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681 fly high
(fly high (реже fly a high pitch, fly at high game или fly one's kite high))высоко заноситься, быть честолюбивым; лелеять честолюбивые мечты‘He told me last summer that I was doing better and he'd let me exhibit this year.’ ‘Not in this place, surely?’ ‘Of course not. The Salon.’ ‘You fly high.’ (R. Kipling, ‘The Light That Failed’, ch. V) — - Прошлым летом он сказал, что я работаю лучше и что в этом году он позволит мне выставляться. - Не здесь, конечно! - Разумеется, нет, в Салоне. - Ишь ты, размечтался!
Napoleon: "...I hope I have not been making you feel ambitious." Lieutenant: "Not at all: I don't fly so high." (B. Shaw, ‘The Man of Destiny’) — Наполеон: "...Надеюсь, я не пробудил в вас честолюбивых мечтаний." Лейтенант: "Совсем нет. Я высоко не заношусь."
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