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2 пускать петуха
I[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to commit arson:- X set fire to Y's house ( Y's estate etc);- X set Y's house (Y's estate etc) on fire;- X put a match (a light) to Y's house (Y's estate etc);|| X пустил красного петуха по деревне (по поместью и т. п.) ≈ X put the village (the estate etc) to the torch;- X set fire to the village (the estate etc);- X set the village (the estate etc) on fire;- X put a match (a light) to the village (the estate etc).♦ Лежал [на кладбище] прадед Ардабьева, сосланный когда-то со Владимирщины за "красного петуха", подпущенного помещику (Евтушенко 1). Here [in the cemetery] lay Ardabiev's great-grandfather, exiled at some time from Vladimir province for setting fire to his landlord's estate (1a).♦ "Рас-сх-ходис-сь, говорю, с-слыш-шите?" Тогда в ответ резнуло криком: "Петуха, что ль, пустить по дачке, а?" (Федин 1). "Break it up, I say, d'you hear?" Then a shout in reply: "Well, maybe we'll put a light to the house, eh?" (1a).II• ПУСКАТЬ/ПУСТИТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ПЕТУХА coll[VP; subj: human or голос (var. with давать/дать only); more often pfV]=====⇒ having strained one's vocal cords on a high note (while singing, shouting, or speaking in a high voice), to emit a squeaking sound:- X let out a squeak.♦...На более высокой и пронзительной ноте брала она следующий куплет песни, и казалось, сейчас сорвётся и даст петуха, но не срывалась (Войнович 4).... At the highest and most piercing note she began the second couplet of the song and it seemed that any moment her voice would catch and break, but it did not (4a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > пускать петуха
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3 пустить петуха
I[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to commit arson:- X set fire to Y's house ( Y's estate etc);- X set Y's house (Y's estate etc) on fire;- X put a match (a light) to Y's house (Y's estate etc);|| X пустил красного петуха по деревне (по поместью и т. п.) ≈ X put the village (the estate etc) to the torch;- X set fire to the village (the estate etc);- X set the village (the estate etc) on fire;- X put a match (a light) to the village (the estate etc).♦ Лежал [на кладбище] прадед Ардабьева, сосланный когда-то со Владимирщины за "красного петуха", подпущенного помещику (Евтушенко 1). Here [in the cemetery] lay Ardabiev's great-grandfather, exiled at some time from Vladimir province for setting fire to his landlord's estate (1a).♦ "Рас-сх-ходис-сь, говорю, с-слыш-шите?" Тогда в ответ резнуло криком: "Петуха, что ль, пустить по дачке, а?" (Федин 1). "Break it up, I say, d'you hear?" Then a shout in reply: "Well, maybe we'll put a light to the house, eh?" (1a).II• ПУСКАТЬ/ПУСТИТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ПЕТУХА coll[VP; subj: human or голос (var. with давать/дать only); more often pfV]=====⇒ having strained one's vocal cords on a high note (while singing, shouting, or speaking in a high voice), to emit a squeaking sound:- X let out a squeak.♦...На более высокой и пронзительной ноте брала она следующий куплет песни, и казалось, сейчас сорвётся и даст петуха, но не срывалась (Войнович 4).... At the highest and most piercing note she began the second couplet of the song and it seemed that any moment her voice would catch and break, but it did not (4a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > пустить петуха
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