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  • 1 popular

    adj.
    1 popular (del pueblo) (creencia, movimiento, revuelta).
    la voluntad popular the will of the people
    hacerse popular to catch on
    f.
    Popular, Popular Inc.
    * * *
    1 (del pueblo) traditional
    2 (muy conocido) popular
    * * *
    adj.
    2) folk
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=del pueblo) [cultura, levantamiento] popular; [música] popular, folk antes de s ; [tradiciones] popular, folk antes de s ; [lenguaje] popular, colloquial
    2) (=de clase obrera)
    3) (=muy conocido) popular
    * * *
    1)
    a) <cultura/tradiciones> popular (before n); <canción/baile> traditional, folk (before n); < costumbres> traditional
    b) (Pol) <movimiento/rebelión> popular (before n)
    2) ( que gusta) <actor/programa/deporte> popular
    3) < lenguaje> colloquial
    * * *
    = folkloristic, popular, demotic, folksy [folksier -comp., folksiest -sup.], homespun, folkloric, grassroots [grass-roots], high selling.
    Ex. The cult of information forms the catalyst for a discussion of the ways in which information has acquired folkloristic status as the major way in which people look at the world.
    Ex. Although the fifteenth edition met with some success, it was not generally popular.
    Ex. Without language, the basic and demotic tool, no one would have a chance.
    Ex. The best path, the film implies, is a middle way, combining worldliness with a folksy morality, one that respects family and individual alike.
    Ex. The author chronicles the exuberant stories, hyperbole, homespun speech and demigod characteristics of American 'tall tales'.
    Ex. Such recordings often originate in field work and are ethnomusicological, ethnolinguistic or folkloric in content.
    Ex. For a year or two, any wholesome grass-roots group, aiming at anything from wholemeal bread to revolution, would tap one public agency or another.
    Ex. Many high selling products eventually see a drop in sales and eventual discontinuation, usually after being superseded by a superior product.
    ----
    * acción popular = class action, class action suit.
    * a petición popular = by popular demand.
    * arte popular = folk art.
    * canción popular = popular song.
    * costumbre popular = folkway.
    * creencia popular = urban legend, popular belief.
    * cuento popular = folk tale.
    * cultura popular = public culture.
    * de base popular = grassroots [grass-roots].
    * dejar de ser popular = outlive + Posesivo + popularity.
    * demanda popular = public demand.
    * dicho popular = saying, familiar saying, saw.
    * hacer popular = popularise [popularize, -USA].
    * hacerse popular = catch on.
    * impopular = unpopular.
    * lista de más populares = chart.
    * mito popular = popular myth, urban legend, folk myth.
    * mundo de la música popular, el = Tin Pan Alley.
    * música popular = popular music.
    * muy popular = widely-read, highly popular.
    * organismo de base popular = grassroots organisation.
    * protesta popular = street protest.
    * República Popular China = Chinese People's Republic.
    * República Popular China, La = People's Republic of China, The.
    * República Popular Democrática de Corea, la = People's Democratic Republic of Korea, the.
    * ser muy popular = have + mass appeal.
    * ser popular = find + favour, be popular in appeal, attain + appeal, be popular.
    * ser popular entre = be popular with.
    * voto popular, el = popular vote, the.
    * * *
    1)
    a) <cultura/tradiciones> popular (before n); <canción/baile> traditional, folk (before n); < costumbres> traditional
    b) (Pol) <movimiento/rebelión> popular (before n)
    2) ( que gusta) <actor/programa/deporte> popular
    3) < lenguaje> colloquial
    * * *
    = folkloristic, popular, demotic, folksy [folksier -comp., folksiest -sup.], homespun, folkloric, grassroots [grass-roots], high selling.

    Ex: The cult of information forms the catalyst for a discussion of the ways in which information has acquired folkloristic status as the major way in which people look at the world.

