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go upon another tack

  • 1 изменить курс

    1) General subject: change tack
    3) Military: alter course
    6) Yachting: alter the course

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > изменить курс

  • 2 пойти по другому пути

    1) General subject: change tack
    2) Diplomatic term: take a different road

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > пойти по другому пути

  • 3 Н-102

    НА ЖИВУЮ НИТКУ coll PrepP Invar adv fixed WO
    1. сшить, сметать что -\Н-102 to sew sth. together lightly, just so it holds together
    baste
    tack stitch together loosely.
    В то время как она (Наташа), надев смётанный на живую нитку еще без рукавов лиф и загибая голову, гляделась в зеркало, как сидит спинка, она услыхала в гостиной оживленные звуки голоса отца и другого, женского голоса... (Толстой 5). She (Natasha) had just put on a bodice that was basted together but still without sleeves, and was turning her head to see in the glass how it fitted, when she heard in the drawing room the animated sounds of her father's voice and another's-a woman's.. (5a).
    2. - построить, сколотить, сделать что (to build, make sth., put sth. together) carelessly, flimsily: (build sth. (put sth. together)) shoddily (hastily, any old way, in a slipshod manner)
    knock (slap) sth. together haphazardly hook sth. together jerry-build sth.
    Шагали, шагали и натолкнулись на занесенные снегом развалины - цель нашего путешествия - остатки кирпичного завода. Он был сотворен «на живую нитку», по-лагерному (Иоффе 1). We walked on and on and finally came upon the snow-covered ruins, the goal of our journey-the remains of the brickworks. It had been constructed in camp-style-hastily... (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Н-102

  • 4 на живую нитку

    [PrepP; Invar; adv; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. сшить, сметать что to sew sth. together lightly, just so it holds together:
    - tack;
    - stitch together loosely.
         ♦ В то время как она [Наташа], надев смётанный на живую нитку еще без рукавов лиф и загибая голову, гляделась в зеркало, как сидит спинка, она услыхала в гостиной оживленные звуки голоса отца и другого, женского голоса... (Толстой 5). She [Natasha] had just put on a bodice that was basted together but still without sleeves, and was turning her head to see in the glass how it fitted, when she heard in the drawing room the animated sounds of her father's voice and another s-a woman's.. (5a).
    2. на живую нитку построить, сколотить, сделать что (to build, make sth., put sth. together) carelessly, flimsily:
    - (build sth. <put sth. together>) shoddily (hastily, any old way, in a slipshod manner);
    - knock (slap) sth. together;
    - haphazardly hook sth. together;
    - jerry-build sth.
         ♦ Шагали, шагали и натолкнулись на занесенные снегом развалины - цель нашего путешествия - остатки кирпичного завода. Он был сотворен "на живую нитку", по-лагерному (Иоффе 1). We walked on and on and finally came upon the snow-covered ruins, the goal of our journey-the remains of the brickworks. It had been constructed in camp-style - hastily... (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на живую нитку

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