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ирон.(have a soul above buttons (позднее above smth.))презирать свою профессию; считать себя выше чего-л. [выражение have a soul above buttons создано драматургом Дж. Колманом Младшим (G. Colman, the Younger (1762 - 1836)); см. цитату]My father was an eminent button maker... but I had a soul above buttons... (G. Colman, the Younger, ‘Sylvester Daggerwood’, 1795, HBQ) — Мой отец был замечательным пуговичным мастером... но у меня душа не лежала к этому делу. Я считал себя выше этого...
But my father, who was a clergyman of the Church of England... had a lucrative living and a "soul above buttons", if his son had not. (Fr. Marryat, ‘Peter Sample’, ch. I) — Но мой отец, который был служителем англиканской церкви... и имел приличный доход, был неудовлетворен своей профессией, чего нельзя сказать о его сыне.
He had a soul above these petty things. (P. G. Wodehouse, ‘French Leave’, ch. 2) — Старый Ник был выше этих мелочей.
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