    Ex: Although the fifteenth edition met with some success, it was not generally popular.
    Ex: Without language, the basic and demotic tool, no one would have a chance.
    Ex: The best path, the film implies, is a middle way, combining worldliness with a folksy morality, one that respects family and individual alike.
    Ex: The author chronicles the exuberant stories, hyperbole, homespun speech and demigod characteristics of American 'tall tales'.
    Ex: Such recordings often originate in field work and are ethnomusicological, ethnolinguistic or folkloric in content.
    Ex: For a year or two, any wholesome grass-roots group, aiming at anything from wholemeal bread to revolution, would tap one public agency or another.
    Ex: Many high selling products eventually see a drop in sales and eventual discontinuation, usually after being superseded by a superior product.
    * acción popular = class action, class action suit.
    * a petición popular = by popular demand.
    * arte popular = folk art.
    * canción popular = popular song.
    * costumbre popular = folkway.
    * creencia popular = urban legend, popular belief.
    * cuento popular = folk tale.
    * cultura popular = public culture.
    * de base popular = grassroots [grass-roots].
    * dejar de ser popular = outlive + Posesivo + popularity.
    * demanda popular = public demand.
    * dicho popular = saying, familiar saying, saw.
    * hacer popular = popularise [popularize, -USA].
    * hacerse popular = catch on.
    * impopular = unpopular.
    * lista de más populares = chart.
    * mito popular = popular myth, urban legend, folk myth.
    * mundo de la música popular, el = Tin Pan Alley.
    * música popular = popular music.
    * muy popular = widely-read, highly popular.
    * organismo de base popular = grassroots organisation.
    * protesta popular = street protest.
    * República Popular China = Chinese People's Republic.
    * República Popular China, La = People's Republic of China, The.
    * República Popular Democrática de Corea, la = People's Democratic Republic of Korea, the.
    * ser muy popular = have + mass appeal.
    * ser popular = find + favour, be popular in appeal, attain + appeal, be popular.
    * ser popular entre = be popular with.
    * voto popular, el = popular vote, the.

    * * *
    A
    1 (tradicional) ‹cultura/tradiciones› popular ( before n); ‹canción/baile› traditional, folk ( before n); ‹costumbres› traditional
    2 ( Pol) ‹movimiento/rebelión› popular ( before n)
    protestas populares popular o mass protests
    una manifestación popular a mass demonstration
    B (que gusta) ‹actor/programa/deporte› popular
    muy popular entre los jóvenes very popular with young people
    C ‹lenguaje› colloquial
    * * *

    popular adjetivo
    1
    a) ‹cultura/tradiciones› popular ( before n);

    ‹canción/baile/costumbres› traditional
    b) (Pol) ‹movimiento/rebelión› popular ( before n)

    2 ( que gusta) ‹actor/programa/deporte› popular
    popular adjetivo
    1 (folclórico) folk
    2 (humilde) las clases populares, the people, the working class
    3 (bien aceptado) popular
    4 (conocido, famoso) well-known
    ' popular' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aceptación
    - cabezudo
    - cancionero
    - cómic
    - conocida
    - conocido
    - constancia
    - divulgación
    - infarto
    - interpretar
    - legitimar
    - pueblo
    - romería
    - seguidilla
    - solicitada
    - solicitado
    - atracción
    - concurrido
    - conjunto
    - copla
    - cultura
    - curandero
    - feria
    - jalador
    - palenque
    - pegar
    - petición
    - popularizar
    - usar
    - verbena
    - vulgar
    English:
    alike
    - bandwagon
    - belief
    - big
    - down-market
    - folk
    - folk song
    - immensely
    - itself
    - lore
    - outcry
    - pander
    - popular
    - request
    - throughout
    - by
    - catch
    - demand
    - downmarket
    - hot
    - pop
    - popularize
    - tabloid
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [del pueblo] [creencia, movimiento, revuelta] popular;
    la voluntad popular the will of the people;
    una insurrección/protesta popular a popular uprising/protest
    2. [arte, música] folk
    3. [precios] affordable
    4. [lenguaje] colloquial
    5. [famoso] popular;
    hacerse popular to catch on
    6. [aceptado] popular;
    es muy popular en la oficina she's very popular in the office
    7. Esp Pol = of/relating to the Partido Popular
    ♦ nmf
    Esp Pol = member/supporter of the Partido Popular
    * * *
    I adj
    1 ( afamado) popular
    2 ( del pueblo) folk atr
    3 barrio lower-class
    II mpl
    :
    POL the Popular Party
    * * *
    popular adj
    1) : popular
    2) : traditional
    3) : colloquial
    * * *
    popular adj popular

