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21 тусоваться
1) General subject: mess around, mingle, whoop it up, get out and about2) Colloquial: hang out (посещать различные модные сборища, вечеринки to attend fashionable gatherings, to socialize; with smb.), make the scene, party3) Jargon: reel (reel with someone - тусоваться, разъезжать, шататься с кем-либо), hang4) American English: rally -
22 разобраться
1) General subject: get things straight (So let me get things straight, if I go on Thursday I can't come back till Saturday?), puzzle out, sort through, study out (в чем-л.), take in, understand, grasp, unpack, clear up a mess (в проблемах), figure out (Can you help me figure that out? - Помогите мне в этом разобраться.), (с чем-л.) look into sth. (I'll look into that. - Я с этим разберусь.), find way around (find one's way around smth), sort out (sort things out) (http://www.dreamcricket.com/dreamcricket/news.hspl?nid=9934&ntid=3), get to the bottom (of smth - в чем-то), investigate (С этим стоит разобраться. - It's certainly worth investigating.), (с чем-л.) get sth. straightened out, deal with, handle, grapple with, make sense, get a handle on2) Colloquial: get outside of (в вопросе и т. п.), (в ком-либо) get (someone's) number, (с чем-л.) get sth. taken care of (Please email us an invoice and we will get it taken care of. - мы с ним разберёмся), get a sense, wrap head around3) Mathematics: clear up5) Jargon: unscramble (в чем-то, с чем-то)6) Phraseological unit: be on to -
23 умереть
1) General subject: be food for worms, become food for worms, breathe last, breathe last gasp, breathe one's last, bump off, bust, cash in one's check, close one's days, conk, croak, cross the Great Divide, depart, die, die testate, divide, do and die, do or die, draw one's last breath, end days, evaporate, expire, get one's quietus, get quietus, go aloft, go bung, go meet Maker, go off the hooks, go the way of all things, go to Maker, go to glory, go to one's account, hand in one's check, hand in one's chips, hop the perch, hop the stick, hop the twig, join the great majority, kick the bucket, kick up one's heels, lay bones, pack up, part, pass away, pass beyond the veil, pass in, pass in one's chips, pass on, pass over, pay one's debt to nature, perish, pike, pop off (особ. внезапно), pop off the hooks, quit this scene of troubles, slip breath, slip one's cable, slip wind, snuff, snuff (обыкн. to snuff it), succumb (от чего-либо), suffer death, take exit, take the ferry, to be at peace, to be food for worms, to be with the Saints, to slinky (one's) breath (one's wind), to slinky (one's) cable, turn toes to the daisies, breath last gasp, decease, gasp last, go from hence into the other world, go hence, go to grass, go to last home, go to long home, go to long rest, go to long rest, go to own place, hand in checks, kick up heels, leave the stage, make exit, make exit, pay debt to nature, quit the stage, shut lights out, step off, sup with Pluto, go for a Burton, flatline (of a person - to die - Origin: 1980s: from flat + line - with reference to the continuous straight line displayed on a heart monitor, indicating death)2) Medicine: (ящик) box3) Colloquial: go west, pass out, peg out, pip out, skip (часто skip out), snuff out, tip over the perch, hand in checks, hand in one's dinner-pail, turn in one's dinner-pail, bite the big one4) Dialect: tip off the perch, tip up heels5) American: hand in chips, hand in one's account, kick, pass in chips, be called to account, go to account6) Obsolete: give up the ghost, starve7) Literal: quit the scene8) Latin: aut vincere aut mori, exit9) Military: lose the number of mess10) Rare: end, stick spoon in the wall11) Australian slang: throw a seven12) Bible: enter within the veiling13) Jargon: buy the farm, cash ( one's) chips, check out, cut one's cable, dance off, guit it, hand in (one's) checks (chips), kick in, kick off, kick the bicket, knock off work, off, pass in (one's) checks (chips), pass in the checks, pop off, shoot star, take the last (long) count, turn belly up (go belly up), turn toes up, turn up (one's) toes (to the daisies) turn (one's) toes up, turn up one's toes, turn up toes, hang up hat, hung up hat, lay down fork and knife, pass in checks, slip cable, buy the big one (I don't plan to buy the big one for at least another 30 years. Я не планирую умереть, как минимум, ещё тридцать лет.), take