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1 сложа руки
сложа (поджавши) руки (сидеть, стоять и т. п.)разг., неодобр.fold one's arms; sit idle (in idleness); sit (stand) with one's hands idle; sit on one's hands Amer.; sit (stand, etc.) without doing a stroke < of work> (without lifting a finger)В воскресенье и праздники грешно было работать, понедельник - тяжёлый день, и таким образом в году набиралось около двухсот дней, когда поневоле приходилось сидеть сложа руки. (А. Чехов, Скрипка Ротшильда) — On Sundays and saints' days it was a sin to work, Monday was a tiresome day - and so on; so that in one way or another, there were about two hundred days in the year when he was compelled to sit with his hands idle.
- Теперь три тыщи целковых у нас с тобой... На три тыщи сложа руки жить можно. (Ф. Панфёров, Бруски) — 'Now we've got about three thousand roubles between us, and with three thousand a man can live without doing a stroke.'
- Пусть мама ищет свой выход из положения. Но и я не буду сидеть сложа руки! (А. Алексин, Позавчера и послезавтра) — 'Let mama think of a way out of this... but I wouldn't sit idle, either!'
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2 оставаться в стороне
1) General subject: keep out, keep out of, maintain aloofness (от чего-л.), preserve aloofness (от чего-л.), stand off, remain uninvolved (АД), maintain aloofness (от чего-л), stand on the sidelines2) Diplomatic term: sit idle (However, in case negotiations are reopened Denmark will not sit idle (from Danish positions – ICG 2003))Универсальный русско-английский словарь > оставаться в стороне
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3 лежать мёртвым грузом
1) Graphic expression: just sit there doing nothing, lie dormant, lie fallow, sit idle2) Idiomatic expression: sit aroundУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > лежать мёртвым грузом
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4 лежать мертвым грузом
1) Graphic expression: just sit there doing nothing, lie dormant, lie fallow, sit idle2) Idiomatic expression: sit aroundУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > лежать мертвым грузом
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5 сидеть сложа руки
to sit with one's arms folded, to sit idle/doing nothing -
6 бездельничать
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7 бездействовать
1) General subject: at a standstill, be at a standstill, be inactive, drowse, hibernate, lie by, lie dormant, lie on one's oars, non act, sit on one's hands, sleep, stand still (напр, while Washington stood still, these roles were claimed by other cities), to be at a standstill, drift, lie on oars, rest on oars, sit on hands2) Literal: fold one's hands, rest on one's oars3) Poetical language: slumber4) Bookish: non-act5) Economy: be idle, lie idle, stand idle6) Accounting: to be idle7) Oil: idle8) Automation: be down, be out of commission9) Makarov: fold hands -
8 бить баклуши
разг., неодобр.be busy doing nothing; fritter (idle, loiter) away one's time; waste one's time; loaf around; dawdle; cf. twiddle (twirl) one's thumbs (fingers); sit twiddling one's thumbs (fingers); fold one's arms (hands); sit with idle hands; eat lotus; sit like a bump on a log Amer.; sit picking one's noseПапа сказал, что будет нам в деревне баклуши бить, что мы перестали быть маленькими и что пора нам серьёзно учиться. (Л. Толстой, Детство) — Papa said we'd had enough of idling away our time in the country, that we were no longer infants and that it was high time we had begun to study in earnest.
Ведь он не баклуши бил, он трое суток оперировал, почти трое суток. Он оперировал, и его кололи кофеином, чтобы он не заснул стоя... (Ю. Герман, Дорогой мой человек) — After all, he hadn't been loafing around the last three days. He had been operating without a stop, with the nurses giving him caffeine injections all the time so he wouldn't fall asleep oh his feet...
