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• A bad seamstress uses a long thread - Длинная нитка - ленивая швея (Д)• Long thread, a lazy tailor (A) - Длинная нитка - ленивая швея (Д)• Thread follows the needle (The) - Куда иголка, туда и нитка (K)• Thread is cut where the thread is thinnest (The) - Умный в гору не пойдет, умный гору обойдет (У)• Where the needle goes, the thread follows - Куда иголка, туда и нитка (K) -
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Set phrase: the needle knows where its thread goes, thread follows needle (said (in good humour) to mean: where the husband goes, there his wife should go, or (less frequently) children should follow their parents, or the like)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > куда иголка, туда и нитка
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посл.where the needle goes, the thread must follow; the thread follows the needle- На курсы медсестёр я, конечно, не поехала. - И правильно. Куда же ехать от мужа! - сказал Марютин. - Куда иголка, туда и нитка. Загорай теперь с нами до победного конца... (Ю. Трифонов, Утоление жажды) — 'I haven't gone to take the nursing course.' 'Quite right too. Leave your husband!' said Mariutin, outraged. 'Where the needle goes, the thread must follow. You'll broil here with us to the victorious end...'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > куда иголка, туда и нитка
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One person acts like the other. (This is said of two closely related people, especially of a husband and a wife)Var.: Куда грива, туда и хвост. Куда лошадь, туда и телега. Куда пастушок, туда и посошокCf: The thread follows the needle (Am.). The wagon must go wither the horses draw it (Br.). Where the needle goes, the thread follows (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Куда иголка, туда и нитка
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КУДА ИГОЛКА, ТУДА И НИТКА (saying) (usu. in refer, to the influence a man has over his wife, but occas. in refer, to the influence parents have over their children etc usu. refers to s.o. 's following another in a physical or geographical sense, but may also refer to s.o. 's adopting another's point of view, values etc) where one person goes (what one person does etc), the other will go (will do etc): where the needle goes, the thread follows (will follow). -
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• КУДА ИГОЛКА, ТУДА И НИТКА[saying]=====⇒ (usu. in refer, to the influence a man has over his wife, but occas. in refer, to the influence parents have over their children etc; usu. refers to s.o.'s following another in a physical or geographical sense, but may also refer to s.o.'s adopting another's point of view, values etc) where one person goes (what one person does etc), the other will go (will do etc):- where the needle goes, the thread follows < will follow>.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > куда иголка, туда и нитка
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