the (long) count, get one's ticket punched, bump, cash in (one's) chips, conk out, give (someone) the foot, go, kiss off, kiss the dust, knock it, knock it off, knock off, throw in the sponge (towel), tip over14) Graphic expression: meet death15) Sublime: be no more, to be no more16) American English: step off the curb17) Makarov: demise, go beyond the veil, go beyond the veil (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go down into the tomb, go home, go home (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go out of the world, go over to the majority, go over to the majority (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go the way of all flesh, go the way of all living, go the way of all the earth, go the way of all the earth (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go the way of all the flesh, go the way of all the flesh (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go the way of nature, go to (one's) last home, go to (one's) last home (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to (one's) long home, go to (one's) long home (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to (one's) long rest, go to (one's) long rest (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to (one's) own place, go to (one's) own place (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to glory (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to heaven, go to heaven (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to the great majority, join the angels, join the majority, join the silent majority, lay (one's) bones, pass over to the great majority, shut (one's) lights out, slip (one's) breath, slip (one's) wind, snuff it, yield up breath, yield up the ghost, call off all bets, cash in checks, cash in chips, check in, close days, cock nose, crease it, cross the Great D., cross the Stygian ferry, cross the Styx, cross the bar, cross the river, cut cable, dine with Mohammed, do the seven, draw last breath, drop a cue, drop off, end days, enter behind the veil, enter beyond the veil, enter within the veil, die away (о чувствах), die down (о чувствах), cross over (перейти в мир иной)18) Taboo: crap out, lead apes in hell20) Idiomatic expression: cash in one's chips (применяется как глагол) -
24 расхлёбывать кашу
прост.pay for the mess one made; clear up the mess; get to the bottom of smth.; disentangle smth.; cf. face the music- А ты знаешь, как вы могли нашкодить? Хорошо, хлопцы успели повытаскивать всё оружие из пещеры, а то довелось бы расхлёбывать вашу кашу. (В. Беляев, Старая крепость) — 'Do you know what trouble you might have caused? It's a good thing we managed to get all the arms out of the cave in time, or we should have had to pay for the mess you made.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > расхлёбывать кашу
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25 запутаться
1) General subject: be entrapped, be in a maze, bungle (в споре, дискуссии), catch (в проволоке и т.п.), get into a fuddle, get into a mess, get into a muddle (в чем-л.), get into hot water, get mixed, immesh, kink, ravel, tangle, to be entrapped, to be lost in the clouds (в аргументах), to be out of bearing, lost (im lost in the meaning), tie oneself up into a knot (в проблемах), tie oneself in knots (в чем-л.), tie oneself up in a knot, get one's wires crossed2) Naval: foul3) Mathematics: become involved4) British English: (в объяснениях) tie up in knots -
26 навести порядок
1) General subject: clean up the act, put to rights, reduce to order, set to rights, put right, set right, deal with (They pointed out, in one location in one parcel, that there was a temporary piece of insulation that had been put on a piece of pipe that we dealt with immediately.), have / get sth. sorted out (Там нужно навести порядок. - I've got tons of papers down in the basement, that has to be sorted out.), stop the rot, bring discipline (to), sort out the mess, put things right2) Sakhalin energy glossary: put the house in order3) Makarov: establish order4) Idiomatic expression: get (one's) act together -
27 заставь дурака богу молиться, он и лоб разобьёт
заставь дурака богу молиться, он и лоб разобьёт (расшибёт)посл.cf. give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself; he would throw out the child along with the bath; he will make a mess of tying his bootlaces; over-zeal will damage the causeКруглова.
