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1) General subject: canoodle, caress, cherish, cocker (детей), cosher, cosset, dandle, feast (слух, зрение), flatter (взор, слух), fondle, love (друг друга), nurse, regale (слух, зрение), stroke, stroke-oar, make love to, pitch a woo, pitch the woo, bill and coo3) Sports: pat4) Jargon: monk, mouse, perch, put the feelers on ( someone or something) (что-то или кого-то), touch up5) Invective: futz around6) Taboo: apply, apply the arm, attend parkology, cuddle up, develop somebody (кого-л.), do (one's) homework, fling woo, fool around, fuss somebody (кого-л.), get a strangle hold on somebody (кого-л.), get next to somebody (кого-л.), giraffe somebody (кого-л.), give somebody a body job (кого-л.), go into a huddle, go on an exploring expedition (кого-л.), huddle somebody up (кого-л.), kidoodle, kiss-hug, love somebody up (кого-л.), manhandle somebody (кого-л.), mash, mash somebody (кого-л.), nuzzle, overhaul somebody (кого-л.), party, paw somebody (кого-л., особ. грубо), pet, (somebody) pet (кого-л.), pot, swing -
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1) General subject: advert, apply, be about, bear on, bear upon, concern, deal with, hand, have respect to, regard (к кому-либо, чему-либо), run (on, upon; какой-л. темы), sweep (рукой), tig, toe, touch, touch on (темы), bear upon, touch on, touch upon, (чего-л.) revolve around, get a lift from sth, tap on2) Naval: go near3) Mathematics: be in contact with, be tangent to, relate, tangent4) Railway term: flank5) Geometry: be tangent, be tangential7) Psychology: come to9) Patents: bear10) Business: respect11) Drilling: contact12) Automation: engage13) Makarov: be related to, concern (в рассказе), dab, deal (чего-л.), encompass, lo bear on, osculate, raze, skim, tip, deal with (чего-л.)14) Taboo: touched15) Cement: affect -
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1) General subject: angle (насчёт чего-л.), angle for (smth.), feel one's way, make tentative enquiries, overture, send out a feeler, feel out the situation, put forth a feeler, throw out a runner, take soundings, put out feelers, spy out the land2) Diplomatic term: conduct exploratory talks3) Business: throw out a feeler4) Set phrase: put out a feeler5) Makarov: explore the ground, feel way, fly a kite -
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1) General subject: shill, put forth a feeler, throw out a runner, put out feelers, put out a feeler2) Literal: angle3) Jargon: fish around4) Fishery: cast the line5) Business: throw out a feeler6) Makarov: send out a feeler -
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разг.explore the ground; find out the lie of the land; put out feelersУ Борщёва в тесной хате собирался кулацкий актив... Приходил Гаев Давыд и прожжённый плут Лапшинов... изредка являлся Яков Лукич нащупывать почву. (М. Шолохов, Поднятая целина) — In Borshchov's cramped little cottage the kulak 'activists' assembled... David Gayev attended, and so did that inveterate old fraud Lapshinov... occasionally Yakov Lukich Ostrovnov turned up to find out the lie of the land.
