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  • 21 Ч-55

    БИТЬ (УДАРИТЬ/УДАРИТЬ) ЧЕЛОМ obs, now used in stylized speech VP subj: human
    1. - (кому) to bow respectfully when greeting s.o. (often as a sign of deference, subordination)
    X бил челом Y-y = X bowed low to Y
    X bowed humbly before Y.
    2. - кому to request sth. respectfully and deferentially
    X бил челом Y-y - X humbly implored (begged) Y
    X asked Y most humbly X made (a) humble petition to Y.
    (Хлестаков:) А что вы, любезные? (Купцы:) Челом бьем вашей милости. (Хлестаков:) А что вам угодно? (Гоголь 4). (Kh.:) What is it, my good fellows? (Merchants:) We make humble petition to Your Grace. (Kh.:) Well, and what do you want? (4b).
    3. \Ч-55\Ч-55 (кому) на кого to complain to s.o. (in a position of authority) about another person's wrongdoings
    X челом бил Y-y на Z-a = X made humble petition to Y against Z
    X lodged a complaint (to Y) against Z.
    (Хлестаков:) Что тебе нужно? (Слесарша:)...На городничего челом бью! (Гоголь 4). (Kh.:) What do you want? (Locksmith's wife:)...I make humble petition to you against the Prefect! (4b).
    (Скотинин:) Сколько меня соседи ни обижали, сколько убытку ни делали, я ни на кого не бил челом... (Фонвизин 1). (S.:) No matter how much my neighbors have offended me, no matter how many losses they've caused me, I've not lodged a complaint against anyone... (1a).
    4. - кому за что to express profound gratitude
    X бил челом Y-y X bowed low (bowed down) to Y in gratitude
    X offered Y humble thanks.

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  • 22 бить челом

    • БИТЬ <УДАРЯТЬ/УДАРИТЬ> ЧЕЛОМ obs, now used in stylized speech
    [VP; subj: human]
    =====
    1. бить челом (кому) to bow respectfully when greeting s.o. (often as a sign of deference, subordination):
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X bowed low to Y;
    - X bowed humbly before Y.
    2. бить челом кому to request (sth.) respectfully and deferentially:
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X humbly implored (begged) Y;
    - X made (a) humble petition to Y.
         ♦ [Хлестаков:] А что вы, любезные? [Купцы:] Челом бьем вашей милости. [Хлестаков:] А что вам угодно? (Гоголь 4). [Kh.:] What is it, my good fellows? [Merchants:] We make humble petition to Your Grace. [Kh.:] Well, and what do you want? (4b).
    3. бить челом (кому) на кого to complain to s.o. (in a position of authority) about another person's wrongdoings:
    - X челом бил Y-y на Z-a ≈ X made humble petition to Y against Z;
    - X lodged a complaint (to Y) against Z.
         ♦ [Хлестаков:] Что тебе нужно? [Слесарша:]...На городничего челом бью! (Гоголь 4). [Kh.:] What do you want? [Locksmith's wife:]... I make humble petition to you against the Prefect! (4b).
         ♦ [Скотинин:] Сколько меня соседи ни обижали, сколько убытку ни делали, я ни на кого не бил челом... (Фонвизин 1). [S.:] No matter how much my neighbors have offended me, no matter how many losses they've caused me, I've not lodged a complaint against anyone... (1a).
    4. бить челом кому за что to express profound gratitude:
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X bowed low (bowed down) to Y in gratitude;
    - X offered Y humble thanks.

