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21 без пяти минут
( кто)разг.on the verge of becoming smth.; within a stone's throw of being smth.; the next thing to smth.; almost a full-fledged specialist- Ну, а ты как прыгаешь? - Женя лениво сообщил, что он без пяти минут врач. (Ю. Герман, Дело, которому ты служишь) — 'Well, and how are tricks with you?' Indolently, Yevgeny replied that he was almost a full-fledged doctor.
Семнадцатилетние пареньки, без пяти минут техники, мы всё же мало что умели делать полезного и практического для того, чтобы завод обрадовался нам и принял нас как нужных и равных. (В. Солоухин, Мошенники) — At that time, although we were within a stone's throw of being graduate technicians and had already reached the ripe age of seventeen, our skills and abilities were such that the plant had little cause to receive us with open arms.
- Люба, тебя к телефону! И скажи матери, что её зять без пяти минут лауреат! (В. Белов, Всё впереди) — 'Liuba, it's for you! And tell your mother that her son-in-law is practically a State Prize winner.'
Валерия - дама учёная, без пяти минут профессор, а у него, кроме собственных рук, никаких научно-технических аргументов. (С. Абрамов, Требуется чудо) — Valeria was a learned lady, on the verge of becoming a professor, whereas he, except for his own hands, had no scientific or technical arguments to put forward.
Если не считать, что он аферист, а она ограниченная девчонка с наклонностями хищницы, то они без пяти минут Ромео и Джульетта. (В. Черняк, Час пробил) — If it weren't for the fact that he was a shady dealer and she a small-minded girl with the tendencies of a bird of prey, they would be the next thing to Romeo and Juliet.
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22 mukomuko
upper part of a sugarcane used as a signal, stuck on top of a pipi horeko (stone mound); also any small stick on top of a stone mound, as a signal. -
23 мелкая фракция
1) General subject: fine fraction (АД)2) Construction: fine fraction (заполнителя)3) Metallurgy: fines breeze, low-mesh size (в меш)4) Oil: small fraction fines5) Oilfield: fines, small fraction6) Automation: fine grain (абразивного круга) -
24 на безрыбье и рак рыба
1) General subject: in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed is a king2) Set phrase: all's good in a famine, better a bare foot than none, better a lean jade than an empty halter, better a small fish than an empty dish (used to mean: something is better than nothing, a little is better than none), better one-eyed than stone-blind, half a loaf is better than no bread, half a loaf is better than none, there is small choice in rotten apples, they that have no other meat, bread and butter are glad to eat, we'll make the best of what there is, we'll make the best of what we have3) Saying: something is better than nothingУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > на безрыбье и рак рыба
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25 анкер с подрезкой
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26 волокуша
1) Engineering: bagless beach seine, dragharrow, planer, sledge (бесколёсная повозка), tuck net (невод)2) Agriculture: drag harrow, farm leveller, fiddle, float, float leveler, float levelfer, leveling drag, levelling drag, planker, sled, slicker, slide, smoothing harrow, sweep3) Construction: scraper bucket4) Automobile industry: smoothing harrow (с.-х.)6) Road works: scraper7) Forestry: braking drag, drag, drag brake, go-devil, stone boat8) Fishery: drag seine, fingering trawl, small trawl9) Makarov: fingerling trawl -
27 капнииды
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28 ушебти
1) General subject: ushabt (изображавшие слуг погребальные статуэтки)2) Religion: ushabti figure (Any of the small statuettes made of wood, stone, or faience that are often found in large numbers in ancient Egyptian tombs) -
29 Москва от копеечной свечки сгорела
Insignificant causes may result in grave consequences. See Мала искра, да великий пламень родит (M), Невелика болячка, а на тот свет гонит (H)Var.: Москва от искры загорелась. От копеечной свечи Москва сгорелаCf: From a spark a conflagration (Br.). Great events from little causes spring (Br.). A little fire burns up a great deal of corn (Br.). A little hole will sink a ship (Am.). A little spark kindles a great fire (Am,, Br.). Little sticks kindle large fires (Am.). A little stone may upset a large cart (Am.). A little wind kindles a big flame (Am.). A small leak will sink a great ship (Am., Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Москва от копеечной свечки сгорела
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30 капнииды
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31 щебень
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32 kakaro
to carve a hole in a stone, like the paega holes in which were stuck the roof poles of the hare paega. to extract the flesh of a shellfish (to eat it) using a small stick or a pointed bone. -
33 pureva
rock, stone (small enough to be thrown by hand).
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