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1 sleuths
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2 sleuths
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3 sleuth
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4 stooge
I n1) infml2) AmE slI'm not going to be your stooge — Я не собираюсь быть у тебя "шестеркой"
The guy's a stooge. Ignore him — Этот парень просто "шестерка". Не обращай на него внимания
3) AmE slII vi AmE sl -
5 lay by the heels
1) уст. заковать в кандалы; посадить в колодки2) редк. задержать, схватить, арестовать, посадить в тюрьму (тж. have или set by the heels)‘Gentlemen,’ continued Florizel... ‘This s a fellow who has long eluded me, but whom, thanks to Dr. Noel, I now have tightly by the heels.’ (R. L. Stevenson, ‘New Arabian Nights’, ‘The Suicide Club’, ‘The Adventure of the Hansom Cab’) — - Джентльмены, - продолжал Флоризель... - перед вами человек, который в течение долгого времени ускользал от меня, но который теперь, благодаря доктору Ноэлю, находится целиком в моей власти.
Perhaps, for example - they meant to lay all the giants by the heels. They were all to be arrested together. (H. G. Wells, ‘The Food of the Gods’, book III, ch. IV) — Может быть, они хотят арестовать всех гигантов сразу и посадить их в тюрьму?
It was the belief of Scotland Yard that he fullest publicity was the best chance of laying the murderer by the heels. The population of Great Britain turned itself into an army of amateur sleuths. (A. Christie, ‘The ABC Murders’, ch. XVII) — Скотланд-ярд считал, что полная гласность в этом деле - лучший способ задержать убийцу. Все население Британии превратилось в армию ищеек-любителей.
3) сделать беспомощным; свалитьRomanticism... proceeded to hold the field till it was laid by the heels by realism. — Романтизм... продолжал занимать ключевые позиции, пока реализм не одержал над ним верх.
The rheumatism laid him by the heels. — Ревматизм сделал его совсем беспомощным.
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