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  • 1 дела как сажа бела

    1) Set phrase: things are as all right as soot is white, things are as bad as they can be, things couldn't be worse (things could be better. used ironically or jocularly as a reply to the question,,как дела?" ("how are things?"))
    2) American English: [things are so bad or so awful, that it] couldn't get any worse

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > дела как сажа бела

  • 2 Р-212

    ИЗ РУК BOH coll PrepP Invar fixed WO
    1. \Р-212 плохой, плохо, скверный, скверно и т. п. ( modif (intensif)) (used to emphasize the highest degree of some negative quality or characteristic) very, extremely (bad, poorly)
    incredibly (terribly, hopelessly, outrageously) (bad (poorly))
    I when the equivalent incorporates the AdjP or AdvP that follows) as bad as (bad) can be couldn't be (any) worse terrible (-bly) awful(ly) wretched(ly) abominable (-bly)
    дела (чьи, кого) из рук вон плохи (обстоят из рук вон плохо) = (in limited contexts) things have hit (fallen to) rock bottom (for s.o.)
    (often in refer, to a gravely ill person) s.o. is in a (very) bad way.
    Стихи, разумеется, были из рук вон плохи... (Максимов 2). His poems were, of course, incredibly bad... (2a).
    ...Сталин говорил с ним грубо, упрекал Берию в том, что руководимая им служба работает из рук вон плохо... (Войнович 4)....Stalin had spoken harshly to him..., reproaching Beria that his organization could not be doing any worse... (4a).
    Нет, конечно, сомнения, что Бородавкин мог избежать многих весьма важных ошибок. Так, например, эпизод, которому летописец присвоил название «слепорода», - из рук вон плох (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). There is, of course, no doubt that Wartkin could have avoided many great errors. Thus, for example, the episode on which the chronicler conferred the name Bornblind—that was awful (1a).
    ...(Ефим) спросил, что я думаю об общем построении романа, о том, как это написано. Написано это было, как всегда, из рук вон плохо... (Войнович 6)....(Yefim) asked what I thought of the overall structure of the novel, and of the writing. The writing, as always, was abominable (6a).
    Из всего выходило, что дела Андрея из рук вон плохи... (Максимов 3). What it all came to was that Andrei was in a very bad way... (3a).
    Воспитание его было поставлено из рук вон плохо... (Стругацкие4). ( context transl) His education had been grossly neglected... (4a).
    2. это (же (уж, совсем и т. п. - Interj) this is entirely unacceptable, cannot be tolerated
    that's (this is) (really) too much!
    that's the limit! that's (this is) unthinkable (beyond anything)!
    Снял мой полицейский офицер сапоги... «Вытрясите их и вычистите». - «Это из рук вон!» (Герцен 2). My police-officer took off the boots. "Knock the dirt off and polish them." "That's really too much!" (2a).
    «Что ты, писал, назначил время?» -«Ничего не писал». - «Помилуй, братец, да что же мы с тобой сделаем? Это из рук вон, это белая горячка!» (Герцен 1). "Have you written? Have you fixed a time?" "I have written nothing." "Upon my word, my boy, but what are we to do with you? It's beyond anything, it's raving madness!" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Р-212

  • 3 из рук вон

    • ИЗ РУК BOH coll
    [PrepP; Invar; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. из рук вон плохой, плохо, скверный, скверно и т.п. [modif (intensif)]
    ⇒ (used to emphasize the highest degree of some negative quality or characteristic) very, extremely (bad, poorly):
    - incredibly (terribly, hopelessly, outrageously) (bad < poorly>);
    - [when the equivalent incorporates the AdjP or AdvP that follows] as bad as (bad) can be;
    || дела( чьи, кого) из рук вон плохи (обстоят из рук вон плохо) ≈ [in limited contexts] things have hit (fallen to) rock bottom (for s.o.);
    - [often in refer, to a gravely ill person] s.o. is in a (very) bad way.
         ♦ Стихи, разумеется, были из рук вон плохи... (Максимов 2). His poems were, of course, incredibly bad... (2a).
         ♦...Сталин говорил с ним грубо, упрекал Берию в том, что руководимая им служба работает из рук вон плохо... (Войнович 4)....Stalin had spoken harshly to him..., reproaching Beria that his organization could not be doing any worse... (4a).
         ♦ Нет, конечно, сомнения, что Бородавкин мог избежать многих весьма важных ошибок. Так, например, эпизод, которому летописец присвоил название "слепорода", - из рук вон плох (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). There is, of course, no doubt that Wartkin could have avoided many great errors. Thus, for example, the episode on which the chronicler conferred the name Bornblind-that was awful (1a).
         ♦...[Ефим] спросил, что я думаю об общем построении романа, о том, как это написано. Написано это было, как всегда, из рук вон плохо... (Войнович 6)....[Yefim] asked what I thought of the overall structure of the novel, and of the writing. The writing, as always, was abominable (6a).
         ♦ Из всего выходило, что дела Андрея из рук вон плохи... (Максимов 3). What it all came to was that Andrei was in a very bad way... (3a).
         ♦ Воспитание его было поставлено из рук вон плохо... (Стругацкие 4). [context transl] His education had been grossly neglected... (4a).
    2. это (же <уж, совсем и т. п.>) - ! [Interj]
    ⇒ this is entirely unacceptable, cannot be tolerated:
    - that's (this is) (really) too much!;
    - that's the limit!;
    - that's (this is) unthinkable (beyond anything)!
         ♦ Снял мой полицейский офицер сапоги... "Вытрясите их и вычистите". - "Это из рук вон!" (Герцен 2). My police-officer took off the boots. "Knock the dirt off and polish them." "That's really too much!" (2a).
         ♦ "Что ты, писал, назначил время?" - "Ничего не писал". - "Помилуй, братец, да что же мы с тобой сделаем? Это из рук вон, это белая горячка!" (Герцен 1). "Have you written? Have you fixed a time?" "I have written nothing." "Upon my word, my boy, but what are we to do with you? It's beyond anything, it's raving madness!" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > из рук вон

