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1 in the offing
1) поблизости, невдалеке [этим. мор. вдали от берега (но в виду его)]Here, then, was the guest. Unlimited energy in the offing - right in the sea. As might be expected, a rash of pie-in-the-sky prediction broke out. (R. E. Lapp, ‘Atoms and People’, ch. XIV) — Так вот где заветная цель! Неиссякаемые запасы энергии у нас под самым носом - в морской воде. Как и следовало ожидать, хлынул поток самых фантастических предсказаний.
Here was Aileen talking bravely of the necessity of her Frank finding a woman suitable to his needs, tastes, abilities, but now that the possibility of another woman equally or possibly better suited to him was looking in the offing, she could not reason in the same way. (Th. Dreiser, ‘The Titan’, ch. XVII) — В ту пору Эйлин смело говорила о том, что "ее Фрэнку" нужна женщина, которая подходила бы ему по развитию, склонностям, вкусам; теперь же, когда вполне реальной стала возможность, что Фрэнк найдет себе возлюбленную, еще более отвечающую его запросам, она стала рассуждать совсем по-другому.
I was as certain as I've ever been of anything that all sorts of rotten things were in the offing. (P. G. Wodehouse, ‘Carry on, Jeeves’, ch. I) — У меня не было никакого сомнения, что эти люди замышляют всевозможные подлости.
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