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1) General subject: cow baby, scaredy cat, sissy2) Colloquial: cow-baby3) American: fraidy cat4) Jocular: scaredy-cat6) Jargon: sis -
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Jargon: scaredy-cat ("он такой перепуганный" =\> "he's such a scaredy-cat") -
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ЗАЯЧЬЯ ДУША coll, disapprov NP fixed WO1. ( subj-compl with copula (subj: human, appos, or vocative) a cowardly, timid personyellowbellyscaredy-cat jellyfish chicken.Испуганно озираясь, за мной вышмыгнул доцент И-лев... Я утешил эту заячью душу, как мог (Битов 2). Senior Lecturer N., glancing fearfully over his shoulder, darted out after me....I comforted the yellowbelly as best I could (2a).2. - у когоVP subj. with copula) s.o. is cowardly, timid: у X-a заячья душа - X is as yellow as they come X is chicken-hearted (chicken-livered, lily-livered, yellow-bellied) X has no backbone. -
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ТРУСА (ТРУСУ obs) ПРАЗДНОВАТЬ ИГРАТЬ/СЫГРАТЬ ТРУСА all coll VP subj: human to experience (and sometimes show) fear, show cowardice, get nervous before undertaking sth. etc: X труса праздновал = X got scared X got the jitters X got (all) weak in the knees (in refer, to showing fear) X was a chicken (a scaredy-cat) (in refer, to fear before undertaking sth. only) X got cold feet.Праздновать труса у всех на виду? Никогда! (Аксёнов 12). "Be cowards in public? Never!" (12a). -
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• ЗАЯЧЬЯ ДУША coll, disapprov[NP; fixed WO]=====1. [subj-compl with copula (subj: human), appos, or vocative]⇒ a cowardly, timid person:- yellowbelly;- scaredy-cat;- jellyfish;- chicken.♦ Испуганно озираясь, за мной вышмыгнул доцент И-лев... Я утешил эту заячью душу, как мог (Битов 2). Senior Lecturer N., glancing fearfully over his shoulder, darted out after me....I comforted the yellowbelly as best I could (2a).2. заячья душа у кого [VPsubj with copula]⇒ s.o. is cowardly, timid:- X is chicken-hearted <chic ken-livered, lily-livered, yellow-bellied>;- X has no backbone.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > заячья душа
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7 играть труса
[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to experience (and sometimes show) fear, show cowardice, get nervous before undertaking sth. etc:- [in refer, to showing fear] X was a chicken < a scaredy-cat>;- [in refer, to fear before undertaking sth. only] X got cold feet.♦ Праздновать труса у всех на виду? Никогда! (Аксёнов 12). "Be cowards in public? Never!" (12a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > играть труса
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8 сыграть труса
[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to experience (and sometimes show) fear, show cowardice, get nervous before undertaking sth. etc:- [in refer, to showing fear] X was a chicken < a scaredy-cat>;- [in refer, to fear before undertaking sth. only] X got cold feet.♦ Праздновать труса у всех на виду? Никогда! (Аксёнов 12). "Be cowards in public? Never!" (12a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > сыграть труса
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9 труса праздновать
[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to experience (and sometimes show) fear, show cowardice, get nervous before undertaking sth. etc:- [in refer, to showing fear] X was a chicken < a scaredy-cat>;- [in refer, to fear before undertaking sth. only] X got cold feet.♦ Праздновать труса у всех на виду? Никогда! (Аксёнов 12). "Be cowards in public? Never!" (12a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > труса праздновать
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10 трусу праздновать
[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to experience (and sometimes show) fear, show cowardice, get nervous before undertaking sth. etc:- [in refer, to showing fear] X was a chicken < a scaredy-cat>;- [in refer, to fear before undertaking sth. only] X got cold feet.♦ Праздновать труса у всех на виду? Никогда! (Аксёнов 12). "Be cowards in public? Never!" (12a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > трусу праздновать
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См. также в других словарях:
scaredy-cat — [sker′dē kat΄] n. Slang a person who is unreasonably afraid … English World dictionary
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scaredy-cat — • fraidy cat • fraid cat • scaredy cat • scared cat noun informal A shy person; someone who is easily frightened. Usually used by or to children. Tom was a fraidy cat and wouldn t go in the water … Словарь американских идиом
scaredy-cat — A taunt used by children to a child who will not accept a dare. In The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence, a child touches the face of a dead baby, then dares her friends to do the same. When they refuse to do so she calls them scaredy cats.… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
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scaredy-cat — or[scared cat] See: FRAIDY CAT … Dictionary of American idioms
scaredy-cat — or[scared cat] See: FRAIDY CAT … Dictionary of American idioms
scaredy cat — Synonyms and related words: Milquetoast, baby, big baby, chicken, chicken liver, coward, fraid cat, fraidy cat, funk, funker, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, milksop, mouse, sissy, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver … Moby Thesaurus
scaredy-cat — noun Etymology: scared (past participle of scare) + 1 y + cat Date: 1948 an unduly fearful person … New Collegiate Dictionary