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there's no pin to choose between them

  • 1 there's not a pin to choose between them

    Concise English-Russian phrasebook > there's not a pin to choose between them

  • 2 not a pin to choose between them

    разг.
    один другого стоит; ≈ одного поля ягода, два сапога пара, из одного теста сделаны

    ‘Why, when you come to think of it - you're as bad as me.’ He came across the room and added with a kind of respect: ‘There's not a pin to choose between us.’ She looked up with childish and devoted eyes and swore solemnly: ‘Not a pin.’ (Gr. Greene, ‘Brighton Rock’, part VI, ch. II) — - Ведь если подумать, ты ничуть не лучше меня, - он подошел к Розе и чуть ли не с почтением добавил: - Мы из одного теста сделаны. Роза по-детски преданно взглянула на него и торжественно подтвердила: - Действительно, из одного.

    They get to know ten chaps... and there isn't a pin to choose between these chaps. (J. B. Priestley, ‘Let the People Sing’, ch. XI) — Девушки познакомились с десятком парней... Но все они были похожи друг на друга как две капли воды.

    Superintendent Harper said curiously: ‘What put you on to this particular girl? They all looked scared to death and there wasn't a pin to choose between them as far as I could see.’ (A. Christie, ‘The Body in the Library’, ch. 14) — Любопытство взяло верх, и старший инспектор Харпер спросил: - Почему ваше внимание привлекла именно эта девушка? Ведь все они перепуганы до смерти, и, насколько я могу судить, толку от них ото всех не добьешься.

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  • 3 not a pin to choose between them

       paзг.
       oдин дpугoгo cтoит; oднoгo пoля ягoдa, двa caпoгa пapa, из oднoгo тecтa cдeлaны
        They get to know ten chaps... and isn't a pin to choose between these chaps (J. B. Priestley). Siperintendent Harper said curiously: 'What put you on to this particular girl? They all looked scared to death and there wasn't a pin to choose between them as far as I could see' (A. Christie)

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  • 4 pin

    [pin] 1. noun
    1) (a short, thin, pointed piece of metal used eg to hold pieces of fabric, paper etc together, especially when making clothes: The papers are fastened together by a pin.) bucika, zaponka
    2) (a similar but more ornamental object: a hat-pin.) okrasna igla
    2. verb
    1) (to fasten with a pin: She pinned the material together.) speti
    2) (to hold by pressing against something: The fallen tree pinned him to the ground.) pritisniti
    •
    - pinhole
    - pinpoint
    - pin-up
    - pin down
    - pins and needles
    * * *
    I [pin]
    noun
    bucika, igla, zaponka; technical količ, klinček, moznik, žebljiček, zatič, zagozda; šilo, osnik, lunek; strelica, kazalec (kompasa), krak (šestila); vijak pri violini; figuratively malenkost, mrvica; kuhinjski valjar; plural colloquially noge; sport kegelj
    not to care a pin — ne jemati v mar, ne upoštevati
    there's no pin to choose between them — nobene razlike ni med njima, podobna sta si kot jajce jajcu
    to knock s.o. off his pins — podreti koga na tla
    in a merry pin — vesel, razpoložen
    on a merry pin — okajen, opit
    colloquially on one's pins — na nogah, čil in zdrav
    II [pin]
    1.
    transitive verb
    pripeti (to, on na), zapeti, speti (up); pribiti, prebiti (s klinom, žebljičkom itd.); pritisniti, pritiskati ( against ob, to na); pritisniti koga ob zid ( down), obvezati koga k čemu ( down to); vezati, ukleščiti (sovražne sile, šahovske figure; down); natančno določiti, definirati ( down); technical zakliniti, pričvrstiti ( down);
    2.
    intransitive verb
    biti pričvrščen; prilepiti se
    to pin the blame on s.o. — pripisati komu krivdo
    to pin one's hopes on — graditi na čem, verovati v kaj
    to pin back s.o.'s ears — nahruliti koga, pretepsti, prekositi, premagati
    to pin o.s. to s.o. — prilepiti se komu, živeti na njegov račun

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