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > бить челом

  • 23 ударить челом

    • БИТЬ <УДАРЯТЬ/УДАРИТЬ> ЧЕЛОМ obs, now used in stylized speech
    [VP; subj: human]
    =====
    1. ударить челом (кому) to bow respectfully when greeting s.o. (often as a sign of deference, subordination):
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X bowed low to Y;
    - X bowed humbly before Y.
    2. ударить челом кому to request (sth.) respectfully and deferentially:
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X humbly implored (begged) Y;
    - X made (a) humble petition to Y.
         ♦ [Хлестаков:] А что вы, любезные? [Купцы:] Челом бьем вашей милости. [Хлестаков:] А что вам угодно? (Гоголь 4). [Kh.:] What is it, my good fellows? [Merchants:] We make humble petition to Your Grace. [Kh.:] Well, and what do you want? (4b).
    3. ударить челом (кому) на кого to complain to s.o. (in a position of authority) about another person's wrongdoings:
    - X челом бил Y-y на Z-a ≈ X made humble petition to Y against Z;
    - X lodged a complaint (to Y) against Z.
         ♦ [Хлестаков:] Что тебе нужно? [Слесарша:]...На городничего челом бью! (Гоголь 4). [Kh.:] What do you want? [Locksmith's wife:]... I make humble petition to you against the Prefect! (4b).
         ♦ [Скотинин:] Сколько меня соседи ни обижали, сколько убытку ни делали, я ни на кого не бил челом... (Фонвизин 1). [S.:] No matter how much my neighbors have offended me, no matter how many losses they've caused me, I've not lodged a complaint against anyone... (1a).
    4. ударить челом кому за что to express profound gratitude:
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X bowed low (bowed down) to Y in gratitude;
    - X offered Y humble thanks.

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ударить челом

  • 24 ударять челом

    • БИТЬ <УДАРЯТЬ/УДАРИТЬ> ЧЕЛОМ obs, now used in stylized speech
    [VP; subj: human]
    =====
    1. ударять челом (кому) to bow respectfully when greeting s.o. (often as a sign of deference, subordination):
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X bowed low to Y;
    - X bowed humbly before Y.
    2. ударять челом кому to request (sth.) respectfully and deferentially:
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X humbly implored (begged) Y;
    - X made (a) humble petition to Y.
         ♦ [Хлестаков:] А что вы, любезные? [Купцы:] Челом бьем вашей милости. [Хлестаков:] А что вам угодно? (Гоголь 4). [Kh.:] What is it, my good fellows? [Merchants:] We make humble petition to Your Grace. [Kh.:] Well, and what do you want? (4b).
    3. ударять челом (кому) на кого to complain to s.o. (in a position of authority) about another person's wrongdoings:
    - X челом бил Y-y на Z-a ≈ X made humble petition to Y against Z;
    - X lodged a complaint (to Y) against Z.
         ♦ [Хлестаков:] Что тебе нужно? [Слесарша:]...На городничего челом бью! (Гоголь 4). [Kh.:] What do you want? [Locksmith's wife:]... I make humble petition to you against the Prefect! (4b).
         ♦ [Скотинин:] Сколько меня соседи ни обижали, сколько убытку ни делали, я ни на кого не бил челом... (Фонвизин 1). [S.:] No matter how much my neighbors have offended me, no matter how many losses they've caused me, I've not lodged a complaint against anyone... (1a).
    4. ударять челом кому за что to express profound gratitude:
    - X бил челом Y-y ≈ X bowed low (bowed down) to Y in gratitude;
    - X offered Y humble thanks.

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ударять челом

  • 25 жалоба

    сущ.
    complaint; grievance; ( апелляционная) appeal

    заявлять(подавать) жалобу — (на) to complain; file (lay, lodge, make) a complaint (an appeal) ( against); ( в Коллегию адвокатов) to file a complaint with the Bar; ( о нарушении этических норм) to file an ethics complaint ( against)

    отклонять жалобу — to deny (dismiss, reject) a complaint (an appeal)

    рассматривать жалобу — to consider (examine, investigate) a complaint (an appeal)

    удовлетворять жалобу — to grant (redress, satisfy) a complaint (an appeal); remedy a grievance

    решение по апелляционной жалобе — award (decision, judgement, ruling) on (cassational) appeal

    жалоба о нарушении конституционных прав и свобод граждан — complaint about violations of the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens

    - кассационная жалоба
    - необоснованная жалоба
    - обоснованная жалоба

    Русско-английский юридический словарь > жалоба

  • 26 возбуждать уголовное дело против

    1) General subject: lodge a complaint against (кого-л.), make a complaint against (кого-л.), prefer a complaint against (кого-л.)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > возбуждать уголовное дело против

  • 27 подавать жалобу

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    Русско-английский юридический словарь > подавать жалобу

  • 28 В-232

    ВОЛКОМ ВЫТЬ/ВЗВЫТЬ coll VP subj: human fixed WO
    to complain bitterly (about one's suffering, hardships)
    X волком взвоет - X will start howling
    X will (thing Y will make X) moan and groan.

