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fear sees danger everywhere

  • 1 у страха глаза велики

    1) Set phrase: cowards die many times before their death (said about a person who sees danger where there is none, gives way to fear without reason), fear has big eyes

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  • 2 у страха глаза велики

    посл.
    lit. fear has big eyes; fear is liable to make one see all sorts of things; fear takes molehills for mountains; fear breeds terror; fear sees danger everywhere; faint hearts see danger lurking even where is none

    Глухая пора листопада, / Последних гусей косяки, / Расстраиваться не надо: / У страха глаза велики. (Б. Пастернак, Иней) — Dead season of dead leaves falling, / The last flocks of geese in the skies. / There's no need to feel uneasy: / Fear has enormous eyes.

    У страха глаза велики. Да и не тот у Барклая глаз, что у Багратиона. И князь Пётр Иванович решился выяснить, чего именно боится Барклай. (С. Голубов, Багратион) — Faint hearts see danger lurking even when there is none. Not so Bagrattion! At last Prince Peter determined to ascertain what it was precisely that Barclay feared.

    Во всяком случае, можно поручиться, что близ заимки, близ дороги никого нет. И не может быть в такое время. А у страха глаза велики. Не надо, однако, настраивать себя на всякие ужасы. (П. Нилин, Жестокость) — It was certain, at any rate, that there was no one near the farmsteads and out along the road. How could there be at such a time? Why work oneself up that way? Fear is liable to make one see all sorts of things.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > у страха глаза велики

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