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9 бездельничать
1) General subject: daddle, dally, dawdle, drone, fiddle, fribble, frowst, hang about, have a good slack, have a loaf, have a mike, idle, keep hands in pockets, loaf, loaves, loiter, loiter away one's time, loiter away time, lounge (lounge away one's life (time) - праздно проводить жизнь (время)), lounge about (lounge away one's life; time), maroon, mess about, mike, moulder, potter, put one's feet up, sit, snooze, snooze time away, twiddle, twiddle thumbs, while away, idle time, laze away, linger, loiter away time, squander time, twirl thumbs, moodle (Napoleon often moodled about for a week at a time doing nothing but play with his children or read trash or waste his time helplessly), fiddle-faddle, laze away the time, goof around, veg out2) Colloquial: bum, haze about, knock around, lallygag, laze, laze about, laze around, lollygag, mess around, play grab ass, twiddle ( one's) thumbs, veg3) Australian slang: bugger all, fart around, fart-arse about, play silly buggers, swing the lead4) Scottish language: jauk5) Jargon: bat around, dilly-dally, do a mike, gold brick, goof off, hack around, jack around, rat, screw off screw-off, stooge around, twiddle one's thumbs, rat around, beef, bum around, dead-beat, deadbeat, featherbed, float, jelly, rat fuck6) American English: play the hooky7) Invective: mack around, screw around8) Makarov: loll about doing nothing, not to do a day's-work, not to do a stitch of work, sit back, dawdle away, do mike, fiddle about, fluff off9) Taboo: ass about, bum about, fart about, fart off, fartass about, fat-ass around, fuck off, fuck the dog, fuck up, futy, futz about, go on the bum (см. bum), hell around, jerk, (перевёртыш) kaycuff foe, muck around, not give somebody the sweat of (one's) balls, piddle, piddle about, piss about, piss-ant about, piss-ass about, prick about, putz about, screw about, screw off, shit-ass about, silly-ass about, sit scratching (one's) ballocks, sod about, tit about -
10 сидеть сложа руки
1) General subject: let the grass grow under feet, not to do a hand's turn, sit at home, twirl thumbs, sit idly by, sit back and do nothing, idle one's time away, rest on oars2) Set phrase: sit twiddling one's thumbs -
11 плевать в потолок
прост., неодобр.cf. sit with idle hands; sit twiddling one's thumbs; sit like a dummy (a log); keep one's hands in pockets; fold one's armsГрех - лежать бездельником и в потолок плевать. А работать никогда не грех. (Е. Кравченко, Бычок-дипломат) — It's a sin to sit twiddling your thumbs. But to work is never a sin.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > плевать в потолок
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12 сидеть сложа руки
[sid'et' slozha ruki] To sit with one's arms folded. To be idle; to sit still doing nothing. Cf. To sit twiddling one's thumbs.
Русские фразеологизмы в картинках (русско-английский словарь) > сидеть сложа руки
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13 бездельничать
laze глагол:laze (бездельничать, лентяйничать)fiddle about (бездельничать, шататься без дела)idle about (бездельничать, лениться)lollygag (бездельничать, лодырничать)frowst (бездельничать, сидеть в духоте)dawdle away (бездельничать, зря тратить время)lallygag (бездельничать, лодырничать)fiddle-faddle (бездельничать, болтать вздор)loiter away one's time (бездельничать, терять время)словосочетание: -
14 разводить турусы
разводить турусы < на колёсах>разг., ирон.1) (говорить чепуху, вздор, небылицы) talk nonsense; talk through one's hat; spin a yarn[Никитич] и сам иногда подумает о себе: складно выходит... Такие турусы разведёт, что тебе поп раньше. (В. Шукшин, Охота жить) — And sometimes he would think to himself, darn me, what a speaker I am. He could spin a yarn as good as any priest in the old days.
2) (вести пустые разговоры, тратить время на болтовню) spend one's time in idle chatter (talk); cackle- Нет, ты не торопись; милый человек. Послушай, кто я, что я, зачем пришёл к тебе. Давай присядем... Канатчиков собрался закричать на старика, "некогда, мол, мне турусы на колёсах с тобой разводить", но... покорно опустился в своё кресло. (Г. Марков, Грядущему веку) — 'Don't be hasty, my dear man. First listen to who I am, what I am, and why I came to you. Let's sit down.' Kanatchikov was about to shout that he had no time to spend in idle chatter, but... obediently sat down in his chair.
