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1 spend a penny
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urinate:It's no good. I can't hold it in. I shall have to spend a penny.Spend a penny derives from the days when there were door locks on the outside of cubicles in public lavatories which could only be opened by inserting one old penny into the lock. This was not just the pre-euro era. It was the pre-decimal era. The expression is still in frequent use today.Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > spend a penny
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expr BrE infmlJust say the word if you want to spend a penny — Захочешь в туалет, скажешь
The new dictionary of modern spoken language > spend a penny
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1) Австралийский сленг: воспользоваться туалетом, сходить в туалет2) Эвфемизм: пойти в туалет (не обязательно платный), пойти в туалет, сходить по важному делу, сходить по очень важному делу, сходить кое-куда3) Табуированная лексика: помочиться -
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Пойти кое-куда (т.е. в туалет)Difficulties of the English language (lexical reference) English-Russian dictionary > Spend a penny
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I must go and spend a penny. — Мне нужно кой-куда. До перехода на десятичную монетную систему в Англии (1971 г.) нужно было платить одно пенни (one penny) за пользование общественным туалетом, и выражение to spend a penny стало эвфемизмом для слова «помочиться». Оно употребляется до сих пор.English-Russian dictionary of expressions > to spend a penny
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Общая лексика: мне нужно выйти, мне нужно кое-куда, мне нужно кой-кудаУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > I want to spend a penny
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19 to spend every penny one earns
English-Russian combinatory dictionary > to spend every penny one earns
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20 i want to spend a penny
Conversation vocabulary and slang. English-Russian dictionary > i want to spend a penny
См. также в других словарях:
spend a penny Brit. — spend a penny Brit. euphemistic urinate. [with ref. to coin operated locks of public toilets.] → spend … English new terms dictionary
spend a penny — ► spend a penny Brit. informal, euphemistic urinate. Main Entry: ↑spend … English terms dictionary
spend a penny — (UK) This is a euphemistic idiom meaning to go to the toilet … The small dictionary of idiomes
spend a penny — verb eliminate urine Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug • Syn: ↑make, ↑urinate, ↑piddle, ↑puddle, ↑micturate, ↑piss, ↑pee, ↑pee pee, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
spend a penny — British & Australian, informal if you say you are going to spend a penny, you mean you are going to go to the toilet. Excuse me, I must go and spend a penny … New idioms dictionary
Spend a penny — To spend a penny is to go to the bathroom. It is a very old fashioned expression that still exists today. It comes from the fact that in ladies loos you used to operate the door by inserting an old penny … The American's guide to speaking British
spend a penny — Meaning Go to the toilet. Origin In England public toilets used to have coin (penny) operated locks. Hence the graffiti Here I sit broken hearted, Paid a penny and only farted … Meaning and origin of phrases
spend a penny — verb To use the toilet … Wiktionary
spend a penny — (UK) This is a euphemistic idiom meaning to go to the toilet. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
spend a penny — to urinate Normally referring to urination by either sex, although only women were required, for the purpose of urination, to produce that particular coin needed to operate the lock of a British public lavatory turnstile or cubicle … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
spend a penny — Vrb phrs. To urinate, to go to the lavatory. A euphemism derived from a fee charged in public toilets, albeit usually only in the women s; the saying is based on a pre inflatatory figure. Informal … English slang and colloquialisms