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penny father

  • 1 скряга

    1) General subject: Scrooge, buzzard, cheapskate, chuff, churl, close as a clam, close file, codger (старый), curmudgeon, griper, hoarder of money, hunks, miser, muckworm, niggard, nip cheese, nip farthing, nip-cheese, penny father, penny pincher, penny-father, piker, pinch fist, pinch-fist, pinchpenny, save all, scrape-penny, scraper, screw, skin, skinflint, money grubber
    2) Colloquial: (старый) codger, nip-farthing
    3) Dialect: save-all
    4) American: tight-wad, tightwad
    5) Obsolete: lickpenny
    6) Rare: flint
    7) Australian slang: cheap skate, tight arse, tight wad
    8) Scottish language: carl
    10) Literature: (часто scrooge) Scrooge
    11) Archaic: carle
    12) Taboo: hard ass, mean shit

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > скряга

  • 2 скупердяй

    2) American: tightwad
    3) Australian slang: tight arse, tight wad
    4) Jargon: skin, stiff, tight-fisted

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > скупердяй

  • 3 Ц-27

    В ЦЕНЕ PrepP Invar subj-compl with бытыз)
    1. ( subj: concr (count pl or mass)) (some category of items) is highly valued and therefore has a high market price: Х-ы в цене - Xs are (very (quite, rather)) costly
    Xs are highly priced (high-priced) the price of Xs is high Xs are worth (quite) a bit Xs are worth a pretty penny Xs bring (fetch) a good price Xs are in demand
    Neg Х-ы не в цене - Xs don't fetch (bring) much.
    «Хлеб был хорош и в цене, и в марте или апреле вы получите деньги...» (Гончаров 1). "The harvest was good, the price high, and you can get the money in March or April..." (1b).
    Батько ещё в начале весны повёз в Крым на продажу табак... Табак был тогда в цене (Гоголь 5). Just at the beginning of spring Father went with the wagons to the Crimea to sell tobacco;...tobacco brought a good price in those days (5a).
    Нашатырь... был в цене. Он заменял дрожжи (Паустовский 1). Ammonia was in demand. It was a substitute for yeast (1a).
    (Анчугин:) Часы теперь не в цене (Вампилов 1). (A.:) Watches don't fetch much these days (1a).
    2. (subj: human ( usu. pi) or abstr) (people of some category, items of some type etc) are considered to be of great value (among some group, in some place etc): Х-ы в цене - Xs are highly valued.
    Опытный и честный работник всегда в цене. An experienced and honest worker is always highly valued

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Ц-27

  • 4 в цене

    [PrepP; Invar; subj-compl with быть]
    =====
    1. [subj: concr (count pl or mass)]
    ⇒ (some category of items) is highly valued and therefore has a high market price:
    - X-ы в цене≈ Xs are (very <quite, rather>) costly;
    - Xs are highly priced < high-priced>;
    - Xs bring < fetch> a good price;
    || Neg X-ы не в цене≈ Xs don't fetch < bring> much.
         ♦ "Хлеб был хорош и в цене, и в марте или апреле вы получите деньги..." (Гончаров 1). "The harvest was good, the price high, and you can get the money in March or April..." (1b).
         ♦ Батько ещё в начале весны повёз в Крым на продажу табак... Табак был тогда в цене (Гоголь 5). Just at the beginning of spring Father went with the wagons to the Crimea to sell tobacco;...tobacco brought a good price in those days (5a).
         ♦ Нашатырь... был в цене. Он заменял дрожжи (Паустовский 1). Ammonia was in demand. It was a substitute for yeast (1a).
         ♦ [Анчугин:] Часы теперь не в цене (Вампилов 1). [A.:] Watches don't fetch much these days (1a).
    2. [subj: human (usu. pl) or abstr]
    ⇒ (people of some category, items of some type etc) are considered to be of great value (among some group, in some place etc):
    - Х-ы в цене≈ Xs are highly valued.
         ♦ Опытный и честный работник всегда в цене. An experienced and honest worker is always highly valued

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в цене

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