    Spanish-English dictionary > popular

  • 2 popular

    شَعْبِيّ \ folk: (before a noun) belonging to the customs of the people: a folk dance. popular: of the people: popular beliefs, liked by many people She’s a popular person, He’s popular with (he’s liked by) the army but not with the government. \ See Also شائع (شائِع)‏

    Arabic-English glossary > popular

  • 3 popular

    شَائِع \ common: usual; often heard or seen; happening often: a common flower; a common saying; a common event. ordinary: usual: my ordinary duties; an ordinary person. popular: liked by many people: She’s a popular person. He’s popular with (he’s liked by) the army but not with the government. \ See Also عاديّ

    Arabic-English glossary > popular

  • 4 popular

    مَحْبُوب \ dear: much loved: A dear friend of mine, sweet; fit to be loved What a dear little girl!. popular: liked by many people: She’s a popular person. He’s popular with (He’s liked by) the army but not with the government. sweetheart: a lover.

    Arabic-English glossary > popular

  • 5 ser popular

    (v.) = find + favour, be popular in appeal, attain + appeal, be popular
    Ex. Thus Dewey' policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour.
    Ex. Ticknor's belief in the library's potential as one means of inhibiting the chances of unscrupulous politicians who would lead the ignorant astray explains his insistence that the public library be as popular in appeal as possible.
    Ex. The good novelist is therefore an author with a wide appeal but this wide appeal is not attained, or even sought, through a dilution of quality; it is simply that this type of writer has a different sort of skill.
    Ex. The arrangement of two rotors side by side was never very popular.
    * * *
    (v.) = find + favour, be popular in appeal, attain + appeal, be popular

    Ex: Thus Dewey' policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour.

    Ex: Ticknor's belief in the library's potential as one means of inhibiting the chances of unscrupulous politicians who would lead the ignorant astray explains his insistence that the public library be as popular in appeal as possible.
    Ex: The good novelist is therefore an author with a wide appeal but this wide appeal is not attained, or even sought, through a dilution of quality; it is simply that this type of writer has a different sort of skill.
    Ex: The arrangement of two rotors side by side was never very popular.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ser popular

  • 6 voto popular

    m.
    popular vote, people's choice.
    * * *
    el voto popular
    (n.) = popular vote, the

    Ex: Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.

    Spanish-English dictionary > voto popular

  • 7 voto popular, el

    (n.) = popular vote, the
    Ex. Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.

    Spanish-English dictionary > voto popular, el

  • 8 costumbre popular

    (n.) = folkway
    Ex. Breaking or questioning a folkway does not cause severe punishment, but may cause the person to be laughed at, frowned upon, or scolded.
    * * *
    (n.) = folkway

    Ex: Breaking or questioning a folkway does not cause severe punishment, but may cause the person to be laughed at, frowned upon, or scolded.

    Spanish-English dictionary > costumbre popular

  • 9 dicho popular

    (n.) = adage, wise saying, old saying, saying, familiar saying, saw
    Ex. But now she was beginning to wonder if there was any truth to the old adage that 'It's not what you know, but who you know'.
    Ex. Stories range from one-sentence statements we call jokes and wise sayings, through gossip to the most profound and complicated structures we call novels and poems and plays.
    Ex. Chapters include drinking and moonshine, courting, old cures and remedies, fishing and hunting, plus a chapter of pithy quotes and old sayings.
    Ex. 'Practice makes perfect' is a saying that can be applied to reading.
    Ex. As the familiar saying goes, 'From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step'.
    Ex. And his life confirms the famous old saw: No man is a prophet in his own land.
    * * *
    (n.) = adage, wise saying, old saying, saying, familiar saying, saw

    Ex: But now she was beginning to wonder if there was any truth to the old adage that 'It's not what you know, but who you know'.

    Ex: Stories range from one-sentence statements we call jokes and wise sayings, through gossip to the most profound and complicated structures we call novels and poems and plays.
    Ex: Chapters include drinking and moonshine, courting, old cures and remedies, fishing and hunting, plus a chapter of pithy quotes and old sayings.
    Ex: 'Practice makes perfect' is a saying that can be applied to reading.
    Ex: As the familiar saying goes, 'From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step'.
    Ex: And his life confirms the famous old saw: No man is a prophet in his own land.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dicho popular

  • 10 A popular brand of fruit-flavored candy in the United States. .

