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• ПОД СТАТЬ coll[PrepP; Invar]=====⇒ one is well-suited for s.o. with regard to certain qualities (skills, experience, personality etc):- X and Y are well (perfectly) matched.♦ Она и еще что-то думала вокруг этого, а вокруг этого оказался Мансуров-Курильский, человек, безусловно, бесталанный, но, в общем-то, не плохой и, следовательно, по всем статьям под стать ей самой... (Залыгин 1). Her thoughts turned around this question and lighted upon Mansurov-Kurilsky, a talentless man if ever there was one, but not a bad man, all in all, and therefore in every respect a good match for her (1a).⇒ sth. corresponds with something else:- X jibes < isin keeping> with Y;- X and Yagree;- X is as [AdjP] as Y.♦ Собачья погода была прямо под стать дяди-Митиному собачьему настроению (Аксёнов 10). The foul weather exactly matched Old Mitya's foul mood (10a).♦ Дни тянулись медленно, в химерах и воспоминаниях, в невесёлых, под стать погоде, думах о предстоящей жизни в лагере (Максимов 2). The days dragged slowly by, days spent in daydreams and memories, and in thoughts, cheerless as the weather, about the prospects of life in a prison camp (2a).⇒ a person (or thing) resembles another person (or thing):- X is similar (in nature) to Y.♦... Отец [Сергея] когда-то был крупный работник, но так никуда и не вылез, мать - домашняя юристка с принципами и запросами, и он сам им под стать (Трифонов 3)....His [Sergei's] father had once been an outstandingly able man; yet he had never made it to the top; his mother was a nonpracticing lawyer with principles and high standards - and Sergei was similar in nature to both of them (3a).⇒ it is fitting, decent (for s.o. to do sth.):- it isn't right <appropriate, proper, suitable, seemly> for Y to do X.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > под стать
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