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1 подбитый ветром
разг.1) ( не предохраняющий от холода) light; flimsy (of a poor, thin coat)Я за окном услышал хруст шагов - / Идёт румяный человек в ушанке. / Как молод он! Как щёки разгорелись / От холода! Журнал зажат под мышкой... / Пальто подбито ветром. (В. Луговской, Середина века) — I hear the crunch of footsteps on the snow outside. / A man is walking past. How vigorous his stride! / How young! How red his cheeks, how bright his eyes! / He seems to scorn the cold, his coat's so light. / He's carrying a rolled-up magazine.
2) (пустой, легкомысленный, ветреный) empty-headed; frivolous; feather-brainЧацкий.
А Гильоме, француз, подбитый ветерком? Он не женат ещё? (А. Грибоедов, Горе от ума) — Chatsky: And Guillaumet, that feather-brain from France, - isn't he married yet?Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > подбитый ветром
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2 ветер
м.wind; ( лёгкий) breezeвстречный ветер — head / contrary wind
штормовой ветер — gale, gale-strength wind
попутный ветер — fair wind, tail-wind
боковой ветер — lateral wind, cross-wind
крепкий ветер мор. — high wind, half a gale
очень крепкий ветер мор. — fresh gale
свежий ветер — fresh wind; мор. fresh breeze
слабый ветер — light wind, gentle breeze
тихий ветер мор. — light air
ветер поднялся, стих — the wind has risen, has dropped
против ветра — against the wind; in the wind's eye идиом., in the teeth of the wind идиом.
по ветру — before the wind, down wind
под ветром мор. — leeward; (защищённый от ветра чем-л.) under the lee of
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бросать слова на ветер — talk / speak* at random, или idly, waste one's breathподбитый ветром разг. — ( легкомысленный) empty-headed, frivolous; (без подкладки, холодный) light, flimsy
у него ветер в голове — he is a giddy-pate / feather-brain, he is a thoughtless fellow
кто сеет ветер, пожнёт бурю — sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
знать, куда ветер дует — see*, или find* out, which way the wind blows
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3 ветреная голова
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ветреная голова
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4 пролётная голова
уст., неодобр.rolling stone ( of a person); feather-brain[Капитан Копейкин,] пролётная голова,... побывал и на гауптвахтах и под арестом, всего отведал. (Н. Гоголь, Мёртвые души) — Captain Kopeikin, a true rolling stone,... in his time tasted of guardhouses and arrests and knew a thing or two.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > пролётная голова
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5 с ветерком в голове
неодобр., пренебр.light-minded, thoughtless; frivolous; feather-brain- Некоторые военные начальники по характеру вроде тебя: со сквозняком в голове. (М. Шолохов, Они сражались за Родину) — 'There are certain commanders who are like you. They are also light-minded by nature.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > с ветерком в голове
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6 вертопрах
1) General subject: feather pate, feather-pate, featherbrain, lighthead, scatter-brain, shatter brain, feather-head2) Colloquial: scatterbrain, airhead -
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1) General subject: bemuse, bewilder, daze, dumbfound, dumfound, hit to pieces (кого-л.), knock all of a heap, knock down with a feather, knock eyes out (особ. женской красотой; кого-л.), knock for six, knock off his pins (кого-л.), knock out, knock somebody off his pins, make brain reel (кого-л.), mind blow, overwhelm, perplex, petrify, rattle, set agape, stagger, strike all of a heap, strike all of a heap (кого-л.), stun, stupefy, take aback, transfix, wow, zonk, knock cold, take measures to take aback, strike with dismay (кого-л.), knock eyes out (кого-л., особ. женской красотой), knock off his pins (потрясти, ошарашить, кого-л.), gobsmack, (кого-л.)(фигур.) knock someone senseless2) Literal: numb3) Jargon: zap, lke a ton of bricks4) Graphic expression: blindsided -
8 вертопрах
scatterbrain имя существительное:featherbrain (вертопрах, пустой человек)feather-pate (вертопрах, пустой человек)shatter-brain (вертопрах, легкомысленный человек)
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