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1 бездельничать
1) General subject: daddle, dally, dawdle, drone, fiddle, fribble, frowst, hang about, have a good slack, have a loaf, have a mike, idle, keep hands in pockets, loaf, loaves, loiter, loiter away one's time, loiter away time, lounge (lounge away one's life (time) - праздно проводить жизнь (время)), lounge about (lounge away one's life; time), maroon, mess about, mike, moulder, potter, put one's feet up, sit, snooze, snooze time away, twiddle, twiddle thumbs, while away, idle time, laze away, linger, loiter away time, squander time, twirl thumbs, moodle (Napoleon often moodled about for a week at a time doing nothing but play with his children or read trash or waste his time helplessly), fiddle-faddle, laze away the time, goof around, veg out2) Colloquial: bum, haze about, knock around, lallygag, laze, laze about, laze around, lollygag, mess around, play grab ass, twiddle ( one's) thumbs, veg3) Australian slang: bugger all, fart around, fart-arse about, play silly buggers, swing the lead4) Scottish language: jauk5) Jargon: bat around, dilly-dally, do a mike, gold brick, goof off, hack around, jack around, rat, screw off screw-off, stooge around, twiddle one's thumbs, rat around, beef, bum around, dead-beat, deadbeat, featherbed, float, jelly, rat fuck6) American English: play the hooky7) Invective: mack around, screw around8) Makarov: loll about doing nothing, not to do a day's-work, not to do a stitch of work, sit back, dawdle away, do mike, fiddle about, fluff off9) Taboo: ass about, bum about, fart about, fart off, fartass about, fat-ass around, fuck off, fuck the dog, fuck up, futy, futz about, go on the bum (см. bum), hell around, jerk, (перевёртыш) kaycuff foe, muck around, not give somebody the sweat of (one's) balls, piddle, piddle about, piss about, piss-ant about, piss-ass about, prick about, putz about, screw about, screw off, shit-ass about, silly-ass about, sit scratching (one's) ballocks, sod about, tit about -
2 бить баклуши
1) General subject: idle, twiddle, twiddle one's thumbs, twiddle thumbs, stand by idly, waste time2) Colloquial: play grab ass, dawdle, screw around3) Politics: twiddle (one's) thumbs4) Jargon: screw down -
3 лодырничать
1) General subject: bum, daddle, goof, idle, keep hands in pockets, mess, mess about, potter, potter about, slacken, snooze, laze away, twiddle thumbs2) Colloquial: knock around, lallygag, laze, lollygag, mess around, slack4) Economy: shirk (to have an incentive not to shirk)5) Australian slang: muck around, piss about6) Jargon: dilly dally, hack around, screw around7) Simple: mike9) Taboo: screw off10) Phraseological unit: extract the urine (To mess around, cajole.) -
4 бить баклуши
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6 плевать в потолок
Американизмы. Русско-английский словарь. > плевать в потолок
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7 сидеть без дела
1) General subject: sit idly, have nothing to do2) Colloquial: twiddle (one's) thumbs3) Jargon: twiddle one's thumbs -
8 голубей гонять
разг., неодобр.idle (loiter, trifle) away one's time; cf. twiddle one's thumbs (fingers); kick one's heels- И мы не голубей гоняли, и мы были в армии, имеем награды. (Ю. Трифонов, Студенты) — 'We didn't twiddle our thumbs either; we too were in the army, we too were decorated.'
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9 считать ворон
разг., неодобр.1) (ротозейничать, глазеть по сторонам) gape- Дрыхнешь там! Ворон ловишь! - вышел из себя Санька и, подпрыгнув, ухватил Девяткина за ногу и стащил его на землю. (А. Мусатов, Стожары) — 'You! Gaping and doping there!' With a furious shout, Sanka jumped up, caught hold of Devyatkin's foot and hauled him off the cart.
2) (проводить время в праздности, бездельничать) idle; twiddle one's thumbs; sit picking one's noseПочему она одна, Лизавета Прокофьевна, осуждена обо всех заботиться, всё замечать и предугадывать, а все прочие - одних ворон считать? (Ф. Достоевский, Идиот) — Why was she alone, Lizaveta Prokofyevna, doomed to worry about everything, to notice and foresee everything, while the others did nothing but twiddle their thumbs?