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  • 29 Л-18

    ЛАЗАРЯ ПЕТЬ/ЗАПЁТЬ obsoles, disapprov VP subj: human usu. impfv (often infin with хватит, перестань etc)) to pretend to be miserable and complain about one's fate in an attempt to move s.o. to pity
    X пел Лазаря = X was moaning and groaning about his fate
    X was playing on person Y4 sympathies X was playing Lazarus (the beggar, the pauper) X was pleading poverty.
    (Иванов:) А я-то, какой смешной болван! Православный народ смущаю, по целым дням Лазаря пою (Чехов 4). (I..) And I - I'm just a ludicrous dolt! Day in and day out I go about upsetting decent people, playing Lazarus (4a)
    «Да полно тебе Лазаря петь», - перебил опять Базаров... «Лазаря петь! - повторил Василий Иванович. - Ты, Евгений, не думай, что я хочу... разжалобить гостя...» (Тургенев 2). "Now that's enough playing the beggar," Bazarov cut him short again...."Playing the beggar'" repeated Vasily Ivanovich. "Don't you take it into your head that I want to make our guest sorry for us.. " (2e) "Come, that's enough of your pleading poverty," Bazarov interrupted him again.. "Pleading poverty!" echoed the father. "Don't get the notion, Evgenii, that I want to win the sympathy of our guest.." (2d).
    From the Biblical parable about the beggar Lazarus (Luke 16:20-21).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Л-18

  • 30 М-233

    МОЛОДО-ЗЁЛЕНО со//, often condes or disapprov (sent Invar
    s.o. is naive, inexperienced in sth., lacking in seriousness because of his youth (said condescendingly when a person's behavior or words make his youth or inexperience obvious
    also said to excuse youth's desire for fun): (when) you're young, you're green you're (he's etc) too young to know any better you're (he's etc) young and green.
    Девушка молча вышла. Капитан (милиции) кивнул в её сторону и сказал: «Обижаются за профилактику, а потом сами прибегают и жалуются: „Изнасиловали! Ограбили!"»... - «Молодо-зелено», - сказал я (Искандер 6). The girl went out without saying a word. The (police) captain nodded in her direction and remarked: They're offended when we take precautionary measures, and yet later on they themselves come running in to complain: 'He raped me! He robbed me!'"... "I suppose they're too young to know any better," I said (6a).
    (author's usage) Профессор снисходительно улыбнулся, давая понять, что студент ещё молод и зелен, и ему следует кое-что объяснить (Войнович 1). The professor smiled condescendingly, as if to say that the student was still young and green, and required enlightening (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > М-233

  • 31 Т-6

    (И) ТАК И СЯК coll AdvP these forms only fixed WO
    1. ( adv or predic (subj: human) (to do or try to do sth.) in various ways
    this way and that
    first one way, then another in all different ways.
    Редкие стрелы дождя, утратившего и строй, и вес, и способность шуметь, невпопад, так и сяк вспыхивали на солнце (Набоков 1). Stray arrows of rain that had lost both rhythm and weight and the ability to make any sound, flashed at random, this way and that, in the sun (1a).
    2. Also: ТАК-СЙК
    adv
    not especially well but bearably, tolerably
    so-so
    passably fair to middling.
    «Каково торгует ваша милость?» - спросил Адриян. «Э-хе-хе, — отвечал Шульц, - и так и сяк. Пожаловаться не могу» (Пушкин 3). "How's Your Honor's business?" asked Adrian. uOh, well," answered Schulz, uso-so. I can't complain" (3a).
    Остальной персонал отеля относится ко мне так-сяк (Лимонов 1). The rest of the hotel staff treat me passably (1a).
    3. Also: ТАК-СЯК ( subj-compl with copula ( subj: any common noun)) a person (thing, place etc) is not especially good but is bearable, tolerable, such that one can accept him (or it)
    X и так и сяк = X is not so bad
    X is not that bad X is satisfactory (acceptable) X will do.
    (Себейкин:) Шашлычная ещё так-сяк, у нас там возле артели стекляшку построили... (Рощин 2). (S.:) A shashlik place isn't so bad. They built one near our shop, all made of glass... (2a).
    (Ихарев:) Балык, кажется, не того, а икра ещё так и сяк (Гоголь 2). (I.:) The salmon's not up to scratch, but the caviar's satisfactory (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Т-6