  • 4 как сажа бела

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > как сажа бела

  • 5 Г-442

    НИ ГУГУ coll Invar
    1. ( usu. predic with subj: human or collect
    usu. used in present or past contexts because of the absence of a verb in Russian, the tense of the verb in the English equivalent must be determined by the context) one keeps silent, does not say anything
    X ни ryry = (past context) X didn't say ( breathe) a word
    X didn't make ( utter, let out) a (one) peep X kept mum there wasn't ( s.o. didn't hear) a peep (a sound, a word) from (out of) X.
    ...Они здесь только покурить: дыма табачного в рот наберут, ни гугу (Ерофеев 3)....They just went out there for a smoke, took a drag or two of tobacco smoke into their lungs, and never made a peep (3a).
    ...(Местная газета «Большевистские темпы») печатала чёрт-те чего, а о пропавшем Учреждении -ни гугу (Войнович 2)....(The local newspaper Bolshevik Tempos) was printing all sorts of rubbish, but that the Institution had vanished, not one peep (2a).
    2. от кого, откуда \Г-442 ( subj (with не бытье)) there has been no news, letter, response from some person or organization: от X-a ни гугу — there hasn't been a (any) word from X
    there is no word from X person Y hasn't heard a thing from X.
    3. \Г-442 (кому о ком-чём) (used as imper
    do not tell anyone (or a certain person) about sth.
    X-y (никому) (об Y-e) ни гугу = don't (you mustn't) say (breathe) a word to X (to anyone) (about Y)
    not a word to X (to anyone) (about Y) don't (you mustn't) make (utter) a peep (a sound) to X (about Y) keep mum (about Y).
    Говоря строго между нами, только уж ты, профессор, об этом никому ни гугу, - я соврал тебе давеча про наше хорошее положение. Положение у нас хуже некуда (Терц 6). Strictly between ourselves-but you really mustn't breathe a word, Professor-1 told you a lie when I said that things were not as bad as they might be. The fact is, they couldn't be worse (6a).
    У меня гениальная идея, сказал Претендент, и они перешли на шепот. Только никому ни гугу, сказал Претендент (Зиновьев 1). "I've had a marvellous idea," said Claimant, and the rest of the conversation was held in whispers. "Not a word to anyone," said Claimant (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Г-442

  • 6 ни гугу

    • НИ ГУГУ coll
    [Invar]
    =====
    1. [usu. predic with subj: human or collect; usu. used in present or past contexts; because of the absence of a verb in Russian, the tense of the verb in the English equivalent must be determined by the context]
    ⇒ one keeps silent, does not say anything:
    - X ни гугу≈ [past context] X didn't say < breathe> a word;
    - X didn't make <utter, let out> a < one> peep;
    - there wasn't < s.o. didn't hear> a peep <a sound, a word> from < out of> X.
         ♦...Они здесь только покурить: дыма табачного в рот наберут, ни гугу (Ерофеев 3)....They just went out there for a smoke, took a drag or two of tobacco smoke into their lungs, and never made a peep (3a).
         ♦...[Местная газета "Большевистские темпы"] печатала чёрт-те чего, а о пропавшем Учреждении - ни гугу (Войнович 2)....[The local newspaper Bolshevik Tempos] was printing all sorts of rubbish, but that the Institution had vanished, not one peep (2a).
    2. от кого, откуда ни гугу [subj (with не быть)]
    ⇒ there has been no news, letter, response from some person or organization:
    - от X-a ни гугу≈ there hasn't been a < any> word from X;
    - person Y hasn't heard a thing from X.
    3. ни гугу (кому о ком-чём) [used as imper]
    ⇒ do not tell anyone (or a certain person) about sth.:
    - X-у (никому) (об Y-e) ни гугу≈ don't (you mustn't) say (breathe) a word to X (to anyone) (about Y);
    - keep mum (about Y).
         ♦ Говоря строго между нами, только уж ты, профессор, об этом никому ни гугу, - я соврал тебе давеча про наше хорошее положение. Положение у нас хуже некуда (Терц 6). Strictly between ourselves-but you really mustn't breathe a word, Professor - I told you a lie when I said that things were not as bad as they might be. The fact is, they couldn't be worse (6a).
         ♦ У меня гениальная идея, сказал Претендент, и они перешли на шепот. Только никому ни гугу, сказал Претендент (Зиновьев 1). "I've had a marvellous idea," said Claimant, and the rest of the conversation was held in whispers. "Not a word to anyone," said Claimant (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ни гугу

