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81 chew the fat
(или rag)paзг.-фaм.1) бpюзжaть, вopчaть, вopчливo твepдить oб oднoм и тoм жe, «пилить»Dog my cats, if she ain't gittin' [-isn't getting] so she's as bad 'bout chewin' the rag as poor Lena was - Dog rest her poor soul! (J. Conroy)2) бoлтaть, тpeпaтьcя; cплeтничaть; тpeпaть языкoм, пepeливaть из пуcтoгo в пopoжнee; пepeмывaть кocтoчкиWe've just been chewing the fat, and she says, 'I've got to make you head of the Art Department' (P. G. Wodehouse). I didn't have anything special to do, so I went down to the can [умывaлкa] and chewed the rag with him while he was shaving (J. Salinger) -
82 С-197
КАЗАНСКАЯ (-ий) СИРОТА coll, rather derog NP usu. sing) a person who pretends to be unhappy, helpless, offended etc in order to gain s.o. 's compassionsympathy seekerX прикидывается казанской сиротой (X строит из себя казанскую сироту) - X is moaning and groaning about his fateX is playing on s.o. fc sympathies (feelings) X is making himself out to be a pitiful thing (a poor soul) X is playing the beggar (the victim)(author's usage) (Войницев:) He к лицу вам, милостивый государь, мой бывший друг, это казанское сиротство! Я понимаю вас! Вы ловкий подлец! Вот кто вы! (Чехов 1). (V.:) It doesn't suit you at all, my dear sir, my ex-friend, to try to play on our feelings. I can see through you. A cunning scoundrel, that's what you are! (1a).Initially referred to Tartar princes who, after the subjugation of Kazan (capital of the Tartar empire) by Ivan the Terrible in 1552, tried to get more concessions and gratuities by moving the tsar to pity when they appeared at his court. -
83 казанская сирота
[NP; usu. sing]=====⇒ a person who pretends to be unhappy, helpless, offended etc in order to gain s.o.'s compassion:|| X прикидывается казанской сиротой < X строит из себя казанскую сироту> ≈ X is moaning and groaning about his fate;- X is playing on s.o.'s sympathies < feelings>;- X is making himself out to be a pitiful thing < a poor soul>;- X is playing the beggar < the victim>.♦ [author's usage] [Войницев:] Не к лицу вам, милостивый государь, мой бывший друг, это казанское сиротство! Я понимаю вас! Вы ловкий подлец! Вот кто вы! (Чехов 1). [V.:] It doesn't suit you at all, my dear sir, my ex-friend, to try to play on our feelings. I can see through you. A cunning scoundrel, that's what you are! (1a).—————← Initially referred to Tartar princes who, after the subjugation of Kazan (capital of the Tartar empire) by Ivan the Terrible in 1552, tried to get more concessions and gratuities by moving the tsar to pity when they appeared at his court.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > казанская сирота
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84 казанский сирота
[NP; usu. sing]=====⇒ a person who pretends to be unhappy, helpless, offended etc in order to gain s.o.'s compassion:|| X прикидывается казанской сиротой < X строит из себя казанскую сироту> ≈ X is moaning and groaning about his fate;- X is playing on s.o.'s sympathies < feelings>;- X is making himself out to be a pitiful thing < a poor soul>;- X is playing the beggar < the victim>.♦ [author's usage] [Войницев:] Не к лицу вам, милостивый государь, мой бывший друг, это казанское сиротство! Я понимаю вас! Вы ловкий подлец! Вот кто вы! (Чехов 1). [V.:] It doesn't suit you at all, my dear sir, my ex-friend, to try to play on our feelings. I can see through you. A cunning scoundrel, that's what you are! (1a).—————← Initially referred to Tartar princes who, after the subjugation of Kazan (capital of the Tartar empire) by Ivan the Terrible in 1552, tried to get more concessions and gratuities by moving the tsar to pity when they appeared at his court.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > казанский сирота
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85 Unglückswurm
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86 malaventurado
adj.unfortunate ill-fated, luckless.* * *► adjetivo1 ill-fated, unfortunate► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 unfortunate person* * *ADJ unfortunate* * *- da adjetivo (liter) ill-fated (liter)* * *- da adjetivo (liter) ill-fated (liter)* * *malaventurado -da* * *
malaventurado,-a
I adjetivo unfortunate
II sustantivo masculino y femenino unfortunate person
' malaventurado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
malaventurada
* * *malaventurado, -a Literario♦ adjill-fated, unfortunate♦ nm,funfortunate person;es un malaventurado he's a poor soul* * *adj unfortunate* * *malaventurado, -da adjmalhadado: ill-fated, unfortunate -
87 feón
es bien feona de cara la pobre the poor soul has a really ugly faceel tiempo está medio feón the weather isn't very niceestá feona la situación the situation is looking ugly -
88 Würstchen
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89 carry one's cross
Am нести свой крестPoor soul, she has a heavy cross to carry with those yound children and her husband out of work.
