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1 выдумка
1) General subject: a figment of the mind, artifice, brainchild, capriccio, caprice, cock-and-bull story, coinage, confabulation, contrivance, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, fib, fiction, fictitious narrative, fictive narrative, figment, flam, fudge, gammon, invention, made-up story, make believe, make up, make-believe, make-believe reply, make-up, malarkey, romance, story, story telling, tale, verisimilitudes, whigmaleerie, whim wham, whim-wham (дикая), whimsy whamsy, windy, tarradiddle, hoax3) Literal: myth4) Poetical language: forgery5) Jocular: fish story6) Australian slang: yarn7) Diplomatic term: baloney, figment of the mind, make reply8) Psychology: imagination10) Jargon: bum, gag, ackamarackus, ackamaracka11) American English: tall tale -
2 предлог
1) General subject: a peg to hang (a thing) on, blind, cloak, colour, cop-out (не сделать чего-л.), cover, creephole, excuse, guise, handle, make-believe, make-believe reply, peg to hang a thing on (для речи и т. п.), plea, pretence, pretense, pretext, salvo, stalking horse, stalking-horse, veil, redirect2) Colloquial: alibi3) American: stall (особ. с целью оттяжки)4) Grammar: prep, preposition6) Linguistics: P7) Diplomatic term: make reply8) Jargon: cover-up9) Business: allegation -
3 отговорка
1) General subject: a slim excuse, blind, come off, cop-out, cover, evasion, excuse, implausible excuse, jive excuse, make-believe reply, pretence, pretext, put off, put-off, salvo, shuffle, sob story, sob-story, subterfuge, getaway, go-around, get-out clause3) American: pretense4) Diplomatic term: get-away (особ. заранее продуманная), make reply, diplomatic illness (букв. - "дипломатическая болезнь") -
4 отговорка отговорк·а
excuse, make-believe reply, subterfuge; (предлог) pretextотделываться отговорками — to try to get out of doing smth. with lame excuses
придумать отговорку — trump up / concoct an excuse
пустая отговорка — hollow excuse / pretence
Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > отговорка отговорк·а
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