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121 Все хорошо в меру
See Хорошего понемножку (X)Var.: Во всём надо знать меру Cf: Enough is as good as a feast Am., Br.). Measure is a treasure (Am.). Moderation in all things (Am., Br.). Safety lies in the middle course (Br.). There is a measure in all things (Am., Br.). There is enough where there is not too much (Br.). Without measure medicine will become poison (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Все хорошо в меру
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122 близок локоть, да не укусишь
близок (близко) локоть, да не укусишьпосл.lit. your elbow is near, but you can't bite it; cf. so near and yet so far; there's many a slip between the cup and the lip- Да, - сказал он, - близок локоть, да не укусишь... Есть счастье, да нет ума искать его. (А. Чехов, Счастье) — 'Yes,' he said, 'your elbow is near, but you can't bite it. There is fortune, but there is not the wit to find it.'
- Москвич? - Москвич, - отвечаю с придыханием... - Никто ничего не знает, сержант. Можем тронуться через час, а можем и через сутки. - Комиссар смотрит на меня и, улыбнувшись, добавляет: - Что, близок локоть, да не укусишь? (В. Кондратьев, Лихоборы) — 'A Moscow man?' 'Yes.' I say and gasp... 'Nobody knows anything, Sergeant. We may be here one hour or twenty-four.' He turns to me and adds with a smile, 'So near and yet so far - eh?'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > близок локоть, да не укусишь
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123 комар носа не подточит
разг.there's not a weak spot anywhere; it's all done (fixed up) to a "T"; it is tip-top; < it is> neat and slick; you can't pick a hole in it; < even> a bloodhound couldn't sniff it outЖенские отрицательные типы, где Тургенев слегка карикатурит (Кукшина) или шутит (описание балов), нарисованы замечательно и удались ему до такой степени, что, как говорится, комар носа не подточит. (А. Чехов, Письмо А. С. Суворину, 24 февраля 1893) — The negative types of women where Turgenev is slightly caricaturing (Kukshina) or jesting (the descriptions of balls) are wonderfully drawn, and so successful, that, as the saying is, you can't pick a hole in it.
Забелина.
А ордер вам дали? Председатель. Не сомневайтесь. Всё чисто и правильно... Комар носу не подточит! (Н. Погодин, Кремлёвские куранты) — Zabelina: Was there a warrant? Chairman: Of course there was. All signed and stamped. Every comma in place!- Всё будет в аккурате, Федя. Выдолблю [тайник] так, что комар носу не подточит. А поставлю его в сараюшке, в уголок. (Г. Марков, Сибирь) — 'It'll be tip-top, Fedya, don't worry. I'll hide it in the wood shed.'
Они ходко дочесали подлеском до переднего края, выждали момент, когда прогорела ракета, и поползли по-пластунски по стерне к низине. Комар носа не подточит! (О. Смирнов, Гладышев из разведроты) — They had quickly slipped through the undergrowth to the forward area, waited for the moment when a flare faded out and crawled through the stubble to the low-lying area. Neat and slick!
- Доказательства у тебя нет. Это факт. А Ярчук сейчас всё подчистит, комар носа не подточит. (В. Аксёнов, Коллеги) — 'You've got no proof and you can be sure he'll cover his traces so thoroughly that even a bloodhound couldn't sniff him out.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > комар носа не подточит
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124 нет худа без добра
1) General subject: a blessing in disguise, blessing in disguise, ill wind ((полный вариант звучит как it's an ill wind that blows good to nobody - дословно "плох тот ветер, что не принесет хоть кому-то хорошее"), it is a mixed blessing2) Set phrase: bad luck often brings good luck, every cloud has a silver lining (something good and useful may turn out to be the result of a bad happening), every cloud has its silver lining (something good and useful may turn out to be the result of a bad happening), every dark cloud has a silver lining (дословно: Всякое тёмное облако серебром оторочено), every white has its black, and every sweet its sour, it is an ill wind that blows nobody good (дословно: Плох тот ветер, который никому добра не приносит), it's an ill wind that blows any good, it's an ill wind that blows nobody good, it's an ill wind that turns none to good, no great loss without some small gain, no great loss without some small gain (дословно: Не бывает большой потери без хотя бы малой выгоды), nothing so bad as not to be good for something, nothing so bad in which there is not something of good, nothing so bad, as not to be good for something (дословно: Нет ничего настолько плохого, что бы для чего-нибудь не было полезным), the darkest hour is near the dawn, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good3) Current usage: every cloud has silver liningУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > нет худа без добра
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125 Г-374
ни грана чего NP gen Invar the resulting phrase is usu. subj / gen with нет, не осталось) not the smallest amount ofnot a (one) grain (ounce, bit, iota) of."Я...никогда и в глаза не видела ни одного из обвинённых, не только что всех, - сказала я. - Но в словах, которые о них пишутся, нет ни грана правды. За это я ручаться могу...» (Чуковская 2). UI have never seen one of the accused with my own eyes, let alone all of them," I said. "But there's not one grain of truth in what they write about them. That I can vouch for..." (2a). -
126 ни грана
[NPgen; Invar; the resulting phrase is usu. subj/ gen with нет, не осталось]=====⇒ not the smallest amount of:- not a < one> grain <ounce, bit, iota> of.♦ " Я...никогда и в глаза не видела ни одного из обвинённых, не только что всех, - сказала я. - Но в словах, которые о них пишутся, нет ни грана правды. За это я ручаться могу..." (Чуковская 2). "I have never seen one of the accused with my own eyes, let alone all of them," I said. "But there's not one grain of truth in what they write about them. That I can vouch for..." (2a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ни грана
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127 недостаточно
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128 мы совсем не хотим этим сказать, что
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