Англо-русский словарь идиом и фразовых глаголов > carry one's cross
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90 pobre alma
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91 inversion
a syntactical stylistic device in which the direct word order is changed either completely so that the predicate precedes the subject (complete inversion), or partially so that the object precedes the subject-predicate pair (partial inversion) (V.A.K.)Of all my old association, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me. (Ch.Dickens)
Women are not made for attack. Wait they must. (J.Conrad)
To a medical student the final examinations are something like death... (R.Gordon) - Для студента-медика выпускные экзамены - смерти подобны...
••aims at attaching logical stress or additional emotional colouring to the surface meaning of the utterance (I.R.G.)Talent Mr. Micawber has; capital Mr.Micawber has not. (Ch.Dickens)
Down dropped the breeze... (Coleridge)
••нарушение обычного порядка следования членов предложения, в результате которого какой-нибудь элемент отказывается выделенным и получает специальные коннотации эмоциональности и экспрессивности (I.V.A.)English-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) > inversion
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92 stylistic\ inversion
a syntactical stylistic device in which the direct word order is changed either completely so that the predicate precedes the subject (complete inversion), or partially so that the object precedes the subject-predicate pair (partial inversion) (V.A.K.)Of all my old association, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me. (Ch.Dickens)
Women are not made for attack. Wait they must. (J.Conrad)
To a medical student the final examinations are something like death... (R.Gordon) - Для студента-медика выпускные экзамены - смерти подобны...
••aims at attaching logical stress or additional emotional colouring to the surface meaning of the utterance (I.R.G.)Talent Mr. Micawber has; capital Mr.Micawber has not. (Ch.Dickens)
Down dropped the breeze... (Coleridge)
••нарушение обычного порядка следования членов предложения, в результате которого какой-нибудь элемент отказывается выделенным и получает специальные коннотации эмоциональности и экспрессивности (I.V.A.)English-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) > stylistic\ inversion
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93 put up with
phrvi infmlThat's the kind of behaviour that I just will not put up with — Такого поведения я просто не потерплю
My mother had much to put up with, poor soul — Моей мамаше приходилось несладко в этой жизни
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94 казанская сирота
разг., неодобр., ирон.poor soul (thing) (iron., of a person pretending to be poorer (humbler) that he (she) is); whimperer; whiner; moaner- Будет толковать-то! Знаем мы вас, казанских сирот! Девку отдал, малого женил; деньги есть... Чего тебе ещё от господа Бога желать? (И. Бунин, Деревня) — 'Oh, come off it! We know you church mice! You made a match for your wench, you got your lad married, so you must have money... What more can you ask of the Almighty?'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > казанская сирота
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95 мешаться в уме
прост.go mad (crazy); be of unsound mind- Он, бедняжка, уж три года, как помешался в уме. А всё это от модного воспитания. (А. К. Толстой, Упырь) — 'It's three years now since the poor soul has been of unsound mind. And all because of your new-fan-gled upbringing!'
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96 (arme) ziel
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97 een armzalige tobber
een armzalige tobbera poor soul/miserable wretchVan Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > een armzalige tobber
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98 sukkelaar
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99 tobber
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100 zielepiet
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poor soul — have pity on him, miserable wretch … English contemporary dictionary
POOR SOUL — … Useful english dictionary
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