  • 32 Ш-55

    САДИТЬСЯ/СЕСТЬ НА ШЁЮ coll, disapprov VP subj: human
    1. \Ш-55 чью, кого, кому to (begin to) burden s.o. by becoming dependent on him for care, financial support etc: X сядет Y-y на шею = X will become a (heavy) burden to (on) Y
    (in limited contexts) X will live (sponge) off Y.
    В Игарке Влада ожидало разочарование: начальство переехало в Ермаково, жаловаться было некому, расчёт получить негде. Снова садиться на шею Мухаммеду в ожидании лучших времён он не решился. Оставалось тем же манером пуститься дальше - на Ермаковский маяк (Максимов 2). ( context transl) Disappointment awaited Vlad in Igarka
    the expedition's headquarters had moved to Yermakovo, so there was no one to whom he could complain and no one to pay him off. He decided against imposing himself again on Mukhammed while waiting for better times. The only thing to do was to press on to Yermakovo on foot (2a).
    2. to make persistent demands of s.o., force s.o. to satisfy one's will, assert one's control over s.o. etc: X сядет Y-y на шею = X will walk all over Y
    X will be on Y's back X will take advantage of Y X will push Y around.
    «Погрубее надо с ними (женщинами), пожестче. Главное - ни намёка на перспективы. А то на шею сядут» (Евтушенко 2). You have to be tougher with them (women), harder, he thought. Most important, not a hint of marriage. Otherwise, they'll be on your back forever (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Ш-55

  • 33 волком взвыть

    • ВОЛКОМ ВЫТЬ/ВЗВЫТЬ coll
    [VP; subj: human; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ to complain bitterly (about one's suffering, hardships):
    - X волком взвоет≈ X will start howling;
    - X will < thing Y will make X> moan and groan.

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > волком взвыть

  • 34 волком выть

    • ВОЛКОМ ВЫТЬ/ВЗВЫТЬ coll
    [VP; subj: human; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ to complain bitterly (about one's suffering, hardships):
    - X волком взвоет≈ X will start howling;
    - X will < thing Y will make X> moan and groan.

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > волком выть

  • 35 лазаря запеть

    • ЛАЗАРЯ ПЕТЬ/ЗАПЕТЬ obsoles, disapprov
    [VP; subj: human; usu. impfv (often infin with хватит, перестань etc)]
    =====
    ⇒ to pretend to be miserable and complain about one's fate in an attempt to move s.o. to pity:
    - X пел Лазаря≈ X was moaning and groaning about his fate;
    - X was playing Lazarus (the beggar, the pauper);
    - X was pleading poverty.
         ♦ [Иванов:] А я-то, какой смешной болван! Православный народ смущаю, по целым дням Лазаря пою (Чехов 4). [I..] And I - I'm just a ludicrous dolt! Day in and day out I go about upsetting decent people, playing Lazarus (4a)
         ♦ "Да полно тебе Лазаря петь", - перебил опять Базаров... " Лазаря петь! - повторил Василий Иванович. - Ты, Евгений, не думай, что я хочу... разжалобить гостя..." (Тургенев 2). "Now that's enough playing the beggar," Bazarov cut him short again...."Playing the beggar'" repeated Vasily Ivanovich. "Don't you take it into your head that I want to make our guest sorry for us.. " (2e) "Come, that's enough of your pleading poverty," Bazarov interrupted him again.. "Pleading poverty!" echoed the father. "Don't get the notion, Evgenii, that I want to win the sympathy of our guest..." (2d).
    —————
    ← From the Biblical parable about the beggar Lazarus (Luke 16:20-21).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > лазаря запеть

