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121 eat one's words
tükürdügünü yalamak, sözünü geri alip özür dilemek -
122 weigh one's words
sözlerini tartmak -
123 Words
Words are but the images of matter... to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. (Bacon, 1878, p. 120)Chamberlin, Tracy, Dewey, Binet and others have shown that the child's symbols are action-words, i.e., their content is action. There is also practically universal agreement on the fact that the first symbols of the child are in reality word-sentences designating action and object or subject, or all three at once. (Markey, 1928, p. 50)The child can very readily learn at the age of three that "right" and "left" each refers to a side of the body-but ah me, which one?... What is set up first is a conceptual organization. By the age of six the word "right" clearly and immediately means sidedness to the child. A considerable conceptual elaboration has already occurred, and the stimulus effectively arouses that structure; but it arouses no prompt, specific response.... With such facts, it becomes nonsense to explain man's conceptual development as exclusively consisting of verbal associations. (Hebb, 1949, p. 118)The use of language is not confined to its being the medium through which we communicate ideas to one another.... Words are the instrument by which we form all our abstractions, by which we fashion and embody our ideas, and by which we are enabled to glide along a series of premises and conclusions with a rapidity so great as to leave in memory no trace of the successive steps of this process; and we remain unconscious of how much we owe to this. (Roget, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 197)Any attempt at a philosophical arrangement under categories of the words of our language must reveal the fact that it is impossible to separate and circumscribe the several groups by absolutely distinct boundaries. Were we to disengage their interwoven ramifications, and seek to confine every word to its main or original meaning, we should find some secondary meaning has become so firmly associated with many words and phrases, that to sever the alliance would be to deprive our language of the richness due to an infinity of natural adaptations. (Roget, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 206)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Words
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124 one of these days
(one of these days (тж. one или some day; амер. some of these days))в ближайшие дни, в самое ближайшее время, на днях, вскоре; ≈ недалёк тот день, когда...My poor friend, one of these days you'll be so dreadfully sorry you said this to me. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Complete Short Stories’, ‘Louise’) — Мой бедный друг, уже недалек тот день, когда вы страшно пожалеете об этих словах.
Well, you mark my words. There's trouble to come one of these days. (P. H. Johnson, ‘An Avenue of Stone’ part I, ch. 4) — Помяните мое слово, будут неприятности - и в самое ближайшее время.
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125 one's ace of trumps
главный козырь, самый веский доводBrassbound: "...You, greenhorns, he is more likely to send you all to penal servitude if you are fools enough to give him the chance..." Redbrook: "Righto... That's the ace of trumps," (B. Shaw, ‘Captain Brassbound's Conversion’, act II) — Брассбаун: "...Вы, молокососы, он вас всех отправит на каторжные работы, если вы по глупости дадите ему для этого повод..." Редбрук: "Правильно... Это самый веский довод."
‘Tea-leaves!’ Aunt Milly snorted. ‘In the twentieth century!’ She brought out those last words like the ace of trumps. (C. P. Snow, ‘Time of Hope’, ch. I) — - Гаданье на кофейной гуще, - фыркнула тетя Милли. - И это в двадцатом веке! Последние слова были сказаны тоном, не допускающим возражений.
I will not play my ace of trumps yet. (EP) — Я еще не пустил в ход мой главный козырь.
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126 words fail one
нe нaxoдить cлoв, пoтepять дap peчи (oт нeгoдoвaния, вoзмущeния и т. п.)He'll be the death of me... Words failed him and he sat quite still (J. Galsworthy). I nearly fainted with fright at the thought of Mark's mother. Words failed me (S. Howatch) -
127 words ringing in ears
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128 one could have bitten one's tongue off
paзг.гoтoв ceбe язык oткуcить (oт дocaды нa cвoю бoлтливocть)She could have bitten her tongue off as soon as the words were out (Sh. Anderson)Concise English-Russian phrasebook > one could have bitten one's tongue off
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To eat one's words — Word Word, n. [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord, G. wort, Icel. or[eth], Sw. & Dan. ord, Goth. wa[ u]rd, OPruss. wirds, Lith. vardas a name, L. verbum a word; or perhaps to Gr. rh twr an orator. Cf. {Verb}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
eat one's words — also[swallow one s words] {v. phr.} To take back something you have said; admit something is not true. * /John had called Harry a coward, but the boys made him eat his words after Harry bravely fought a big bully./ Compare: EAT CROW … Dictionary of American idioms
eat one's words — also[swallow one s words] {v. phr.} To take back something you have said; admit something is not true. * /John had called Harry a coward, but the boys made him eat his words after Harry bravely fought a big bully./ Compare: EAT CROW … Dictionary of American idioms
eat one's words — phrasal : to retract what one has said * * * eat one s words To take back what one has said • • • Main Entry: ↑eat eat one s words To retract what one has said, or apologize for it, usu under compulsion • • • Main Entry: ↑word * * * retract what… … Useful english dictionary
eat\ one's\ words — • eat one s words • swallow one s words v. phr. To take back something you have said; admit something is not true. John had called Harry a coward, but the boys made him eat his words after Harry bravely fought a big bully. Compare: eat crow … Словарь американских идиом
mince words (or one's words) usu. with negative — voice one s disapproval delicately or gently. → mince … English new terms dictionary
swallow one's words — 1. To speak unclearly; fail to put enough breath into your words. * /Phyllis was hard to understand because she swallowed her words./ 2. See: EAT ONE S WORDS … Dictionary of American idioms
swallow one's words — 1. To speak unclearly; fail to put enough breath into your words. * /Phyllis was hard to understand because she swallowed her words./ 2. See: EAT ONE S WORDS … Dictionary of American idioms
swallow\ one's\ words — 1. To speak unclearly; fail to put enough breath into your words. Phyllis was hard to understand because she swallowed her words. 2. See: eat one s words … Словарь американских идиом
To eat one's words — Eat Eat ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
eat one's words — idi eat one s words, to retract one s statement, esp. with humility … From formal English to slang