Эти головы меры не знают: либо он молчит,... либо того натворит, что с ним наплачешься. Пословица-то эта про них говорится: заставь дурака богу молиться, так он себе лоб разобьёт. (А. Островский, Не всё коту масленица) — Kruglova: People like him do not know the right measure: he either keeps mum... or makes such a mess that you get plenty of trouble. Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself, as the proverb goes.Вдруг она [машина] судорожно дёрнулась, разбила бампером перед собой лёд, ухнула с фарами и затихла, достигнув дна. - Что и требовалось доказать, - сказал Локтев. - Заставь дурака богу молиться... (В. Мурзаков, Мы уже ходим, мама...) — Then it shuddered convulsively, the bumper broke the ice ahead, the headlights disappeared into the water and the engine stalled as the wheels reached the bottom. 'And serves you bloody well right,' said Loktiev. 'Some people will make a mess of tying their bootlaces.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > заставь дурака богу молиться, он и лоб разобьёт
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28 мешать
1) General subject: agitate, baffle, balk, baulk, be in the road, be in the way, blockade, clog, clutter, cramp (развитию), cumber (движению), detain (движению и т. п.), discommode, embar, encumber, get in somebody's road, gum, hamper, handicap, head off, hedge, hinder, hinder (кому-л.), hold back (карьере и т. п.), impede, incommode, interfere, intermediate, legislate against, militate against, mingle, mix, obscure (обзору), obstruct, oppose, overslaugh, pinch, poke (кочергой), preclude, preclude from, prevent, prohibit from, put a crimp in (в чем-либо), put a crimp into (в чем-либо), put off (от чего-либо), rouse, shackle, short circuit, short-circuit (чему-л.), stickle, stir, stonewall, stop, stop way (кому-л.), stymie, throw a monkey-wrench into (чему-либо), thwart (желаний), tie up, to be in the (smb.'s) road (препятствовать, кому-л.), trammel, bar, disturb, get in way, interrupt, keep from, put a spoke in wheel, put out, obstruct a person in the discharge of his duties (кому-л.), stand in light (кому-л.), disrupt (disrupt performance - мешать осуществлению деятельности), stand in light (кому-л.), stick in gizzard (надоедать, кому-л.), get in the way (препятствовать, кому-л.), throw a spanner in the works, cramp style, cramp someone's style, act as a check, (don't bother me! не мешай мне!) bother, lump together, halt2) Naval: upset4) Colloquial: dilly-dally, stall, mess up (мешать кому-то)5) American: don't bother me( when I'm doing something) (реклама "Carl's Jr":"Don't bother me.I'm eating!")7) Literal: stand in somebody's light8) Engineering: bar (препятствовать), bar from smth., interfere (вмешиваться), prohibit (препятствовать), stir (перемешивать)9) Rare: estop10) Chemistry: churn11) Mathematics: interfere with12) Railway term: inhibit13) Law: discount14) Automobile industry: foil15) Diplomatic term: militate16) Psychology: violate18) Jargon: qualm19) Business: deny, discourage, prohibit20) Invective: fart around22) General subject: engage (деталям проворачиваться)23) Makarov: bar from (smth.) (чему-л.), block, cut across, damage, get in (one's) way, get in the way, head (движению), hinder (smb.) (кому-л.), hound (кому-л.), muddle (жидкость, напиток), occlude, preclude from (сделать что-либо), foul up (движению)24) Taboo: fuck with somebody (кому-л.), screw with somebody (кому-л.) -
29 выяснить
1) General subject: ascertain, bring to light, clear up (дело), develop, explore, inquire into, see, study out, have out to have it out, clear up a mess (недоразумение), get at (что-л.), make certain that (что-л.), make sure that (что-л.), cast light on, discover, learn, drag to light, glean2) Colloquial: suss out3) Bookish: enucleate5) Diplomatic term: CD clear up6) Jargon: let daylight (sunlight) into8) oil&gas: figure out9) Phraseological unit: be on to (To figure out) -
30 приводить
привести1. (вн.) bring* (d.)2. (вн. к) lead* (d. to), bring* (d. to); (к результату и т. п.) result (in)это к добру не приведёт — it will lead to no good, no good will come of it
3. (вн. к) мат. reduce (d. to)4. (вн.; о фактах, данных и т. п.) adduce (d.), cite (d.); (назвать, перечислять) list (d.)приводить (удачную) цитату — cite / make* a (good*) quotation
приводить доказательства — produce / adduce proofs
приводить пример — give* an example, cite an instance
приводить что-л. в пример — cite smth. as an example
5. (вн.; в какое-л. состояние):приводить в восторг — delight (d.), enrapture (d.), entrance (d.)
