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1 не сносить головы
( кому)разг.smb. will lose his head; smb. will never live through it; smb. would not come out alive; smb. will come to grief"Ах, боже мой, боже мой! Куда теперь деваться? Не сносить мне головы..." (М. Шолохов, Поднятая целина) — 'Oh dear, oh dear! What shall I do now? I'll never live through it.'
Было в характере Травина что-то такое, от чего Угодников постоянно опасался за безопасность поручика. "Не сносить ему головы! - часто раздумывал канонир. - Сгинет нипочём. От характера!" (С. Голубов, Багратион) — There was something in Travin's character that kept Ugodnikov in constant apprehension for the Lieutenant's safety. 'He'll lose his head! He'll go down for nothing at all! His temper will be the death of him!' he often thought to himself.
Он слышал, что это не соловей, а жаворонок. И если жаворонок, то, значит, уже утро. Свиданью конец. Пора расставаться. Иначе ему, Ромео, не сносить головы. (А. Рекемчук, Мальчики) — He could hear that it was not the nightingale but the lark, and since it was the lark that meant morning, an end to their being together, time to part, otherwise he Romeo would not come out alive.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > не сносить головы
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2 веселье
1) General subject: May-game, amusement (to find amusement in something - находить удовольствие в чем-либо), amusements, bowl, cakes and ale, cheer, craic (Irish word for fun/enjoyment that has been brought into the English language. usu. when mixed with alcohol and/or music), exhilaration, festivity, fling, frisk, frolic, fun, fun and games, gaiety, gambol, gasser, gayety, glee, hilarity, jinks, jollity, joy, joyance, joyfulness, lark, may game, merriment, merry-making, merrymaking, mirth, rattle, rejoicing, rejoicings (часто pl), revel, shindy, splore, spree, sunniness, sunshine, the bowl, tittup, vivacity, blast, easy time3) Dialect: (бездумное) tittup5) Obsolete: gig6) Bookish: jocundity7) British English: (не в плане "веселиться", имеется ввиду сам "сок" чего-либо, что-то самое интересное) jam out of doughnut (Who took the jam out of my doughnut? - who spoilt my fun? (Кто мне всю "малину" испортил?))9) Jargon: bum, hoo-per-doo, hooper-dooper, hooperdoo, hoopla, whooper-dooper, brannigan, jag, meet10) Makarov: a high old time, fun and frolic11) Phraseological unit: a dash of humour
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