    General subject: (Often called a licorice candy, though usually incorrectly since most of its flavors do not contain the licorice extract of traditional black licorice) Twizzlers (The company produces Twi)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > A popular brand of fruit-flavored candy in the United States. .

  • 11 A popular brand of fruit-flavored candy in the United States. (Often called a licorice candy , though usually incorrectly since most of its flavors do not contain the licorice extract of traditional black licorice).

    General subject: Twizzlers (The company produces Twi)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > A popular brand of fruit-flavored candy in the United States. (Often called a licorice candy , though usually incorrectly since most of its flavors do not contain the licorice extract of traditional black licorice).

  • 12 succès

    succès [syksε]
    masculine noun
    • cette pièce a eu un grand succès or beaucoup de succès the play was a great success
    ► à succès [auteur, roman, chanson] successful
    * * *
    syksɛ
    nom masculin invariable success

    votre succès aux élections/à l'école — your success in the elections/at school

    avoir du succès, être un succès — [produit, livre, opération] to be a success ( auprès de with); [disque, chanson] to be a hit ( auprès de with)

    avoir du succès — [artiste] to be a success

    avoir du succès auprès de quelqu'un — [personne] to be a hit with somebody

    faire le succès de quelqu'un/quelque chose — to make somebody/something successful

    à succès — [acteur, pièce, film] successful

    * * *
    syksɛ nm
    1) (= réussite) success

    avoir du succès — to be a success, to be successful

    2) (= chanson) hit
    * * *
    succès nm inv success; une série de succès a string of successes; succès scolaires/universitaires scholastic/academic success; un nouveau succès diplomatique pour another diplomatic success for; votre succès aux élections/à l'école/en politique your success in the elections/at school/in politics; le succès du mois this month's big success ou hit; avoir du succès, être un succès [produit, livre, opération, formule] to be a success (auprès de with); [disque, chanson] to be a hit (auprès de with); avoir du succès [artiste] to be a success; avoir du succès auprès de qn [personne] to be a favouriteGB ou a hit with sb; avoir un succès fou [personne, produit] to be a big hit (auprès de with); leur proposition n'a eu aucun succès their proposal met with no success; connaître un grand succès to be a great success; remporter un succès to score a success; remporter des succès to achieve success; faire le succès de qn/qch to make sb/sth successful; à succès [acteur, pièce, film] successful; auteur à succès best-selling author; avec succès successfully; avec un égal succès equally successfully; sans succès unsuccessfully; sans grand succès without much success.
    succès d'estime succès d'estime, critical though not popular acclaim.
    [syksɛ] nom masculin
    1. [heureux résultat, réussite personnelle] success
    être couronné de succès to be crowned with success, to be successful
    2. [exploit, performance] success
    [en amour] conquest
    aller ou voler de succès en succès to go from one success to another
    3. [approbation - du public] success, popularity ; [ - d'un groupe] success
    a. [œuvre, artiste] to be successful
    b. [suggestion] to be very well received
    avoir du succès auprès de quelqu'un: sa pièce a eu beaucoup de succès auprès des critiques mais peu auprès du public his play was acclaimed by the critics but the public was less than enthusiastic
    il a beaucoup de succès auprès des femmes/jeunes he's very popular with women/young people
    eh bien, il a du succès, mon soufflé! well, I see you like my soufflé ou my soufflé appears to be a success!
    4. [chanson] hit
    [film, pièce] (box-office) hit ou success
    succès d'estime critical acclaim, succès d'estime
    a. [film] a big success
    b. [livre] a best-seller
    c. [disque] a hit
    à succès locution adjectivale
    [auteur, chanteur] popular
    romancier à succès popular ou best-selling novelist
    avec succès locution adverbiale
    sans succès locution adverbiale