  • 36 лазаря петь

    • ЛАЗАРЯ ПЕТЬ/ЗАПЕТЬ obsoles, disapprov
    [VP; subj: human; usu. impfv (often infin with хватит, перестань etc)]
    =====
    ⇒ to pretend to be miserable and complain about one's fate in an attempt to move s.o. to pity:
    - X пел Лазаря≈ X was moaning and groaning about his fate;
    - X was playing Lazarus (the beggar, the pauper);
    - X was pleading poverty.
         ♦ [Иванов:] А я-то, какой смешной болван! Православный народ смущаю, по целым дням Лазаря пою (Чехов 4). [I..] And I - I'm just a ludicrous dolt! Day in and day out I go about upsetting decent people, playing Lazarus (4a)
         ♦ "Да полно тебе Лазаря петь", - перебил опять Базаров... "Лазаря петь! - повторил Василий Иванович. - Ты, Евгений, не думай, что я хочу... разжалобить гостя..." (Тургенев 2). "Now that's enough playing the beggar," Bazarov cut him short again...."Playing the beggar'" repeated Vasily Ivanovich. "Don't you take it into your head that I want to make our guest sorry for us.. " (2e) "Come, that's enough of your pleading poverty," Bazarov interrupted him again.. "Pleading poverty!" echoed the father. "Don't get the notion, Evgenii, that I want to win the sympathy of our guest..." (2d).
    —————
    ← From the Biblical parable about the beggar Lazarus (Luke 16:20-21).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > лазаря петь

  • 37 молодо-зелено

    • МОЛОДО-ЗЕЛЕНО coll, often condes or disapprov
    [sent; Invar]
    =====
    ⇒ s.o. is naive, inexperienced in sth., lacking in seriousness because of his youth (said condescendingly when a person's behavior or words make his youth or inexperience obvious; also said to excuse youth's desire for fun):
    - (when) you're young, you're green;
    - you're (he's etc) too young to know any better;
    - you're <he's etc> young and green.
         ♦ Девушка молча вышла. Капитан [милиции] кивнул в её сторону и сказал: "Обижаются за профилактику, а потом сами прибегают и жалуются: "Изнасиловали! Ограбили!" "... - Молодо-зелено", - сказал я (Искандер 6). The girl went out without saying a word. The [police] captain nodded in her direction and remarked: "They're offended when we take precautionary measures, and yet later on they themselves come running in to complain: 'He raped me! He robbed me!'"... "I suppose they're too young to know any better," I said (6a).
         ♦ [author's usage] Профессор снисходительно улыбнулся, давая понять, что студент ещё молод и зелен, и ему следует кое-что объяснить (Войнович 1). The professor smiled condescendingly, as if to say that the student was still young and green, and required enlightening (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > молодо-зелено

  • 38 и так и сяк

    [AdvP; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. [adv or predic (subj: human)]
    ⇒ (to do or try to do sth.) in various ways:
    - first one way, then another;
    - in all different ways.
         ♦ Редкие стрелы дождя, утратившего и строй, и вес, и способность шуметь, невпопад, так и сяк вспыхивали на солнце (Набоков 1). Stray arrows of rain that had lost both rhythm and weight and the ability to make any sound, flashed at random, this way and that, in the sun (1a).
    2. Also: ТАК-СЯК [adv]
    ⇒ not especially well but bearably, tolerably:
    - fair to middling.
         ♦ "Каково торгует ваша милость?" - спросил Адриян. "Э-хе-хе, - отвечал Шульц, - и так и сяк. Пожаловаться не могу" (Пушкин 3). "How's Your Honor's business?" asked Adrian. "Oh, well," answered Schulz, uso-so. I can't complain" (3a).
         ♦ Остальной персонал отеля относится ко мне так-сяк (Лимонов 1). The rest of the hotel staff treat me passably (1a).
    3. Also: ТАК-СЯК [subj-compl with copula (subj: any common noun)]
    ⇒ a person (thing, place etc) is not especially good but is bearable, tolerable, such that one can accept him (or it):
    - X will do.
         ♦ [Себейкин:] Шашлычная ешё так-сяк, у нас там возле артели стекляшку построили... (Рошин 2). [S.:] A shashlik place isn't so bad. They built one near our shop, all made of glass... (2a).
         ♦ [Ихарев:] Балык, кажется, не того, а икра ешё так и сяк (Гоголь 2). [I.:] The salmon's not up to scratch, but the caviar's satisfactory (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > и так и сяк

