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1 queer someone's pitch
expr infmlIf she noticed that any woman had predatory intentions on her lover she took care to queer her pitch — Если она замечала, что какая-нибудь женщина положила глаз на ее любовника, она всячески старалась ей насолить
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2 queer someone's pitch
ломать, расстраивать чьи либо-планы; подкладывать кому-либо свинью -
3 queer someone's pitch
ломать, расстраивать чьи либо-планы; подкладывать кому-либо свиньюEnglish-Russian australian expression > queer someone's pitch
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4 pitch
Имя существительное pitch имеет несколько значений: смола; площадка (football pitch, cricket pitch); килевая качка корабля; подача крикетного мяча; постоянное или обычное место торговли — каждая проститутка имеет свою собственную pitch (территорию); уровень или степень активности — the crowd's excitement reached fever pitch (толпу охватило возбуждение), events came to such a pitch that... (дошло до того, что...); уклон, скат крыши. Выражение to queer someone's pitch значит подложить свинью кому-либо.I thought of telling the boss that you were not here yesterday because your mother died. But I didn't, because I didn't want to queer your pitch. — Я думал было сказать начальнику, что тебя не было здесь вчера, потому что умерла твоя мама, но не стал ничего говорить, чтобы не подставить тебя.
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queer someone's pitch — To spoil someone s chances • • • Main Entry: ↑queer * * * queer someone’s pitch british old fashioned phrase to spoil what someone is doing or planning to do Thesaurus: to stop someone doing somethingsynonym to kill a person or animal … Useful english dictionary
queer someone's pitch — ► queer someone s pitch Brit. informal spoil someone s plans or chances of doing something. Main Entry: ↑queer … English terms dictionary
queer someone's pitch — queer (someone s) pitch British & Australian to spoil someone s chances of doing something. She queered my pitch by asking for promotion before I did … New idioms dictionary
queer someone's pitch — Brit. spoil someone s plans or chances of doing something. → queer … English new terms dictionary
queer someone's pitch — British old fashioned to spoil what someone is doing or planning to do … English dictionary
queer someone's pitch — verb To make a task more difficult for the speaker … Wiktionary
Queer one's pitch — upset someone s plans … Dictionary of Australian slang
queer one's pitch — Australian Slang upset someone s plans … English dialects glossary
queer — ► ADJECTIVE 1) strange; odd. 2) informal, derogatory (of a man) homosexual. 3) Brit. informal, dated slightly ill. ► NOUN informal, derogatory ▪ a homosexual man. ► VERB informal ▪ spoil or ruin … English terms dictionary
queer pitch — queer (someone s) pitch British & Australian to spoil someone s chances of doing something. She queered my pitch by asking for promotion before I did … New idioms dictionary
pitch — I. /pɪtʃ / (say pich) verb (t) 1. to set up or erect (a tent, camp, etc.). 2. to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position (as cricket stumps, etc.). 3. to set or aim at a certain point, degree, level, etc.: he pitched his hopes …
