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6 каша
жен. kasha;
pap (кашка для детей) ;
slush, mess, jumble перен.;
разг.;
squash( раздавленная масса) жидкая каша, кашица ≈ gruel, mush молочная каша ≈ milk porridge пшенная каша ≈ millet gruel;
millet porridge манная каша ≈ (cooked) semolina рисовая каша ≈ boiled rice гречневая каша ≈ boiled buckwheat овсяная каша ≈ porridge, oatmeal у него в голове каша ≈ he is a muddlehead у него каша во рту разг. ≈ he mumbles с ним каши не сваришь разг. ≈ you won't get anywhere with him, you can't get along with him сапоги просят каши разг. ≈ boots are gaping at the toes, boots are agape березовая каша разг. ≈ the birch, a flogging заварить кашу расхлебывать кашукаш|а - ж.
1. porridge;
(жидкая) pap, gruel;
варить ~у make* porridge;
2. (полужидкая масса) (soggy) mass;
3. (путаница) muddle, hodgepodge;
hotchpotch амер. ;
сапоги ~и просят smb.`s boots are gaping;
с ним ~и не сваришь you won`t get anywhere with him;
заварить ~у get* into a mess, start something;
расхлёбывать ~у put* things right;
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7 a slow coach
пренебр.(a slow coach (тж. slow-coach))тугодум; копуша; старомодный, отсталый человек...it may be a reference to Pickwick himself, who has most unquestionably been a criminally slow coach during the whole of this transaction... (Ch. Dickens, ‘Pickwick Papers’, ch. XXXIV) —...это относится к самому Пиквику, который, конечно, преступно запаздывал во всем этом деле...
Old May never thinks what she's doing. Old slow coach. Old muddlehead. (M. Dickens, ‘The Heart of London’, part III) — Старая Мей никогда не думает о том, то делает. Она такой тугодум и вечно все путает.
What! haven't you got through that bit of work yet? Well - you are a slow coach! — Как! Ты еще не кончил эту работу? Ну и копуша же ты!
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