приводить в бешенство — drive* mad (d.), throw* into a rage (d.)
приводить в отчаяние — reduce / drive* to despair (d.)
приводить в смятение — throw* into confusion / disarray (d.)
приводить в замешательство, смущение — throw* into confusion (d.)
приводить в затруднение — give* difficulty (i.), cause difficulties (i.)
приводить в изумление — surprise (d.), astonish (d.)
приводить кого-л. в чувство — bring* smb. to his senses; bring* smb. round разг.
приводить в соответствие (с тв.) — bring* into accord (d. with)
приводить в порядок — put* in order (d.), arrange (d.), tidy (d.); fix (d.) разг.
приводить в беспорядок — make* untidy (d.), disorder (d.), disarrange (d.), get* into a mess (d.); воен. throw* into confusion (d.)
приводить в негодность — put* / bring* out of commission (d.), make useless / worthless (d.)
приводить в действие, движение — set* / put* in motion (d.), set* / get* going (d.)
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приводить в исполнение — carry out (d.), execute (d.), implement (d.), carry into effect (d.)приводить кого-л. к присяге — administer the oath to smb., swear* smb. in
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31 рехнуться
1) General subject: be bats, be bonkers, be mad as a March hare, be off one's beam, gaga, go off the hooks, go out of one's head, have bats in belfry, to be (as) mad as a March hare, to be bonkers, to be off (one's) nut, to be out of (one's) senses, go daft, go off head, go out of mind, take leave of one's senses, (сойти с ума) mess with one's mind2) Colloquial: take leave of senses, lose one's marbles3) Rude: go off chump, go off nut5) Makarov: be off nut, go off ( one's) chump, go off (one's) head, go off (one's) nut, go out of (one's) mind, go out of (one's) senses, go round the bend, take leave of (one's) senses -
32 заваривать кашу
разг make a mess of smthсам завари́л э́ту ка́шу, сам её и расхлёбывай! — you got yourself into this mess, so get yourself out of it!
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33 вот тебе, бабушка, и Юрьев день
погов.cf. here's (that's, there's) a fine (nice, pretty) how-d'-ye-do (for you)!; here's a pretty mess!; that's a fine (pretty, nice, rare) kettle of fish!; that's a pretty go (pass, thing)!; now we're (you're) in for it!; now we're (you're) catching it!Хозяйка.
Кто-то бежал из Москвы, а велено всех задерживать да осматривать. Григорий (про себя). Вот тебе, бабушка, Юрьев день. (А. Пушкин, Борис Годунов) — Hostess: Someone has escaped from Moscow, and orders have been given to detain and search everyone. Grigory (aside): Here's a pretty mess!По левую сторону городничего: Земляника, наклонивший голову несколько набок...; за ним судья с растопыренными руками, присевший почти до земли и сделавший движенье губами, как бы хотел посвистать или произнесть: "Вот тебе, бабушка, и Юрьев день!" (Н. Гоголь, Ревизор) — To the left of the Mayor is Zemlyanika, his head cocked to one side...; next to him is the Judge, arms outstretched, squatting almost on the floor, his lips pursed as if to whistle, or to say 'Well, this is a pretty kettle of fish!'
Большов.
