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ПРОСТОТА ХУЖЕ ВОРОВСТВА (saying) an excess of naivete leads to trouble, causes problems: simplicity is worse than robbery (thievery)....Я навсегда усвоил себе несколько бунинских рекомендаций: такт, точность, краткость, простота, но разумеется, - и Бунин это подчеркивал много раз, - он говорил не о той простоте, которая хуже воровства, а о простоте как следствии очень большой работы над фразой, над отдельным словом... (Катаев 3). I..resolved to be guided always by Bunins recommendations concerning tact, precision, brevity and simplicity, but, as Bunin often emphasized, he was talking not about that simplicity which, as the saying goes, is worse than robbery, but about the simplicity that comes from intensive work on a phrase or a particular word (3a) -
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[saying]=====⇒ an excess of naivete leads to trouble, causes problems:- simplicity is worse than robbery (thievery).♦...Я навсегда усвоил себе несколько бунинских рекомендаций: такт, точность, краткость, простота, но разумеется, - и Бунин это подчеркивал много раз, - он говорил не о той простоте, которая хуже воровства, а о простоте как следствии очень большой работы над фразой, над отдельным словом... (Катаев 3). I..resolved to be guided always by Bunins recommendations concerning tact, precision, brevity and simplicity, but, as Bunin often emphasized, he was talking not about that simplicity which, as the saying goes, is worse than robbery, but about the simplicity that conies from intensive work on a phrase or a particular word (3a)Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > простота хуже воровства
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посл.lit. simplicity is worse than robbery; cf. though modesty be a virtue, yet bash-fulness is a vice; be just before you are generousПросто-то оно, конечно, просто, да ведь иная простота хуже воровства. Подитко спроста-то коснись, ан с первого же шага в такое несметное множество капканов попадёшь, что и голову там, пожалуй, оставишь! (М. Салтыков-Щедрин, Добродетели и пороки) — Maybe it sounded simple enough, but then there are times when simplicity is worse than robbery. Just go and touch something 'in all simplicity'! From the very first step you'll encounter so many pitfalls that you'll be lucky if you don't leave your head behind you.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > простота хуже воровства
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ж.••свята́я простота́ — holy simplicity, blessed innocence
по простоте́ серде́чной — in one's innocence
простота́ ху́же воровства́ посл. — simplicity is worse than robbery
он сло́ва в простоте не ска́жет — he never uses plain / straightforward language
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Set phrase: be just before you are generous, crudeness is no goodness, crudeness is worse than thieving, though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice (simplicity is worse than robbery. used disapprovingly about a person whose naivety and blind trustfulness cause trouble, may do harm)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > простота хуже воровства
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6 though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice
Пословица: простота хуже воровства (simplicity is worse than robbery. used disapprovingly about a person whose naivety and blind trustfulness cause trouble, may do harm)Универсальный англо-русский словарь > though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice
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