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21 to pay through the nose
«Платить через нос». Платить втридорога, платить бешеные деньги. Из всех существующих объяснений о происхождении этого выражения наиболее вероятным представляется так называемый nose tax («налог на нос»). В IX в. в Ирландии завоеватели-норманны ввели подушный налог. У тех, кто не уплатил, резали ноздри.I know nothing about used cars, so I paid through the nose. — Я ничего не знал о подержанных машинах, поэтому заплатил втридорога за эту.
English-Russian dictionary of expressions > to pay through the nose
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22 to hit the nose hard enough to draw blood
to hit the nose hard enough to draw blood/to get a bloody nose разбить в кровь/расквасить носEnglish-Russian combinatory dictionary > to hit the nose hard enough to draw blood
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23 hit it on the nose
разг.≈ попасть в точку‘But why do you suppose this one took six hours, and this one three months?’ ‘...you probably felt like painting when you did the quick one, and were getting fed up when you did the other.’ ‘You've hit it on the nose’ (J. O'Hara, ‘Assembly’, ‘Mrs. Siratton of Oak Knoll’) — - Как вы думаете, почему я потратил шесть часов на эту картину и три месяца на другую? -...Вам, вероятно, хотелось писать, когда вы работали над первой, а когда корпели над второй, то чувствовали, наверное, отвращение к живописи. - Вы попали в самую точку.
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24 as plain as the nose on every face
Разговорное выражение: совершенно ясно (The answer to that mathematical problem was as plain as the nose on every face-two hundred. Ответ в той математической задаче был совершенно ясен-двести.)Универсальный англо-русский словарь > as plain as the nose on every face
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25 take it through the nose
expr AmE slHe went into the john and most of us knew he had to take it through the nose right then — Он пошел в туалет, и мы почти все знали, что он там нюхает кокаин
The new dictionary of modern spoken language > take it through the nose
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26 pay through the nose
платить бешеные деньги I shan't shop at that store again, they make you pay through the nose for perfectly ordinary goods. ≈ Я больше не буду делать покупки в этом магазине, они заставляют платить бешеные деньги за совершенно обычные товары.Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > pay through the nose
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27 on the nose
on the nose без опоздания -
28 pull the nose
pull the nose (о)дурачить -
29 be as plain as the nose on one's face
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30 cut off the nose of
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31 lead s.o. by the nose
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32 pay through the nose for sth.
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33 punch in the nose
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34 talking through the nose
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35 talk through the nose
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36 it's as plain as the nose on your face
está tan claro como el aguaEnglish-spanish dictionary > it's as plain as the nose on your face
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37 to pay through the nose
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38 bleeding from (at) the nose
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39 on the nose
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40 to lead by the nose
to lead by the nosefazer alguém seguir cegamente.
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