Ну, Липа, давай руку! Липочка. Как, что это за вздор? С чего это вы выдумали? Большов. Хуже, как силой возьму! Устинья Наумовна. Вот тебе, бабушка и Юрьев день! (А. Островский, Свои люди - сочтёмся) — Bolshov: Now, Lipa, give me your hand. Lipochka: How! What nonsense is this? Where did you get this rubbish? Bolshov: Look out that I don't have to force you! Ustinya Naumovna: Now you're catching it, young lady!Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > вот тебе, бабушка, и Юрьев день
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34 потерпеть неудачу
1) General subject: abort, break down, bring eggs to a bad market, bring eggs to a wrong market, bring one's eggs to a bad market, bring one's hogs to the wrong market, bring pigs to the wrong market, burst up, curdle, fail, get the cheese, go flop, go to the wall, lose out, meet with a reverse, meet with failure, miscarry, mucker, shipwreck, strike the ball under the line, stub ( one's) toe, suffer a set-back, to be in the blue, bust up, crash, experience a failure, fall short of, miss the bus, go to the wall (поражение), meet with a rebuff (провал), take a knock, take the knock, come a buster2) Colloquial: blow( one's) shot, fall down (to fall down on one's work - не справиться со своей работой), flop, flue4) Ironical: pigs to a pretty market, bring eggs to a fair market5) Military: miss fire6) Australian slang: arse up, come a gutser, go down the tubes, luck out7) Diplomatic term: flub8) Politics: сock-up9) Abbreviation: f10) Jargon: bust, die standing up, kerflummux, lay an egg, suck, turn belly up, fold, flummox, tube11) Business: be shipwrecked, be unsuccessful, collapse, fall short, peter out12) Makarov: be in the blue, bring ( one's) eggs to the wrong market, bring (one's) hogs to a bad market, bring (one's) pigs to a bad market, bring (one's) pigs to the wrong market, come a mucker, go fut, go phut, suffer a reverse, suffer a setback, come a cropper, come off second-best, come to grief, draw a blank, drive pigs to a fine market, drive pigs to a pretty market, fall by the wayside, fall down, fall through, fuck up13) Taboo: go to hell14) Phraseological unit: blow it (To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.) -
35 разводить
I несов. - разводи́ть, сов. - развести́; (вн.)1) ( доставлять в разные места) take (d), conduct (d)разводи́ть часовы́х — post sentries
разводи́ть по дома́м — take (d) to their homes
госте́й развели́ по их ко́мнатам — the guests were shown (to) their rooms
разводи́ть карау́лы воен. — mount the guards
разводи́ть войска́ по кварти́рам воен. — take / disperse troops to their billets
2) (раздвигать, отделять) part (d), move / pull (d) apart, separate (d)разводи́ть ве́тки — part the branches
разводи́ть мост (подъёмный) — raise a bridge; ( поворотный) swing a bridge open
3) ( разбавлять) dilute [daɪ-] (d)4) ( растворять) dissolve [-'zɒlv] (d); ( разбавлять) dilute (d)разводи́ть спи́рт водо́й — dilute alcohol with water
5)разводи́ть ого́нь — light / kindle a fire
разводи́ть костёр — light a campfire
разводи́ть пары́ — raise steam, get up steam
разводи́ть диску́ссии — indulge in discussions
разводи́ть беспоря́док — make a mess
разводи́ть антимо́нии — см. антимония
7)8) жарг. (кого́-л на вн.; хитростью вынуждать потратиться) trick / con (smb out of); work (smb for)они́ развели́ её на 1000 рублей — they tricked / conned her out of 1,000 roubles
попро́буй развести́ дя́дюшку на но́вую маши́ну — see if you can work your uncle for a new car
••II несов. - разводи́ть, сов. - развести́; (вн.) воен.разводи́ть рука́ми — ≈ make a helpless gesture, lift one's hands (in dismay)
mount (d)разводи́ть карау́лы — mount the guards
III несов. - разводи́ть, сов. - развести́разводи́ть часовы́х — post sentries
( супружескую пару) divorce (d)IV несов. - разводи́ть, сов. - развести́(вн.; животных, птиц) breed (d), rear (d); ( растения) cultivate (d), grow (d); (сады, парки и т.п.) make (d), plant (d), lay out (d) -
36 сам заварил кашу, сам и расхлёбывай
1) General subject: as you brew so must you bake, drink as you have brewed, who breaks pays, who breaks, pays, you buttered your bread now sleep in it (Шутливая передлка пословицы: You've made your bed, now sleep in it.), you got yourself into this mess - it's you who should get yourself out of it (literal meaning description)2) Set phrase: as you brew, so must you drink (дословно: Что заварил, то и расхлёбывай), who breaks, pays (дословно: Кто ломает, тот и платит), you made your bed, now lie in it (дословно: Сам постелил, вот теперь и ложись)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > сам заварил кашу, сам и расхлёбывай
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37 сам кашу заварил, сам и расхлёбывай