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > succès

  • 13 Х-65

    В ХОДУ В БОЛЬШИМ ХОДУ both coll PrepP these forms only subj-compl with бытыз ( subj: usu. abstr)) sth. occurs widely, enjoys popularity, is in general use
    X в (большом) ходу - X is widespread (current, (very) popular, fashionable)
    X is in (great) demand (in style, in vogue)
    Neg X не в ходу - X is outmoded (passe, out of style etc).
    ...Вообще пользование канвой лермонтовских стихов для шуток было так в ходу, что, в конце концов, становилось карикатурой на самое искусство пародии.. (Набоков 1)....The use of some of Lermontov's lyrical poems as a canvas for journalistic jokes about people and events was in general so widespread that in the long run it turned into a caricature of the very art of parody. (1a).
    Прочитав фразу про плен, я опять умилился и подумал, что, видимо, именно тогда ученые и другие общественные деятели стали попадать в плен. Помнится, в самые ранние школьные годы это выражение было в ходу, и я довольно картинно представлял себе этих самых ученых, попавших в плен к буржуям (Искандер 3). Reading the phrase about imprisonment, I was again filled with emotion. It struck me that this was just about the time when scholars and other public figures began to be taken prisoner. As I recall, this expression was current when I first started school, and I had a rather picturesque image of these scholars who had been taken prisoner by the bourgeoisie (3a).
    Но я просто не могу себе представить его в роли грабителя». - «Почему?» - «Ну, теория квадратного подбородка, дегенеративного черепа и низкого лба, я это имею в виду. Ламброзо и его школа». -«...Ламброзо у нас не в ходу» (Семёнов 1). "But I simply can't see him as a robber." "Why?" "You know, the theory of the square chin, degenerate skull and low forehead, that's what I have in mind
    Lombroso and his school." ".. Lombroso's not popular with us in this country" (1a).
    (Варравин:) Сделаем христианское дело поможем товарищу - а?.. Нынче все общинное в ходу, а с философской точки, что же такое община, как не складчина? (Сухово-Кобылин 3). (V:) Let's do the Christian thing, let's help a comrade, shall we?...Nowadays everything communal is fashionable, and from a philosophical standpoint, what is a community if not a pooling of resources? (3a).
    Вообще, политическая мечтательность была в то время в большом ходу... (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). Political dreaminess was generally in vogue then... (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Х-65

  • 14 в большом ходу

    • В ХОДУ; В БОЛЬШОМ ХОДУ both coll
    [PrepP; these forms only; subj-compl with быть (subj: usu. abstr)]
    =====
    ⇒ sth. occurs widely, enjoys popularity, is in general use:
    - X в (большом) ходу≈ X is widespread (current, (very) popular, fashionable);
    - X is in (great) demand (in style, in vogue);
    || Neg X не в ходу≈ X is outmoded (passe, out of style etc).
         ♦...Вообще пользование канвой лермонтовских стихов для шуток было так в ходу, что, в конце концов, становилось карикатурой на самое искусство пародии.. (Набоков 1)....The use of some of Lermontov's lyrical poems as a canvas for journalistic jokes about people and events was in general so widespread that in the long run it turned into a caricature of the very art of parody. (1a).
         ♦ Прочитав фразу про плен, я опять умилился и подумал, что, видимо, именно тогда ученые и другие общественные деятели стали попадать в плен. Помнится, в самые ранние школьные годы это выражение было в ходу, и я довольно картинно представлял себе этих самых ученых, попавших в плен к буржуям (Искандер 3). Reading the phrase about imprisonment, I was again filled with emotion. It struck me that this was just about the time when scholars and other public figures began to be taken prisoner. As I recall, this expression was current when I first started school, and I had a rather picturesque image of these scholars who had been taken prisoner by the bourgeoisie (3a).
         ♦ "Но я просто не могу себе представить его в роли грабителя". - " Почему?" - "Ну, теория квадратного подбородка, дегенеративного черепа и низкого лба, я это имею в виду. Ламорозо и его школа". - "...Ламорозо у нас не в ходу" (Семёнов 1). "But I simply can't see him as a robber." "Why?" "You know, the theory of the square chin, degenerate skull and low forehead, that's what I have in mind; Lombroso and his school." ".. Lombroso's not popular with us in this country" (1a).
         ♦ [Варравин:] Сделаем христианское дело; поможем товарищу - а?.. Нынче все общинное в ходу, а с философской точки, что же такое община, как не складчина? (Сухово-Кобылин 3). [V.:] Let's do the Christian thing; let's help a comrade, shall we?...Nowadays everything communal is fashionable, and from a philosophical standpoint, what is a community if not a pooling of resources? (3a).
         ♦ Вообще, политическая мечтательность была в то время в большом ходу... (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). Political dreaminess was generally in vogue then... (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в большом ходу