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10 бездельничать
laze глагол:laze (бездельничать, лентяйничать)fiddle about (бездельничать, шататься без дела)idle about (бездельничать, лениться)lollygag (бездельничать, лодырничать)frowst (бездельничать, сидеть в духоте)dawdle away (бездельничать, зря тратить время)lallygag (бездельничать, лодырничать)fiddle-faddle (бездельничать, болтать вздор)loiter away one's time (бездельничать, терять время)словосочетание: -
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БИТЬ БАКЛУШИ coll, disapprov VP suby. human) to be idle, do nothingX бил баклуши - X twiddled his thumbsX frittered away the (his) time X sat around doing nothing X goofed off (in limited contexts) X killed time.(Аннушка:) Ты меня, братец, отпусти домой! На что я тебе! (Бессудный:) А дома что делать? Баклуши бить (Островский 8). (A.:) Brother, let me go home! What use am I to you? (B.:) What will you do at home? Twiddle your thumbs? (8a).Хлопнула дверь, дежурный по станции, проводя поезд, ушёл в свою каморку бить баклуши (Ерофеев 3). A door slammed: after seeing the train off, the stationmaster had gone into his little room to kill time (3a)....Баклуши», small chunks of wood chopped from large blocks, were once commonly used to make wooden objects. Chopping off chunks was considered an easy job. -
12 бить баклуши
• БИТЬ БАКЛУШИ coll, disapprov[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to be idle, do nothing:- X frittered away the < his> time;- X goofed off;- [in limited contexts] X killed time.♦ [Аннушка:] Ты меня, братец, отпусти домой! На что я тебе! [Бессудный:] А дома что делать? Баклуши бить (Островский 8). [A.:] Brother, let me go home! What use am I to you? [B.:] What will you do at home? Twiddle your thumbs? (8a).♦ Хлопнула дверь, дежурный по станции, проводя поезд, ушёл в свою каморку бить баклуши (Ерофеев 3). A door slammed: after seeing the train off, the stationmaster had gone into his little room to kill time (3a).—————← " Баклуши", small chunks of wood chopped from large blocks, were once commonly used to make wooden objects. Chopping off chunks was considered an easy job.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > бить баклуши
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13 бить баклуши
разг., неодобр.be busy doing nothing; fritter (idle, loiter) away one's time; waste one's time; loaf around; dawdle; cf. twiddle (twirl) one's thumbs (fingers); sit twiddling one's thumbs (fingers); fold one's arms (hands); sit with idle hands; eat lotus; sit like a bump on a log Amer.; sit picking one's noseПапа сказал, что будет нам в деревне баклуши бить, что мы перестали быть маленькими и что пора нам серьёзно учиться. (Л. Толстой, Детство) — Papa said we'd had enough of idling away our time in the country, that we were no longer infants and that it was high time we had begun to study in earnest.
Ведь он не баклуши бил, он трое суток оперировал, почти трое суток. Он оперировал, и его кололи кофеином, чтобы он не заснул стоя... (Ю. Герман, Дорогой мой человек) — After all, he hadn't been loafing around the last three days. He had been operating without a stop, with the nurses giving him caffeine injections all the time so he wouldn't fall asleep oh his feet...
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14 пень колотить день проводить
пень колотить <да> день проводитьразг., неодобр.idle away one's time; while away the time; cf. twiddle one's thumbs- Так вот всю зиму и проволынил, пень колотил да день проводил, вот оно в чём дело-то. (В. Балябин, Забайкальцы) — 'So I whiled away the time twiddling my thumbs the whole winter. That's the way it was.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > пень колотить день проводить
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15 играть пальцами
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16 (сидеть , ждать , пр.) сложа руки (to be)
Set phrase: idle, twiddle one's thumbsУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > (сидеть , ждать , пр.) сложа руки (to be)
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17 бездельничать, переплетая пальцы в нервном ожидании
Jargon: twiddle (one's) thumbsУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > бездельничать, переплетая пальцы в нервном ожидании
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18 играть пальцами
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20 баклуши
мн.бить баклуши разг. — twiddle one's thumbs; fritter away, или waste, one's time
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См. также в других словарях:
twiddle thumbs — twiddle (your) thumbs to do nothing. Dan spent a whole day twiddling his thumbs, waiting for a package to be delivered … New idioms dictionary
twiddle one's thumbs — {v. phr.} To do nothing; be idle. * /I d rather work than stand around here twiddling my thumbs./ … Dictionary of American idioms
twiddle one's thumbs — {v. phr.} To do nothing; be idle. * /I d rather work than stand around here twiddling my thumbs./ … Dictionary of American idioms
twiddle — [twid′ l] vt. twiddled, twiddling [prob. < TW(IST) or TW(IRL) + (D)IDDLE] to twirl or play with lightly or idly vi. 1. to toy or trifle with some object 2. to be busy about trifles 3 … English World dictionary
twiddle — ► VERB ▪ play or fiddle with (something) in a purposeless or nervous way. ► NOUN 1) an act of twiddling. 2) a rapid or intricate series of musical notes. ● twiddle one s thumbs Cf. ↑twiddle one s thumbs … English terms dictionary
twiddle — (v.) 1540s, to trifle, of unknown origin; of the fingers, first recorded 1670s. Figurative phrase twiddle one s thumbs have nothing to do is recorded from 1846; to twirl one s thumbs in the same sense is recorded from 1816. Related: Twiddled;… … Etymology dictionary
twiddle one's thumbs — ► twiddle one s thumbs be idle; have nothing to do. Main Entry: ↑twiddle … English terms dictionary
twiddle your thumbs — twiddle (your) thumbs to do nothing. Dan spent a whole day twiddling his thumbs, waiting for a package to be delivered … New idioms dictionary
Twiddle — Twid dle, v. t. [Probably of imitative origin. Cf. {Tweedle}.] To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one s thumbs; to twiddle a watch key. [Written also twidle.] Thackeray. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
twiddle one's thumbs — BE IDLE, kick one s heels, kill time, waste time; informal hang around/round; Brit. informal hang about. → twiddle * * * phrasal : to spend time vacantly : do nothing kept the manager busy and left me twiddling my thumbs * * * twiddle one s… … Useful english dictionary
twiddle — twid|dle [ twıdl ] verb 1. ) transitive to turn a switch on a piece of equipment or a machine: He twiddled the radio dial until he found a news program. 2. ) intransitive or transitive to twist or turn something in a bored or nervous way: She… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