- В рыбацком деле смелость нужна. И риска тут бояться нечего. Ежели лёд раскололся и река пошла, тут брат, нечего турусы разводить и народ расхолаживать. (В. Закруткин, Плавучая станица) — 'A fisherman's job requires grit. You've got to take risks. When the ice has broken up and started moving it's no time for cackling and throwing a wet blanket on people.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > разводить турусы
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15 стоять
1) General subject: bivouac, insist, line (чего-либо), quarter, rank (кого-л.), stand (he is too weak to stand - он еле держится на ногах от слабости), stand about, stand around, stand buff, stand up, stickle (за что-л.), stop, straddle, to be for (за кого-л., что-л.), to be ranged with (on the side of, smb., smth.) (за кого-л., что-л.), line up, stand apart, stand by (за что-л.), stand for (за что-л.), sit (о предметах), (за что-л.) stand for3) Colloquial: stick by (за кого-л.), wait a minute4) Obsolete: patrocinate (за что-л.)5) Construction: park6) Mathematics: Tags (labels) precede each term under consideration (перед чем-либо), be, be at rest, be idle, be shut down, be situated, remain7) Metallurgy: last (о футеровке)8) Automation: dwell9) Robots: stay10) Makarov: hold (о погоде), hold up (о хорошей погоде) -
16 В-270
ВОРОН (ГАЛОК, МУХ) СЧИТАТЬ ВОРОН (МУХ) ЛОВИТЬ all coll, disapprov VP subj: human1. (often pres (in questions), neg imper, or infin with хватит, нечего etc) to look around aimlessly, absent-mindedly, getting distracted from what one is doingX ворон считает \В-270 X stands (sits etc) gapingX stands (sits etc) there just looking (around)Neg Imper ворон не считай - (in limited contextswith verbs of motion) lookwatch) where you're going.«Чего ворон-то считаете? - закричала Анна и замахала рукой. - Не видите, кто приехал?» (Абрамов 1). "Are you going to stand there just looking?" Anna waved her arms. "Don't you see who's come?" (1b).«Как пройти в управление, к Дудыреву?» - «Топай прямо да ворон не считай. Толкнут ненароком...» Семён направился по обочине дороги, оглядываясь во все стороны (Тендряков 1). "Can you tell me how to get to the Director's office, to Dudyrev?" "Straight ahead, only look where you're going, or there'll be an accident." Simon made his way along the path by the road, looking around him on all sides (1a).2. to spend time aimlessly, lazily, be idleX ворон считает = X loafs (around)X twiddles (sits around twiddling) his thumbs X does absolutely nothing X sits on his hands X goofs off.Прекрати ворон считать! Сейчас же садись за уроки! Quit goofing off! Sit down and do your homework right now!3. to be inactive (in a situation when some action is required or expected)X ворон считает - X (stands back (by) and) does nothingX sits on his hands X takes no action.Вопрос о том, какому отделу отдать освободившееся помещение, ещё не решён, но если вы будете ворон считать, то ваш отдел его точно не получит. It has yet to be decided which department will get the offices that have been vacated, but if you don't take action yours certainly won't. -
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ТОЧЙТЬ/ПОТОЧЙТЬ ЛЯСЫ (БАЛЙСЫ) (с кем) highly coll VP subj: human to be occupied with idle chatter (often to the detriment of the matter at hand)X точит лясы (с Y-ом) = X is chewing the fat (with Y)X is shooting the breeze (the bull) (with Y) X is wagging his tongue....За делом Алёша лясы не точил, знал прежде дело, а уж потом всё остальное... (Распутин 4). Alyosha never chewed the fat when there was work to be done, he did the work first and then whatever else he might have felt like... (4a).Вот мы с вами сидим, лясы точим и ноги чешем, а там, за окном, быть может... всему свету наступает конец... (Терц 6). Here we sit, you and I, wagging our tongues and scratching our heels, and who knows if there, outside the window...the whole world is coming to an end... (6a)....Лясы» or «балясы» were small, decorative columns used to adorn banisters. While making them, craftsmen entertained themselves by chatting with each other. м -
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НА ПРИКОЛЕ PrepP Invar usu. subj-compl with copula)1. nautical ( subj: a noun denoting a ship, a vessel) sth. is secured by cables, anchors etc: X на приколе = X is mooredX is (lies) at anchor.2. ( subj: a noun denoting a car, a piece of machinery, equipment) sth. is inactive, not in operationX (стоит) на приколе ' X is idle (laid up, not in use).«Райкомовская легковуха ( substand = легковая машина) зимой на приколе - не сидеть же тебе сложа руки» (Абрамов 1). "The District Committee jalopy is laid up in the winter, and you can't just sit twiddling your thumbs" (1a) -
