из кухни и что-то хотела спросить Никиту (Гончаров 1). He gave strict orders to Zakhar not to chatter with Nikita..and when Anisya poked her nose out of the kitchen to ask Nikita something, he shook a finger at her in warning (1b).

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