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41 high and mighty
1. n phrсильные мира сего (тж. high and mighties)2. adj phrShe found it was not such a wonderful thing to be in the chorus... After a few days she had her first sight of those high and mightles - the leading ladies and gentlemen. (Th. Dreiser, ‘Sister Carrie’, ch. XXXVIII) — Керри убедилась, что быть статисткой далеко не такое счастье, как ей казалось раньше... через несколько дней она впервые лицезрела "сильных мира сего" - артистов и артисток, игравших первые роли.
высокомерный, надменный, властный, заносчивыйThe girl sneered. ‘Oh, him! He was a-braggin'. High and mighty.’ (J. Steinbeck, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, ch. XX) — - Кто, он? Да он просто хвастается, подумаешь, нос задрал! - Девочка презрительно улыбнулась.
He ought to stop doing nothing and criticizing everybody. If he had some work, he wouldn't be so high and mighty. (J. Lindsay, ‘Betrayed Spring’, ch. II) — Ему пора перестать бездельничать и критиковать всех. Если бы он взялся за работу, вся спесь мигом бы с него сошла.
3. adv phr...she's a little bit too high and mighty, your Jean. (S. Chaplin, ‘The Watchers and the Watched’, ch. 5) —...она же такая, много из себя строит, твоя Джин.
высокомерно, надменноThey talk high and mighty, but they owe everyone in town. (KHD) — Они в долгу у всего города, а спеси хоть отбавляй.
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42 high and mighty
выcoкoмepный, нaдмeнный, влacтный, зaнocчивыйHe ought to stop doing nothing and criticizing everybody. If he had some work, he wouldn't be so high and mighty (J. Lindsay). The girl sneered. 'Oh, him! He was a-braggin'. High and mighty' (J. Steinbeck) -
43 once-mighty
Общая лексика: некогда могущественный (The fall of Rome into corruption through gaming and numerous other vices would seal its fate as a once-mighty civilization.) -
44 get the whip hand of smb.
(get (have или hold) the whip(-)hand of (или over) smb.)иметь или держать кого-л. в полном подчинении; взять верх над кем-л‘Yes,’ he muttered, addressing himself to the bottle, ‘You mark my words; they can't down me. I'm more than a match for them... I'll get the whip hand o' them.’ (A. J. Cronin, ‘Hatter's Castle’, book II, ch. 1) — - Да, - бормотал он, обращаясь к бутылке, - запомни мои слова: им меня не одолеть. я им не ровня, я сумею их подчинить себе... я возьму верх над всеми.
‘Don't come that high and mighty look over me,’ sneered Brodie, with a short hateful laugh. ‘You can't pull the wool over my eyes. It's me that's got the whip hand o' you this time.’ (A. J. Cronin, ‘Hatter's Castle’, book III, ch. 10) — - Нечего глядеть на меня с таким высокомерием! - проворчал Броуди с коротким злобным смешком. - Вы мне глаза не замажете. Теперь вы у меня в руках.
In fact, he held the whip hand of the situation... (M. Mitchell, ‘Gone with the Wind’, ch. XLVII) — Фактически Ретт был хозяином положения...
Large English-Russian phrasebook > get the whip hand of smb.
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45 neck of the woods
2) разг. округа, район; глушь, захолустье; ≈ медвежий угол [первонач. амер.]Say, it certainly is a mighty great pleasure to see you, my boy! What you doing in this neck of the woods? (S. Lewis, ‘Elmer Gantry’, ch. XXX) — Знаешь, я страшно рад видеть тебя, старина! Что ты тут делаешь, в наших краях?
Old Doc Vickerson, he did the first 'pendectomy in this neck of the woods, you bet! (S. Lewis, ‘Arrowsmith’, ch. I) — Старый доктор Викерсон первым в этом захолустье сделал операцию аппендицита.
...what happens to him in this godforsaken neck of the woods? He's disgraced. He's in jail. (W. Saroyan, ‘Peace, It's Wonderful’, ‘The Love Kick’) —...что еще ждет его в этом городишке, в этой богом забытой дыре? Он опозорен. Он сидит в тюрьме.