  • 39 так и сяк

    [AdvP; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. [adv or predic (subj: human)]
    ⇒ (to do or try to do sth.) in various ways:
    - first one way, then another;
    - in all different ways.
         ♦ Редкие стрелы дождя, утратившего и строй, и вес, и способность шуметь, невпопад, так и сяк вспыхивали на солнце (Набоков 1). Stray arrows of rain that had lost both rhythm and weight and the ability to make any sound, flashed at random, this way and that, in the sun (1a).
    2. Also: ТАК-СЯК [adv]
    ⇒ not especially well but bearably, tolerably:
    - fair to middling.
         ♦ "Каково торгует ваша милость?" - спросил Адриян. "Э-хе-хе, - отвечал Шульц, - и так и сяк. Пожаловаться не могу" (Пушкин 3). "How's Your Honor's business?" asked Adrian. "Oh, well," answered Schulz, uso-so. I can't complain" (3a).
         ♦ Остальной персонал отеля относится ко мне так-сяк (Лимонов 1). The rest of the hotel staff treat me passably (1a).
    3. Also: ТАК-СЯК [subj-compl with copula (subj: any common noun)]
    ⇒ a person (thing, place etc) is not especially good but is bearable, tolerable, such that one can accept him (or it):
    - X will do.
         ♦ [Себейкин:] Шашлычная ешё так-сяк, у нас там возле артели стекляшку построили... (Рошин 2). [S.:] A shashlik place isn't so bad. They built one near our shop, all made of glass... (2a).
         ♦ [Ихарев:] Балык, кажется, не того, а икра ешё так и сяк (Гоголь 2). [I.:] The salmon's not up to scratch, but the caviar's satisfactory (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > так и сяк

  • 40 так-сяк

    [AdvP; these forms only; fixed WO]
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    1. [adv or predic (subj: human)]
    ⇒ (to do or try to do sth.) in various ways:
    - first one way, then another;
    - in all different ways.
         ♦ Редкие стрелы дождя, утратившего и строй, и вес, и способность шуметь, невпопад, так и сяк вспыхивали на солнце (Набоков 1). Stray arrows of rain that had lost both rhythm and weight and the ability to make any sound, flashed at random, this way and that, in the sun (1a).
    2. Also: ТАК-СЯК [adv]
    ⇒ not especially well but bearably, tolerably:
    - fair to middling.
         ♦ "Каково торгует ваша милость?" - спросил Адриян. "Э-хе-хе, - отвечал Шульц, - и так и сяк. Пожаловаться не могу" (Пушкин 3). "How's Your Honor's business?" asked Adrian. "Oh, well," answered Schulz, uso-so. I can't complain" (3a).
         ♦ Остальной персонал отеля относится ко мне так-сяк (Лимонов 1). The rest of the hotel staff treat me passably (1a).
    3. Also: ТАК-СЯК [subj-compl with copula (subj: any common noun)]
    ⇒ a person (thing, place etc) is not especially good but is bearable, tolerable, such that one can accept him (or it):
    - X will do.
         ♦ [Себейкин:] Шашлычная ешё так-сяк, у нас там возле артели стекляшку построили... (Рошин 2). [S.:] A shashlik place isn't so bad. They built one near our shop, all made of glass... (2a).
         ♦ [Ихарев:] Балык, кажется, не того, а икра ешё так и сяк (Гоголь 2). [I.:] The salmon's not up to scratch, but the caviar's satisfactory (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > так-сяк

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