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1 JAYBIRD
• Jaybirds don't rob their own nest - Близ норы лиса на промысел не ходит (Б), Плохой тот вор, что около себя грабит (П) -
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1) General subject: a figure of fun, an object of derision, butt, derision, fool, gazing stock, jack-a-lent, jack-o'-lent, jest, joke, laughing-stock, laughingstock, mock, mockery, pillory, scoff, sport, staring quarter, the scoff of3) Jargon: staring-quarter, stooge, jaybird4) Makarov: target5) Archaic: Jack of Lent -
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1) General subject: as bald as a billiard ball, as bald as a coot, as bald as an egg, not a stitch on, stark naked, stark-naked, without a stitch of clothing3) American English: naked as a jaybird -
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В ЧЁМ (KAK) МАТЬ РОДИЛА highly coll these forms only fixed WO1. - остаться, оставить кого и т. п. ( subj-compl with copula (subj: human, obj-compl with оставить etcobj: human), or detached modif) (to remain, leave s.o. etc) without any clothes onin one's birthday suit(as) naked as the day one was born in the altogether stark naked in the buff without a stitch of clothing (on) naked as a jaybird.«Ну, добежали (собаки) и в одну минуту спустили с меня всё моё рванье. Остался в чем мать родила» (Шолохов 1). "They (the dogs) ran up to me, and in a moment they'd torn all my rags off me. I was left in my birthday suit" (1a).Нас голых, в чём мать родила, перед мытьём стригли в коридоре (Марченко 1). Naked as the day we were born, we had to wait there in the corridor to be shorn before going on to get washed (1a).Говорили о том, что был сеанс в Варьете, после коего все две тысячи зрителей выскочили на улицу в чем мать родила... (Булгаков 9). It was said that there had been a strange performance at the Variety Theater, after which the entire audience of two thousand persons ran out into the street stark naked... (9a).2. - оставить, пустить кого и т. п. ( usu. obj-compl with оставить etcobj: human)) (to leave s.o.) without money, without any means ( usu. in contexts of robbing s.o., winning all s.o. 's money at cards, taking possession of all s.o. 's property by deceitful means etc): without a penny to one's ( s.o. 's) name. -
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• В ЧЕМ < KAK> МАТЬ РОДИЛА highly coll[these forms only; fixed WO]=====1. в чем мать родила остаться, оставить кого и т.п. [subj-compl with copula (subj: human), obj-compl with оставить etc (obj: human), or detached modif]⇒ (to remain, leave s.o. etc) without any clothes on:- stark naked;- in the buff;- naked as a jaybird.♦ "Ну, добежали [ собаки] и в одну минуту спустили с меня всё моё рванье. Остался в чем мать родила" (Шолохов 1). "They [the dogs] ran up to me, and in a moment they'd torn all my rags off me. I was left in my birthday suit" (1a).♦ Нас голых, в чём мать родила, перед мытьём стригли в коридоре (Марченко 1). Naked as the day we were born, we had to wait there in the corridor to be shorn before going on to get washed (1a).♦ Говорили о том, что был сеанс в Варьете, после коего все две тысячи зрителей выскочили на улицу в чем мать родила... (Булгаков 9). It was said that there had been a strange performance at the Variety Theater, after which the entire audience of two thousand persons ran out into the street stark naked... (9a).⇒ (to leave s.o.) without money, without any means (usu. in contexts of robbing s.o., winning all s.o.'s money at cards, taking possession of all s.o.'s property by deceitful means etc):- without a penny to one's (s.o.'s) name.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в чем мать родила
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6 как мать родила
• В ЧЕМ < KAK> МАТЬ РОДИЛА highly coll[these forms only; fixed WO]=====1. как мать родила остаться, оставить кого и т.п. [subj-compl with copula (subj: human), obj-compl with оставить etc (obj: human), or detached modif]⇒ (to remain, leave s.o. etc) without any clothes on:- stark naked;- in the buff;- naked as a jaybird.♦ "Ну, добежали [ собаки] и в одну минуту спустили с меня всё моё рванье. Остался в чем мать родила" (Шолохов 1). "They [the dogs] ran up to me, and in a moment they'd torn all my rags off me. I was left in my birthday suit" (1a).♦ Нас голых, в чём мать родила, перед мытьём стригли в коридоре (Марченко 1). Naked as the day we were born, we had to wait there in the corridor to be shorn before going on to get washed (1a).♦ Говорили о том, что был сеанс в Варьете, после коего все две тысячи зрителей выскочили на улицу в чем мать родила... (Булгаков 9). It was said that there had been a strange performance at the Variety Theater, after which the entire audience of two thousand persons ran out into the street stark naked... (9a).⇒ (to leave s.o.) without money, without any means (usu. in contexts of robbing s.o., winning all s.o.'s money at cards, taking possession of all s.o.'s property by deceitful means etc):- without a penny to one's (s.o.'s) name.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > как мать родила
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/ˈsoj.kə/
jay, jaybird
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