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46 put to the sword
предать мечу, истребить, убить на войнеThey said the duke was approaching with a mighty army, and that he had vowed to put all the inhabitants to the sword to revenge the death of his brother. (W. S. Maugham, ‘The Making of a Saint’, ch. XXVIII) — Говорили о том, что герцог с огромной армией приближается к городу и что он поклялся истребить всех жителей, чтобы отомстить за смерть брата.
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47 there are spots in the sun
посл.и на солнце есть пятна; см. тж. spots in the sunYou are a strange instance of the little frailties that beset a mighty mind. If there had never been a telescope in the world, I should have been quite certain from my observation of you, Chiv, that there were spots on the sun. (Ch. Dickens, ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’, ch. 4) — Вы являете собой удивительный пример могучего духа, подверженного мелким слабостям. Если не было бы на свете телескопа, я из своих наблюдений над вами мог бы убедиться, что и на солнце есть пятна!
Large English-Russian phrasebook > there are spots in the sun
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48 ‘Under the spreading chestnut tree...’
«Под развесистым каштаном...», первая строка стихотворения Генри Лонгфелло «Деревенский кузнец» [*‘Village Blacksmith’]. Начинается словами:Under the spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands.
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands.
(Пер. М. Донского)
США. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > ‘Under the spreading chestnut tree...’
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49 neck of the woods
глушь, зaxoлуcтьe; мeдвeжий угoл [пepвoнaч. aмep.]Say it certainly is a mighty great pleasure to see you, my boy! What you doing in this neck of the woods? (S. Lewis). How is business in your neck of the woods just now? -
50 almighty al·mighty
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51 ‘Casey at the Bat’
«Кейси с битой», стихотворение конца XIX в. Эрнста Тейера [Thayer, Ernest Lawrence]. Стихотворение заканчивается словами: ‘There is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out' («Нет радости в Мадвилле — могучий Кейси выбыл из игры»)США. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > ‘Casey at the Bat’
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52 Nimrod (Legendary biblical figure, the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Gn:10:8-12)
Религия: НимродУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > Nimrod (Legendary biblical figure, the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Gn:10:8-12)
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53 Trisagion (A hymn in the liturgies of the Greek and Eastern Churches in which a threefold invocation to God is the burden - Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy and Immortal, have mercy on us)
Религия: "Трисвятое"Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Trisagion (A hymn in the liturgies of the Greek and Eastern Churches in which a threefold invocation to God is the burden - Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy and Immortal, have mercy on us)
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54 Deborah (Prophet and heroine in the Old Testament who inspired the Israelites to a mighty victory over their Canaanite oppressors. Jgs: 4-5)
Религия: ДебораУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > Deborah (Prophet and heroine in the Old Testament who inspired the Israelites to a mighty victory over their Canaanite oppressors. Jgs: 4-5)
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55 Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
<01> Некоторые люди по происхождению являются лишь тенями великих имен. Lucan (Лукан).Англо-русский словарь цитат, пословиц, поговорок и идиом > Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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56 put\ on\ the\ high-and-mighty
arrogáns, felszáll a magas lóraEnglish-Hungarian dictionary > put\ on\ the\ high-and-mighty
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57 poderosos, los
= mighty, theEx. In practice, however, such democratic attitudes among the mighty seem to have as little effect on the behaviour of those who serve them as did the remark made by King George V at his Jubilee in 1935, 'I'm really quite an ordinary sort of chap'. -
58 сильные мира сего
Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > сильные мира сего
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59 сильные мира сего
the mighty of this world, the great ones of this world, the high and mightyРусско-английский словарь по общей лексике > сильные мира сего
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60 _влада
the best government is that in which the law speaks instead of the lawyer better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven a crown is no cure for a headache divide and rule dress a monkey as you will, it remains a monkey still everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over fish begins to stink at the head the great fish eat up the small he sits not sure that sits too high he that cannot obey cannot command high places have their precipices the higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail if you can't command yourself, you can't command others it is better for a town to be governed by a good man than by good laws it is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope the king can do no wrong kings have long arms a new broom sweeps clean the pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God the statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician sudden power is apt to be insolent, sudden liberty saucy; that behaves best which has grown gradually that government is best which governs least
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