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1 screw your courage to the sticking-point
screw your courage to the sticking-pointjunte toda sua coragem.English-Portuguese dictionary > screw your courage to the sticking-point
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2 bring one's courage to the sticking point
(bring one's courage to the sticking(-)point (тж. muster up courage, pluck up (one's) courage, summon (up) courage, take courage, take one's courage in both hands, screw (up) one's courage to the sticking place или point))набраться храбрости, отважиться, собраться с духом, призвать всю свою храбрость [screw one's courage to the sticking place шекспировское выражение; см. цитату; take courage этим. библ. 2 Chronicles XV, 8; take one's courage in both hands этим. фр. prendre son courage à deux mains]Macbeth: "If we should fail?" Lady Macbeth: "We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail... " (W. Shakespeare, ‘Macbeth’, act I, sc. 7) — Макбет: "Но если не удастся?" Леди Макбет: "Не удастся? Решись - И нам удастся все..." (перевод А. Кронеберга)
Who should present himself but that very Kit who had been the theme of Mr. Chuckster's wrath! Never did man pluck up his courage so quickly, or look so fierce, as Mr. Chuckster when he found it was he. (Ch. Dickens, ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’, ch. LVI) — И кто же появился в конторе, как не тот самый Кит, который навлек на себя гнев мистера Чакстера! При виде его к мистеру Чакстеру в мгновение ока вернулось обычное мужество, и он принял чрезвычайно свирепый вид.
...it was some time before Theobald could bring his courage to the sticking point of actually proposing. (S. Butler, ‘The Way of All Flesh’, ch. XI) —...прошло некоторое время, прежде чем Теобальд набрался храбрости и решился сделать предложение.
But if you were to ask me my advice, I should say: take your courage in both hands and try your luck at something else. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Of Human Bondage’, ch. 51) — Если бы вы спросили моего совета, я бы вам сказал: соберитесь с духом и попытайте счастья на другом поприще.
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3 sticking-point
stick.ing-point[st'ikiŋ pɔint] n ponto de partida, ponto de fixação. screw your courage to the sticking-point junte toda sua coragem.
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Sticking point — Sticking Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sticking point — sticking place, sticking point The phrase sticking point is first recorded in 1826, and in its common modern meaning ‘the limit reached of progress, agreement, etc.’ not until the 1960s. The allusion is to a line in Shakespeare s Macbeth… … Modern English usage
Sticking — Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sticking piece — Sticking Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sticking place — Sticking Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sticking plaster — Sticking Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sticking place — sticking place, sticking point The phrase sticking point is first recorded in 1826, and in its common modern meaning ‘the limit reached of progress, agreement, etc.’ not until the 1960s. The allusion is to a line in Shakespeare s Macbeth… … Modern English usage
sticking place — noun 1. : the place where something stops and sticks fast screw your courage to the sticking place Shakespeare 2. : the place or point in the neck of an animal where the knife is stuck in slaughtering * * * 1. Also called sticking point. the… … Useful english dictionary
sticking-place — noun The point at which a process or thing, especially a state of mind or emotion, reaches its greatest strength and remains steadfast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place … Wiktionary
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