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mutedly

  • 1 С-678

    ПОД СУРДИНКУ (-ой obs) coll PrepP Invar adv
    1. sounding at reduced volume
    mutedly
    (sound) muted softly quietly low.
    (author's usage) В комнате послышалось храпенье, сначала тихое, как под сурдиной, потом громче... (Гончаров 1). Suddenly there was a sound of snoring in the room, at first gentle, as though muted, then growing louder... (1b).
    2. covertly, clandestinely
    secretly
    in secret on the quiet (q.t.) quietly on the sly.
    Обвенчаться под сурдинку в Москве было не легко... (Герцен 2). То marry on the quiet in Moscow was not easy... (2a).
    ...Каменскую трепала прифронтовая лихорадка... В частях шли перевыборы командного состава. Под сурдинку уезжали из Каменской казаки, не желавшие войны (Шолохов 3). Kamenskaya was in a frontline fever of activity....New unit commanders were being elected. The Cossacks opposed to war were leaving quietly (3a).

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  • 2 под сурдинкой

    ПОД СУРДИНКУ <- ой obs> coll
    [PrepP; Invar; adv]
    =====
    1. sounding at reduced volume:
    - low.
         ♦ [author's usage] В комнате послышалось храпенье, сначала тихое, как под сурдиной, потом громче... (Гончаров 1). Suddenly there was a sound of snoring in the room, at first gentle, as though muted, then growing louder... (1b).
    2. covertly, clandestinely:
    - on the quiet (q.t.);
    - on the sly.
         ♦ Обвенчаться под сурдинку в Москве было не легко... (Герцен 2). То marry on the quiet in Moscow was not easy... (2a).
         ♦...Каменскую трепала прифронтовая лихорадка... В частях шли перевыборы командного состава. Под сурдинку уезжали из Каменской казаки, не желавшие войны (Шолохов 3). Kamenskaya was in a frontline fever of activity....New unit commanders were being elected. The Cossacks opposed to war were leaving quietly (3a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > под сурдинкой

  • 3 под сурдинку

    ПОД СУРДИНКУ <- ой obs> coll
    [PrepP; Invar; adv]
    =====
    1. sounding at reduced volume:
    - low.
         ♦ [author's usage] В комнате послышалось храпенье, сначала тихое, как под сурдиной, потом громче... (Гончаров 1). Suddenly there was a sound of snoring in the room, at first gentle, as though muted, then growing louder... (1b).
    2. covertly, clandestinely:
    - on the quiet (q.t.);
    - on the sly.
         ♦ Обвенчаться под сурдинку в Москве было не легко... (Герцен 2). То marry on the quiet in Moscow was not easy... (2a).
         ♦...Каменскую трепала прифронтовая лихорадка... В частях шли перевыборы командного состава. Под сурдинку уезжали из Каменской казаки, не желавшие войны (Шолохов 3). Kamenskaya was in a frontline fever of activity....New unit commanders were being elected. The Cossacks opposed to war were leaving quietly (3a).

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