1) General subject: make one's bed and lie in it2) Set phrase: as a tree falls, so shall it lie, as you brew, so must you drink (you haw got yourself into trouble, so you must get yourself out of it or you must answer for what you have done), as you cooked your porridge, so must you eat it, it's your mistake, now face the music, let him stew in his own juice, who breaks, pays, who knows how to make a mess, must know how to redress, you called the tune, now you must pay the piper, you made the broth, now sup it, you made your bed, now lie on itУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > сам кашу заварил, сам и расхлёбывай
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38 сами кашу заварили, сами и расхлёбывайте
Set phrase: as a tree falls, so shall it lie, as you brew, so must you drink (you haw got yourself into trouble, so you must get yourself out of it or you must answer for what you have done), as you cooked your porridge, so must you eat it, it's your mistake, now face the music, let him stew in his own juice, who breaks, pays, who knows how to make a mess, must know how to redress, you called the tune, now you must pay the piper, you made the broth, now sup it, you made your bed, now lie on itУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > сами кашу заварили, сами и расхлёбывайте
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39 О-79
В ОДИНОЧКУ PrepP Invar adv1. separately, not with others, apart from othersaloneby itself (himself etc) singly (in limited contexts of people only) in solitude.Выйдя из лесу, они увидели стоявший в одиночку дом. Coming out of the woods, they caught sight of a house standing by itself.Одно время начальник лагеря еще такой приказ издал: никаким заключённым в одиночку по зоне не ходить (Солженицын 7). At one time the camp commandant had given orders that zeks were not to walk about the camp singly (7c).He любят русские люди мелочничать по углам, в одиночку, кустарным способом... Мы употребляем вино для усиления жизни и душевного разогрева, мы только жить начинаем, когда выпьем... (Терц 6). We Russians are not fond of tippling amateurishly, in solitude, each in his corner..What we drink for is to fire our souls and to feel we are alive It's when we drink that we come to life... (6a).2. by one's own efforts, without the participation of or help from others: (all) aloneon one's own by o.s. single-handed(ly) (in limited contexts) go it alone make one's own way (do one's own thing etc). Ему не нужна поддержка начальства, ему не нужна любовь друзей, душевная общность с женой, он умеет воевать в одиночку (Гроссман 2). No, he didn't need the authorities' support, his friends' affection or his wife's understandinghe could fight on alone (2a).«Долго же вы от нас скрывались... И что же, так вот все и действовали в одиночку?»... «Да, в одиночку» (Войно-вич 4). "You've been hiding from us a long time....Now tell us, were you acting alone all the time?"..."That's right, all alone" (4a).Зa обедом Марья Ивановна сказала Жене: «Евгения Николаевна, если разрешите, я могу пойти вместе с вами... Вдвоём как-то легче». Женя смутилась, ответила: «Нет, нет, спасибо большое, уж эти дела надо делать в одиночку» (Гроссман 2). While they were eating, Marya Ivanovna said to Yevgenia: "Let me go with you, Yevgenia Nikolaevna....It's always easier with someone else." Yevgenia looked very embarrassed. "No, no," she said, "but thank you very much. There are things one has to do on one's own..." (2a).По молодости он спешил двумя руками сворачивать горы в одиночку... (Солженицын 1). In his youth he had been in a hurry to move mountains single-handed (1a).Я не любил строй и в столовую или по утрам в уборную пробираться предпочитал в одиночку. Чаще всего эта операция мне удавалась, но... и я время от времени попадался (Войнович 5)____I had no love for formation and preferred to make my own way to the mess hall or the latrine in the morning. Usually I was successful, but...I did get caught every once in a while (5a). -
40 П-308
ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ ХУЖЕ ГУБЕРНАТОРСКОГО obsoles, coll, humor VP subj. with бытьв usu. pres fixed WOthe situation is extremely unpleasant, difficult etcthis is (things are in) a fine messit's about as bad as it can get s.o. is up the creek (without a paddle).According to academician Viktor Vinogradov, «губернатор» is an old term from horse-breeding jargon for a male horse that was used to excite a mare before she was mated with a stallion of good breeding. He points out, though, that 19th-cent. writers assumed the phrase to be based on the office of a "governor," the common meaning of «губернатор».
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