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РУКИ В БРЮКИ ходить, слоняться и т. п. highly coll Invar usu. adv fixed WO(to be) idle, doing nothing: (walk (stand etc) around) with one's hands in one's pockets(be (sit somewhere etc)) twiddling one's thumbs.Как тебе не стыдно! Все работают, а ты стоишь руки в брюки. You should be ashamed of yourself! Everyone else is working and you're standing around twiddling your thumbs. -
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СЛОЖА РУКИ сидеть, less often ждать, стоять и т. п. coll Verbal Adv Invar adv fixed WO(to be) idle, inactive ( usu. when the situation requires some decisive, energetic action): (be) sitting on one's hands(be sitting around (about)) twiddling one's thumbs (be sitting around) doing nothing (be sitting) idly by.«Та-ли!» - кричала она, как бы выплёскивая из рыданий имя дочери. «А-а-а», - рыданьем отвечали женщины со двора тёти Маши, как бы говоря ей: и мы скорбим с тобой, и мы, как видишь, не сидим сложа руки (Искандер 3). "Ta-li!" she shouted, casting up her daughter's name from a wave of sobs. "A-a-ah," the women sobbed in reply from Aunt Masha's yard, as if to tell her: We too grieve with you, and as you see, we're not sitting on our hands (3a).Лизка - молодчага, не сидела сложа руки. Пока он (Михаил) ходил за житом, она заново подтопила печь... (Абрамов 1). Lizka was splendid, she hadn't been sitting around twiddling her thumbs. While he (Mikhail) was out getting the barley she had gotten the stove hot again (1a).«А не думаете ли вы, Елена Станиславовна, что нам нужно продолжать работу?.. Нельзя сидеть сложа руки!» (Ильф и Петров 1). "Don't you think we ought to carry on without them, Elena Stanislavovna?...We can't sit around doing nothing" (1a)....Сложа» is the old form of the short active participle of the verb «сложить»the corresponding modern form is the perfective verbal adverb «сложив».
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idle — I UK [ˈaɪd(ə)l] / US adjective Word forms idle : adjective idle comparative idler superlative idlest 1) a) machines or factories that are idle are not being used The extra power stations are idle when demand is lower. stand/lie/sit idle: Valuable … English dictionary
idle — i|dle1 [ aıdl ] adjective 1. ) machines or factories that are idle are not being used: The extra power stations are idle when demand is lower. stand/lie/sit idle: Valuable machinery is left to lie idle for long periods. a ) workers who are idle… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
sit — (v.) O.E. sittan to be seated, to seat oneself (class V strong verb; past tense sæt, pp. seten), from P.Gmc. *setjanan (Cf. O.S. sittian, O.N. sitja, O.Fris. sitta, M.Du. sitten, Du. zitten, O.H.G. sizzan, Ger. sitzen, Goth. sitan), from PIE … Etymology dictionary
idle — 01. My son has been [idle] for weeks. He really needs to find himself a summer job. 02. Our city s buses are sitting [idle] today due to a strike by maintenance workers. 03. The city s road crew has been [idled] by poor weather. 04. The factories … Grammatical examples in English
idle — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} verb Idle is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑engine {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} adj. 1 lazy VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ remain, stay … Collocations dictionary
idle — Synonyms and related words: abortive, absurd, airy, amble, ambling, asinine, asleep, at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, baseless, be a sideliner, be still, bootless, brogue, bum, bum around, catchpenny,… … Moby Thesaurus
sit around — verb be around, often idly or without specific purpose The object sat in the corner We sat around chatting for another hour • Syn: ↑sit • Hypernyms: ↑be • Verb Frames: Something s … Useful english dictionary
sit — Synonyms and related words: be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be seated, be with child, breed, brood, bum around, call together, carry, carry young, clock, convene, convoke, cover, do nothing, ensconce, gestate, goof off, hang around, hatch … Moby Thesaurus
sit back — Synonyms and related words: be a sideliner, be still, coast, delay, do nothing, drift, hang fire, hibernate, idle, lie dormant, not budge, not stir, rest, sit it out, stagnate, vegetate, wait and see, watch and wait … Moby Thesaurus
sit — v 1. seat oneself, be seated, Sl. take a load off one s feet, plop down; squat, crouch, hunker down, perch, roost; straddle, sit astride, bestride, bestraddle; repose, lean, recline, loll, lounge, sprawl; (all of a hen) brood, incubate, cover,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
sit on one's hands — verb To be idle when action is needed, perhaps because of fear, ignorance, complacency, indecisiveness, or dislike of the person(s) or situation … Wiktionary