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прост., неодобр., пренебр.1) (плакать, расплакаться) cf. turn on (start) the waterworks- С чего ты нюни распустила? - неожиданно появился Гудима. - Иди в блиндаж и приведи себя в порядок. (А. Степанов, Порт-Артур) — 'Hullo! Started the waterworks again!' growled Gudima, suddenly appearing on the scene. 'Go into the blindage and sluice your face.'
2) (ныть, плакаться, жаловаться и т. п.) snivel; slobber; whimper; start whiningСмирнов.
Да чёрт побери совсем... - разве женщина умеет любить кого-нибудь, кроме болонок?.. В любви она умеет только хныкать и распускать нюни! (А. Чехов, Медведь) — Smirnov. Why, confound it... but have you met a woman who can love anybody except a lapdog? When she's in love, can she do anything but snivel and slobber?- Боюсь идти! Хотя и бывший офицер, а боюсь идти! Боюсь... - Да будет вам нюни-то распускать, - сказала Софья Леонидовна. (К. Симонов, Софья Леонидовна) — 'I'm scared of walking! Although I'm an ex-officer, I'm scared of walking! Scared!' 'That's enough of your whimpering,' said Sofia Leonidovna.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > распускать нюни
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прост., неодобр.1) (плакать, расплакаться) whine; snivel; whimper; cf. turn on (start) the waterworksОна выскочила из избы, завыла. "Не распускай слюни, - закричал он ей, - беги задами куда хошь, и я как-нибудь затаюсь..." (А. Иванов, Вечный зов) — Wailing, she rushed out of the hut. 'Quit whining!' he shouted at her. 'Run away by the back gardens, and I'll try to hide here.'
2) (сетовать, жаловаться, хныкать) complain of smth.; lament over smth.; snivel; whine; whimperКисель я был, недоросль балованный, от первой в жизни беды распустил слюни. (О. Форш, Михайловский замок) — I was a young softy then, a jelly-fish, to lament over the first misfortune I had happened to come across.
3) (быть рассеянным, невнимательным) be absent-minded (inattentive); gape4) (приходить в умиление, разнеживаться отчего-либо) grow soft; slobber- Вы только забыли, что я не нэпман, слюней при виде каждого смазливого личика не распускаю. (А. Толстой, Гадюка) — 'You seem to forget that I am no one of these young fops who grow soft and slobber at the sight of any pretty little face.'
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