  • 7 хоть

    1) частица (даже; если хотите) even; if you like или не переводится

    хоть сейча́с — (even) now; at once if you like

    мо́жете жа́ловаться хоть президе́нту — you may complain to the president (if you like)

    е́сли не для него́, то хоть для его́ това́рища — if not for him, (then) at least for his friend

    для э́той рабо́ты ему́ ну́жно хоть два дня — he needs at least two days for that work [to do the job]

    хоть и по́здно, он всё же придёт — late as it is he is sure to come

    хоть... хоть (+ повелит. накл.) разг. — whether... or

    хоть спра́ва к нему́ зайди́, хоть сле́ва — whether you approach it [him] from the right or from the left

    ••

    хоть бы он поскоре́й пришёл! — I wish he came soon; if only he would come!

    хоть бы что — 1) (дт.; безразлично, неважно) nothing (to) 2) ( ничего не стоит) make nothing of (+ subject); (дт.; + инф.) think nothing (+ subject; of ger)

    э́то ему́ хоть бы что — that is nothing to him; he doesn't care; he is none the worse for it; it's like water off a duck's back with him идиом.

    ему́ хоть бы что пройти́ два́дцать киломе́тров — he thinks nothing of walking twenty kilometres

    хоть вы́жми / выжима́й — wringing wet

    хоть куда́ — 1) прост. ( куда угодно) anywhere, (to) any place 2) предик. разг. (хорош, без изъянов) splendid, top, first-rate, first-class; good in every respect

    он па́рень хоть куда́ — he is a capital / first-class / fine fellow; he is a fine figure of a man

    не могу́ развяза́ть э́тот у́зел, хоть плачь — I can't undo this knot, no matter how hard I try

    хоть стой, хоть па́дай прост. — it really gets you down; it beats everything

    хоть убе́й — for the life of me

    хоть убе́й, не зна́ю разг. — I couldn't tell you for the life of me

    не могу́ сде́лать э́то, хоть убе́й! разг. — I can't do it for the life of me!

    Новый большой русско-английский словарь > хоть

  • 8 семь потов сошло

    ( с кого) прост., реже: сорок потов сошло ( с кого)
    smb. has worked up seven sweats doing smth.; smb. must have sweated blood over smth.; smb. has got into a lather of sweat

    - Уж он выбирал, выбирал пиджак - сорок потов с него сошло! Попробует сукно на зуб, поглядит на свет: не побили ли шашел или моль, минут десять мнёт в чёрных пальцах. (М. Шолохов, Поднятая целина) — 'And choose that jacket he did - he must have sweated blood over it! First he tried the cloth with his teeth, then held it up to the light to see if there were any moth holes in it, then crushed it in his black fingers for ten minutes or more.'

    Участковый, тучный, лысый, снял фуражку, стёр лоб, отдуваясь: - Живёте тоже! Срам! От неба первый этаж. Пока лезли, семь потов сошло. На воздушном шаре к вам летать надо. (С. Мстиславский, Грач - птица весенняя) — The inspector, who was fat and bald, took off his cap and wiped his forehead. 'You couldn't have picked a worse place to live in,' he panted. 'It's scandalous! First floor from the sky. I worked up seven sweats climbing your infernal stairs. You need a baloon to get here.'

    Этот последний бродок тоже был не приведи господь. Жижа, что овсяный кисель: и ногу не держит и поплыть не даёт. Пока её распихаешь, чтоб вперёд продвинуться, семь потов сойдёт. (Б. Васильев, А зори здесь тихие...) — This last stretch was a terrible business, too. It was the consistency of porridge, not thick enough to provide a footing, not thin enough to swim in. Sloshing through it you got into a lather of sweat.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > семь потов сошло

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