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81 potatoes with bacon
English-Russian dictionary restaurant vocabulary > potatoes with bacon
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82 potatoes with butter
English-Russian dictionary restaurant vocabulary > potatoes with butter
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83 potatoes come packed
English-Russian combinatory dictionary > potatoes come packed
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84 potatoes in jackets
English-Russian combinatory dictionary > potatoes in jackets
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85 potatoes au gratin
English-Russian dictionary of program "Mir-Shuttle" > potatoes au gratin
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86 small potatoes
1) пустяки, мелочи, что-л. не стоящее внимания...the girls I met in Australia and America seemed very small potatoes to me in comparison with her. (B. Shaw, ‘Cashel Byron's Profession’, ch. IX) —...девушки, которых я встречал в Австралии и Америке, в подметки ей не годятся.
To the Judge Europe was small potatoes compared to the Fourth Congressional District... (G. Vidal, ‘Washington, D. C.’, part III, ch. 1) — Для судьи Европа - пустяки в сравнении с четвертым избирательным округом...
These short-term borrowings are "small potatoes" compared with the hundreds of millions of long-term bonds held by the great Eastern insurance companies... (V. Perlo, ‘The Empire of High Finance’, ch. XIII) — Эти краткосрочные займы - сущая мелочь по сравнению с долгосрочными облигациями на сотни миллионов долларов, находящимися у гигантских страховых компаний Востока.
He began to study games and probabilities, and to frequent gambling joints. But Kansas City was small potatoes for real gambling. (W. Du Bois, ‘Mansart Builds a School’, ch. XI) — Брюс стал изучать различные игры, возможности выигрыша, после чего начал посещать игорные дома. Но в Канзас-Сити настоящему игроку негде развернуться.
2) небольшая сумма денег, мелочьI received $120,000 [to appear in a movie] which is no small potatoes. (DAS) — Я получил 120 000 долларов за исполнение роли в кино. А это сумма немалая.
3) мелкота, мелюзга, мелкие людишки; ≈ мелкая сошка, птица невысокого полёта...some of these self-styled bankers were pretty small potatoes, and not entitled to much credit with our firm. (J. O'Hara, ‘The Lochwood Concern’, book I) —...некоторые из этих самозваных банкиров - мелкая сошка, не заслуживающая доверия нашей фирмы.
He was small potatoes. He had struck, all right, and when there was no one to lead the men of his Local, he had fallen into some sort of function. (S. Heym, ‘Goldsborough’, ch. 19) — Он ведь человек маленький. Правда, он бастовал, и, когда шахтеры его отделения остались без руководства, он брал на себя некоторые обязанности.
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87 new potatoes
sliced potatoes — картофель, нарезанный ломтиками
planting potatoes — посадочный, семенной картофель
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88 peel the potatoes
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90 mashed potatoes
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91 small potatoes
n pl infml esp AmE1)The girls I met there seemed very small potatoes in comparison with her — Девушки, которых я там встречал, ей в подметки не годились
2)3)The new dictionary of modern spoken language > small potatoes
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92 small potatoes
paзг. пpeим. aмep.1) пуcтяки, мeлoчи, чтo-л. нe cтoящee внимaния; cм. тж. small fry1The girls I met in Australia and America seemed very small potatoes to me in comparison with her (G. B. Shaw). To the Judge Europe was small potatoes compared to the Fourth Congressional District (G. Vidat)2) мeлкoтa, мeлюзгa, мeлкиe людишки; " мeлкaя coшкaSome of these self-styled bankers were pretty small potatoes, and not entitled to much credit with our firm (J. O'Hara) -
93 Famous Potatoes
«знаменитый картофель», прозвище штата Айдахо. Картофель из штата Айдахо [Idaho potatoes] славится по всей стране и «знаменитый картофель» [famous potatoes] всегда ассоциируется с этим штатомСША. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > Famous Potatoes
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94 meat-and-potatoes
[͵mi:t(ə)n(d)pəʹteıtəʋz] a разг.основной, самый важный, насущный, жизненно важныйmeat-and-potatoes problems of everyday living - насущные проблемы повседневной жизни
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95 chipped potatoes
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96 meat-and-potatoes
безыскусный, простойTo my mind the best approach to life is meat-and-potatoes one.English-Russian small dictionary of idioms > meat-and-potatoes
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97 all meat and no potatoes
n AmE slI didn't think she was all meat and no potatoes — Я и не думал, что она такая толстая
The new dictionary of modern spoken language > all meat and no potatoes
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98 mashed potatoes
mashed potatoes [ˏmæʃtpəˊteɪtəυz] n plкарто́фельное пюре́ -
99 new potatoes
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100 small potatoes
small potatoes а) пустяки; б) мелкие людишки
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