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1 big
1. adj1) великий; крупний2) високий3) широкий4) гучний, сильний5) дорослий6) важливий, значний7) повний; сповнений8) благородний, великодушний9) вагітна (тж big with child)B. Ben — «Великий Бен» (годинник на будинку англійського парламенту)
big mouth — амер. хвастун
big head — амер. самовдоволена (самозакохана) людина
big bug (gun, pot, wig) — важна персона, «шишка»
big name — знаменитість, видатна особа
big noise — амер. хазяїн; шеф; хвастун
big time — вистава; успіх
big top — купол цирку; цирк
big tree — секвоя; мамонтове дерево
2. adv розм.хвастовито; з важним виглядомto talk big — хвастати, вихвалятися
3. v розм.будувати* * *I a1) великий, крупний; високий; широкий2) голосний, гучний, сильний3) дорослий4) важливий, значний5) ( with) вагітна (тж. big with child)6) багатий на ( що-небудь); повний ( чого-небудь)7) великодушний, шляхетний8) aмep.; cл. знаменитий9) як компонент складних слів ( big-) більше-, широко-; big-boned ширококостийII adv1) хвалькувато, з важним виглядом2) з розмахом3) успішноIII = bigg IV vшотл. будувати -
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[bɪg]adj1) вели́кий; просто́рийbig repair — капіта́льний ремо́нт
big business — вели́кий капіта́л
2) висо́кий; широ́кий3) доро́слий4) по́вний; спо́вненийbig with news — по́вний нови́н
5) важли́вий, значни́й6) хвастови́тий7) благоро́днийbig heart — великоду́шний
8) вагі́тна (тж. big with child)••Big Ben — Вели́кий Бен ( годинник на будинку англійського парламенту)
big bug — ва́жна персо́на, "ши́шка"
big game — вели́кий звір
big gun — 1) важка́ гарма́та 2) значна́ осо́ба
big head амер. — зарозумі́лість, пиша́ння
big mouth амер. — балаку́чий хвалько́
big noise — 1) си́льний шум; перен. хва́стощі 2) амер. sl. голова́, шеф
to look big — набира́ти пова́жного ви́гляду
to talk big — хвали́тися
too big for one's boots розм. — самовпе́внений
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I a1) великий, крупний; високий; широкий2) голосний, гучний, сильний3) дорослий4) важливий, значний5) ( with) вагітна (тж. big with child)6) багатий на ( що-небудь); повний ( чого-небудь)7) великодушний, шляхетний8) aмep.; cл. знаменитий9) як компонент складних слів ( big-) більше-, широко-; big-boned ширококостийII adv1) хвалькувато, з важним виглядом2) з розмахом3) успішноIII = bigg IV vшотл. будувати -
4 _шлюб; дім; сім'я
accidents will happen in the best regulated families a bad husband cannot be a good man before you go in double harness, look well to the other horse better one house spoiled than two big houses have small families, and small houses big families a blind man's wife needs no paint the calmest husbands take the stormiest wives choose your love, then love your choice choose your man as you choose your shoes – for comfort and long wear a deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple don't marry a girl who wants strawberries in January each husband gets the infidelity he deserves earlier wed, sooner dead every family has a black sheep every man can tame a shrew but he that has one everyone can keep house better than her mother until she tries the father is the guest who best becomes the table first thrive and then wife a friend married is a friend lost a good husband makes a good wife the grey mare is the better horse happy is the bride that the sun shines on he that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man he who has a fair wife needs more than two eyes honest men marry soon, wise men not at all he that marries a widow and four children marries four thieves he that takes a wife takes a care he that tells his wife news is but newly wed he that will thrive must first ask his wife he who marries for wealth sells his liberty the husband is always the last to know the husband is the head of the house, but the wife is the neck and the neck moves the head if you wish praise, die; if you wish blame, marry it is not every couple that is a pair keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards a kind wife makes a faithful husband the Lord makes a man, but the wife makes a husband love takes away the sight, and matrimony restores it a man is newly married who tells his wife everything marriage goes by contrasts marriage is a lottery marriage makes or mars a man marriages are made in heaven marry above your match and you get a master marry in haste, and repent at leisure marry a handsome man and you marry trouble marry late or never marry your son when you please and your daughter when you can men are what their mothers made them most men get as good a wife as they deserve the mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law never interfere with family quarrels never marry for money, but marry where money is a nurse spoils a good housewife nurses put one bit in the child's mouth and two in their own observe the mother and take the daughter put not your hand between the bark and the tree a shotgun marriage won't last longer than the honeymoon sweet-talk to the old lady to get to the daughter there are as many good stepmothers as white ravens there is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks he has her to marry once is a duty, twice is folly, thrice is madness the woman who obeys her husband rules him want makes strife between man and wife when going to sea, pray once; when going to war, pray twice; when going to be married, pray thrice when the husband earns well, the wife spends well when you get married you tie a knot with your tongue that you can't untie with your teeth where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage whoever is tired of a happy day, let him take a wifeEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _шлюб; дім; сім'я
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