- У меня сынишка подрастает, тоже хочет в медицинский, вот я и прощупываю, так сказать, почву. Конкурс большой? (В. Шукшин, Шире шаг, маэстро!) — 'Got a son who'd like to go to medical school too, so I was just testing the ground like. Is it hard to get in?'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > нащупывать почву
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(вн.; прям. и перен.)sound (d.), мед. probe (d.)♢
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(вн.)1) ( исследовать) probe (d) (тж. мед.); search (d); ( звуком) sound (d)2) ( предварительно разузнавать) probe (d)••зонди́ровать по́чву (выяснять обстановку) — explore the ground; take / make soundings; put out feelers
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ЗАКИДЫВАТЬ/ЗАКИНУТЬ (ЗАБРАСЫ-ВАТЬ/ЗАБРОСИТЬ) УДОЧКУ coll VP subj: human to say or ask sth. indirectly with the purpose of finding out some informationX закинул удочку - X dropped a hintX put out a feeler (feelers) X tested the waters....Сейчас не время доказывать свою правоту. Сейчас ей оставалось одно - попытаться извлечь из сложившихся обстоятельств хотя бы маленькую пользу для своих колхозников. И она издалека стала закидывать удочку: «Холод в воде-то бродить. У людей обутки (regional = обуви) нету» (Абрамов 1). ( context transl)...Now was not the time for her to make her point. The only thing she could do now was to try to use the situation to gain some benefit, however small, for her kolkhozniki. And she began by casting her line from afar. "Wading around in the water is cold work. My people have no shoes" (1a). -
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• ЗАКИДЫВАТЬ/ЗАКИНУТЬ <ЗАБРАСЫВАТЬ/ЗАБРОСИТЬ> УДОЧКУ coll[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to say or ask sth. indirectly with the purpose of finding out some information:- X put out a feeler < feelers>;- X tested the waters.♦...Сейчас не время доказывать свою правоту. Сейчас ей оставалось одно - попытаться извлечь из сложившихся обстоятельств хотя бы маленькую пользу для своих колхозников. И она издалека стала закидывать удочку: "Холод в воде-то бродить. У людей обутки [regional = обуви] нету" (Абрамов 1). [context transl]... Now was not the time for her to make her point. The only thing she could do now was to try to use the situation to gain some benefit, however small, for her kolkhozniki. And she began by casting her line from afar. "Wading around in the water is cold work. My people have no shoes" (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > забрасывать удочку
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• ЗАКИДЫВАТЬ/ЗАКИНУТЬ <ЗАБРАСЫВАТЬ/ЗАБРОСИТЬ> УДОЧКУ coll[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to say or ask sth. indirectly with the purpose of finding out some information:- X put out a feeler < feelers>;- X tested the waters.♦...Сейчас не время доказывать свою правоту. Сейчас ей оставалось одно - попытаться извлечь из сложившихся обстоятельств хотя бы маленькую пользу для своих колхозников. И она издалека стала закидывать удочку: "Холод в воде-то бродить. У людей обутки [regional = обуви] нету" (Абрамов 1). [context transl]... Now was not the time for her to make her point. The only thing she could do now was to try to use the situation to gain some benefit, however small, for her kolkhozniki. And she began by casting her line from afar. "Wading around in the water is cold work. My people have no shoes" (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > забросить удочку
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• ЗАКИДЫВАТЬ/ЗАКИНУТЬ <ЗАБРАСЫВАТЬ/ЗАБРОСИТЬ> УДОЧКУ coll[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to say or ask sth. indirectly with the purpose of finding out some information:- X put out a feeler < feelers>;- X tested the waters.♦...Сейчас не время доказывать свою правоту. Сейчас ей оставалось одно - попытаться извлечь из сложившихся обстоятельств хотя бы маленькую пользу для своих колхозников. И она издалека стала закидывать удочку: "Холод в воде-то бродить. У людей обутки [regional = обуви] нету" (Абрамов 1). [context transl]... Now was not the time for her to make her point. The only thing she could do now was to try to use the situation to gain some benefit, however small, for her kolkhozniki. And she began by casting her line from afar. "Wading around in the water is cold work. My people have no shoes" (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > закидывать удочку
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• ЗАКИДЫВАТЬ/ЗАКИНУТЬ <ЗАБРАСЫВАТЬ/ЗАБРОСИТЬ> УДОЧКУ coll[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to say or ask sth. indirectly with the purpose of finding out some information:- X put out a feeler < feelers>;- X tested the waters.♦...Сейчас не время доказывать свою правоту. Сейчас ей оставалось одно - попытаться извлечь из сложившихся обстоятельств хотя бы маленькую пользу для своих колхозников. И она издалека стала закидывать удочку: "Холод в воде-то бродить. У людей обутки [regional = обуви] нету" (Абрамов 1). [context transl]... Now was not the time for her to make her point. The only thing she could do now was to try to use the situation to gain some benefit, however small, for her kolkhozniki. And she began by casting her line from afar. "Wading around in the water is cold work. My people have no shoes" (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > закинуть удочку
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