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  • 1 Б-251

    с бухты-барАхты (c бухта-барАхта obs) сделать, сказать что и т. п. coll PrepP these forms only adv
    (to do, say sth.) rashly, suddenly, without taking time to think, without preparation or deliberation: (do (say) sth.) without thinking (out of the blue, all of a sudden)
    (do sth.) on the spur of the moment (say sth.) off the top of one's head (in limited contexts) (do sth.) just like that.
    (Бабакина:) И эти дела не делаются так, с бухты-барахты (Чехов 4). (В.:) And these things are not done like that, just out of the blue... (4a).
    Был он нетороплив, рассудителен, и уж если говорил что-то - это было окончательно, весомо, не с бухты-барахты (Буковский 1). Не was slow-moving and meditative, and if he ever said anything, it was his final word, carefully weighed, never off the top of his head (1a).
    Почитайте, пожалуйста, если вам не трудно читать на улице, здесь. Я стихи люблю». Он посмотрел на меня с сомнением - как это так читать неизвестно кому с бухты-барахты? - но вынул бумаги (Чуковская 2). "Please do read a little if it is not too difficult for you to read here, in the open. I love poetry." He looked at me dubiously, wondering how on earth he could read to someone he didn't know just like that, but he took out the papers (2a).

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  • 2 с бухта-барахта

    • С БУХТЫ-БАРАХТЫ <C БУХТА-БАРАХТА obs> сделать, сказать что и т.п. coll
    [PrepP; these forms only; adv]
    =====
    ⇒ (to do, say sth.) rashly, suddenly, without taking time to think, without preparation or deliberation:
    - (do < say> sth.) without thinking <out of the blue, all of a sudden>;
    - (do sth.) on the spur of the moment;
    - (say sth.) off the top of one's head;
    - [in limited contexts](do sth.) just like that.
         ♦ [Бабакина:] И эти дела не делаются так, с бухты-барахты (Чехов 4). [В.:] And these things are not done like that, just out of the blue... (4a).
         ♦ Был он нетороплив, рассудителен, и уж если говорил что-то - это было окончательно, весомо, не с бухты-барахты (Буковский 1). He was slow-moving and meditative, and if he ever said anything, it was his final word, carefully weighed, never off the top of his head (1a).
         ♦ "Почитайте, пожалуйста, если вам не трудно читать на улице, здесь. Я стихи люблю". Он посмотрел на меня с сомнением - как это так читать неизвестно кому с бухты-барахты? - но вынул бумаги (Чуковская 2). "Please do read a little if it is not too difficult for you to read here, in the open. I love poetry." He looked at me dubiously, wondering how on earth he could read to someone he didn't know just like that, but he took out the papers (2a).

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  • 3 с бухты-барахты

    • С БУХТЫ-БАРАХТЫ <C БУХТА-БАРАХТА obs> сделать, сказать что и т.п. coll
    [PrepP; these forms only; adv]
    =====
    ⇒ (to do, say sth.) rashly, suddenly, without taking time to think, without preparation or deliberation:
    - (do < say> sth.) without thinking <out of the blue, all of a sudden>;
    - (do sth.) on the spur of the moment;
    - (say sth.) off the top of one's head;
    - [in limited contexts](do sth.) just like that.
         ♦ [Бабакина:] И эти дела не делаются так, с бухты-барахты (Чехов 4). [В.:] And these things are not done like that, just out of the blue... (4a).
         ♦ Был он нетороплив, рассудителен, и уж если говорил что-то - это было окончательно, весомо, не с бухты-барахты (Буковский 1). He was slow-moving and meditative, and if he ever said anything, it was his final word, carefully weighed, never off the top of his head (1a).
         ♦ "Почитайте, пожалуйста, если вам не трудно читать на улице, здесь. Я стихи люблю". Он посмотрел на меня с сомнением - как это так читать неизвестно кому с бухты-барахты? - но вынул бумаги (Чуковская 2). "Please do read a little if it is not too difficult for you to read here, in the open. I love poetry." He looked at me dubiously, wondering how on earth he could read to someone he didn't know just like that, but he took out the papers (2a).

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