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1) General subject: dub, fumbler, muff, simp, simple, slob, spoon, blunderer, easy touch, soft touch2) Colloquial: Sad Sack (особ. о солдате), a boob, an oaf (неуклюжий, неловкий, непрактичный человек an awkward, clumsy, impractical person), clutz, simpleton, stumblebum3) University: wooden spoon5) Taboo: bun-duster (см. bun), simple shit -
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НЕДОТЁПА разг.a boob / an oaf неуклюжий, неловкий, непрактичный человек an awkward, clumsy, impractical person -
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РЫЦАРЬ ПЕЧАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗА lit, usu. said with good-natured irony NP more often sing fixed WOa person who is magnanimous and idealistic, but very naive and impracticalknight of the rueful (doleful) countenance.From an appellation given to Don Quixote in Miguel de Cervantes's novel of that title, 1605. -
4 рыцарь печального образа
• РЫЦАРЬ ПЕЧАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗА lit, usu. said with good-natured irony[NP; more often sing; fixed WO]=====⇒ a person who is magnanimous and idealistic, but very naive and impractical:- knight of the rueful (doleful) countenance.—————← From an appellation given to Don Quixote in Miguel de Cervantes's novel of that title, 1605.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > рыцарь печального образа
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