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1 BUTTER
• Butter is good for anything but to stop an oven - Маслом огонь не заливают (M)• Butter to butter is no relish - Масло по маслу не приправа (M)• No butter will stick to my (his) bread - Везет как утопленнику (B), На бедного Макара все шишки валятся (H) -
2 пачка масла
1) General subject: packet of butter, print (расфасованного), stick of butter2) Makarov: print butter -
3 пачка масла весом 113 граммов
General subject: stick of butter (4 sticks = 1 pound)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > пачка масла весом 113 граммов
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4 Палка о двух концах
The result of an action can have both good and bad consequencesCf: It cuts both ways (Am., Br.). The same heat that melts the wax will harden the clay (Br.). The same knife cuts both bread and fingers (Br.). The same sunshine that will melt butter will harden the clay (Br.). The same sun that will melt butter will harden clay (Am.). When you pick up a stick at one end, you also pick up the other end (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Палка о двух концах
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5 растяпа
1) General subject: a sad sack, drip, goof ball, goof up, goof-ball, softie, softy, stick in the mud, stick-in-the-mud2) Colloquial: Sad Sack, butter-fingers, butters, slugger3) Jargon: goof-up, muff, schlemiel, klutz, schlemazel, schlemozzle, schlimazl, (у которого всё из рук вываливается) butterfingers, goof ball goof-ball, sack, tourist4) American English: clutz -
6 неумный
1) General subject: clueless, footling, idle headed, idle-headed, insensate, silly, unintelligent, unsane, unwise, artless2) Colloquial: numpty3) American: bubbleheaded5) Student language: butter head, butterhead6) Invective: shit-stick -
7 порция в 4 унции или ок. 115 г сливочного масла
Gastronomy: butter stick (амер. способ отмерить масло)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > порция в 4 унции или ок. 115 г сливочного масла
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8 Везет как утопленнику
One is utterly unlucky. See Если не везет, так не везет (E)Cf: As good luck as had the cow that struck herself with her own horn (Br.). Bread always falls buttered side own (Am.). The bread (The cake) never falls but on its buttered side (Br.). I must have killed a Chinaman (Br.). Just bad luck (Am.). No butter will stick to my bread (Br.). What is worse than ill luck? (Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Везет как утопленнику
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9 На бедного Макара все шишки валятся
Troubles always befall an unlucky and miserable person. See К мокрому теленку все мухи льнут (K), Кому не повезет, тот и на ровном месте упадет (K), На убогого всюду каплет (H), По бедному Захару всякая щепа бьет (П)Var.: На бедного Макара все шишки валятся - и с сосен, и с ёлокCf: All the Tracys have always the wind in their faces (Br.). Flies go to (hunt) the lean horse (Br.). The lean dog is all fleas (Am.). A man born to misfortune will fall on his back and fracture his nose (Am.). No butter will stick to his bread (Br.). An unfortunate (unlucky) man would be drowned in a tea-cup (Br.). An unhappy man's cart is easy to overthrow (Am.). An unhappy man's cart is easy to tumble (Br.). What is worse than ill luck? (Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > На бедного Макара все шишки валятся
См. также в других словарях:
(a) stick of butter — a stick of butter/margarine/american phrase a long thin piece of butter or margarine that you buy from a shop Thesaurus: amounts and pieces of foodhyponym types of food or drinkhypernym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
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