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[PrepP; Invar]=====⇒ (to tell, recount, report etc sth.) in spoken form:- (recount sth. <relay a message etc>) orally < verbally>;- [in some contexts the idiom may be omitted in translation].♦ Решено было послать донесение в штаб. Для этого изоран толковый офицер, Болховитинов, который, кроме письменного донесения, должен был на словах рассказать всё дело (Толстой 7)....It was decided to send a dispatch to the staff. An able officer, Bolkhovitinov, was chosen for the purpose; besides the written report, he was to give a verbal account of the whole affair (7a).2. often disapprov [adv or subj-compl with быть (subj: это, всё это)]⇒ (s.o. states, proclaims etc sth.) insincerely, not supporting or intending to support his words by actions (the opposition between what is stated and what exists in reality is either overtly expressed, usu. by a clause beginning with на деле, or implied):- in words;- [in limited contexts] pay lip service to;- [as subj-compl only] just talk.♦ [Марья Андреевна:] Иван Иваныч, вы меня любите? [Милашин:] Люблю, Марья Андреевна, ей-богу, люблю!.. Я для вас готов жизнью пожертвовать. [Марья Андреевна:] Должно быть, на словах только? Я целый час прошу вас уйти, а вы всё ни с места (Островский 1). [М. А.:] Ivan Ivanych, do you love me? [М.:] I love you, Marya Andrevna, really and truly I love you....I'm ready to sacrifice my life for your sake. [M.A.:] Only in words, no doubt? I've begged you a whole hour to leave, but you haven't moved one inch (1a).♦...Если нам дана эта жизнь, в ней должен быть смысл, хотя все поколения, с которыми я встретилась в жизни, начисто снимали этот вопрос... Идеалом стала математическая логика, но, к несчастью, только на словах (Мандельштам 2). If this life was given to us, it must have a meaning, although the very idea was dismissed out of hand by everybody, young and old, whom I have ever known in my lifetime....Their ideal was logic of a mathematical kind, though they only paid lip service to it, alas (2a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на словах
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посл.as the call, so the echo; the echo responds to the call; one is paid back in kind; cf. he that does not respect is not respected; he who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like; curses like chickens come home to roostКак аукнется - так и откликнется. Если считаете всех жуликами, то одни жулики к вам и придут. (А. Блок, Интеллигенция и революция) — The echo responds to the call. If you consider everyone as crooks, crooks will flock around you.
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