  • 15 в ходу

    • В ХОДУ; В БОЛЬШОМ ХОДУ both coll
    [PrepP; these forms only; subj-compl with быть (subj: usu. abstr)]
    =====
    ⇒ sth. occurs widely, enjoys popularity, is in general use:
    - X в (большом) ходу≈ X is widespread (current, (very) popular, fashionable);
    - X is in (great) demand (in style, in vogue);
    || Neg X не в ходу≈ X is outmoded (passe, out of style etc).
         ♦...Вообще пользование канвой лермонтовских стихов для шуток было так в ходу, что, в конце концов, становилось карикатурой на самое искусство пародии.. (Набоков 1)....The use of some of Lermontov's lyrical poems as a canvas for journalistic jokes about people and events was in general so widespread that in the long run it turned into a caricature of the very art of parody. (1a).
         ♦ Прочитав фразу про плен, я опять умилился и подумал, что, видимо, именно тогда ученые и другие общественные деятели стали попадать в плен. Помнится, в самые ранние школьные годы это выражение было в ходу, и я довольно картинно представлял себе этих самых ученых, попавших в плен к буржуям (Искандер 3). Reading the phrase about imprisonment, I was again filled with emotion. It struck me that this was just about the time when scholars and other public figures began to be taken prisoner. As I recall, this expression was current when I first started school, and I had a rather picturesque image of these scholars who had been taken prisoner by the bourgeoisie (3a).
         ♦ "Но я просто не могу себе представить его в роли грабителя". - " Почему?" - "Ну, теория квадратного подбородка, дегенеративного черепа и низкого лба, я это имею в виду. Ламорозо и его школа". - "...Ламорозо у нас не в ходу" (Семёнов 1). "But I simply can't see him as a robber." "Why?" "You know, the theory of the square chin, degenerate skull and low forehead, that's what I have in mind; Lombroso and his school." ".. Lombroso's not popular with us in this country" (1a).
         ♦ [Варравин:] Сделаем христианское дело; поможем товарищу - а?.. Нынче все общинное в ходу, а с философской точки, что же такое община, как не складчина? (Сухово-Кобылин 3). [V.:] Let's do the Christian thing; let's help a comrade, shall we?...Nowadays everything communal is fashionable, and from a philosophical standpoint, what is a community if not a pooling of resources? (3a).
         ♦ Вообще, политическая мечтательность была в то время в большом ходу... (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). Political dreaminess was generally in vogue then... (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в ходу

  • 16 малоизвестный

    little known, not popular
    * * *
    * * *
    little known, not popular
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    little-known
    out-of-the-way

    Новый русско-английский словарь > малоизвестный

  • 17 अस्तुत


    á-stuta
    mfn. not praised (by a hymn) AitBr. ;

    not recited (as.a hymn) ib. ;
    not liked, not popular RV. V, 61, 8; 67, 5.

    Sanskrit-English dictionary > अस्तुत

  • 18 непопулярный

    3) Phraseological unit: could not get elected dogcatcher (Is unpopular.)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > непопулярный

  • 19 beğenilmeyen

    adj. out of favor, not in favor, not popular
    * * *
    antipathetic

    Turkish-English dictionary > beğenilmeyen

  • 20 глас вопиющего в пустыне

    1) General subject: the voice of one crying in the wilderness, a voice crying in the wilderness (библ. \<b\>a (lone) voice in the wilderness\</b\>; also \<b\>a voice crying in the wilderness\</b\> -- if you are a voice in the wilderness, you are the only person expressing a particular opinion, a)
    4) Christianity: voice in the desert
    5) Idiomatic expression: a lone voice in the wilderness (someone who expresses an idea or opinion that is not popular - e.g. For many years, she was a lone voice in the wilderness who wrote about the need for better urban planning.)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > глас вопиющего в пустыне

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