to dog someone’s steps следовать по пятам (преследовать)
1. bax dalda demək; 2. (birinin qeybətini qırmaq) to give someone a dig / to have a dig at someone / to have a knock (a fling) at someone / scoff at s
to tread on someone’s heels / to follow hard (close, fast) on (at) someone’s heels / to be at (on, upon) someone’s heels / to dog someone’s heels / to
to make a long nose at someone on the sly, in the absense of the person defied показывать кукиш в кармане (осуждать, угрожать исподтишка, за глаза)
bax dağ kimi arxasında durmaq
= to be behind someone / to be in rear of someone (to be defended) / under the protection (wardship, guardianship) of someone / to be shielded (protec
One is in clover. / One lives in a bed of roses. / One enjoy cakes aand ale. / Be safe and comfortable as if in Abraham’s bosom
1. to turn down / to move off / to move away / down with / to treat someone lightly / to trifle (with) кидать кого-либо; 2
not to keep one’s word (promise) не сдержать своего слова (обещания)
to be shielded by someone (to rеly on someone) быть за спиной (опираться на влиятельного человека)
the history is silent on this point об этом история умалчивает (ничего не говорят, не пишут, не упоминают о ком или о чём-либо)
to lie softly on one’s back / to idle one’s time / to sit on one’s hands (to lounge about, to loaf) лежать на боку / быть лежебокой (лентяйничать)
after due consideration / to think about all the pros and cons / for and against взвесить все за и против / обдумать про и контра
bax dalını-qabağını düşünmək
bax dalını yerə vurmaq
to pin someone down to the floor / to get the other down / have got someone beat / to have got someone whipped / to lick someone / to knock someone in
to keep up heart / to keep a good heart / to keep one’s courage / to carry a stiff upper lip / to present (to show) a bold front / to make the best of
Everyone needs stand-by. Без подпорки и большая стена не стоит. / Без столбов и забор не стоит.
Every little makes a mickle. / Many a little makes a mickle. / Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
bax Dama-dama göl olar, axa-axa sel.
A drop of water can wear away a stone. / Drop by drop (constant dropping) wears (will wear) away the stone
bax damağı kök olmaq
bax damağı gəlmək
someone or smth. is to one’s liking (taste) по душе (понравиться, захотеть)
to be in high spirits настроение поднялось / быть в хорошем настроении
bax damağı pozulmaq
to be on top of the world / to tread on air / to be in the seventh heaven / to be all over oneself / to get high / to be in good / to be in high spiri
to be in a low spirits / to be in a bad mood / to be off form / to be out of sorts / to be out of spirits / a cup too low / to be in a bad humour / to
to lose heart / to sink into despair / to become despondent / one’s mood breaks down / to be upset / to be put out / to be discouraged / to give way t
bax damağı təlx olmaq
to touch someone on the raw / to cut someone to the quick / to prick someone’s vanity / to sting someone to the quick задеть за живое (обидеть)
to spoil someone’s mood / to upset someone’s mood испортить настроение
to get into the mood for smth. pleasant настроить себя на что-либо приятное
to put someone in a melancholy frame of mind (to disappoint someone) настраиваить кого-либо на грустный лад (огорчать, причинять нравственную боль, об
to leave someone in squalor / to leave someone high and dry / to leave someone standing / to leave someone out in the cold / to leave someone out in
to be without having got what one wanted / to be with nothing for one’s pains / to draw a blank / to be duped / to be a fool for one’s pains / to be l
to give Sweet Fanny Adams / to give someone the sack to hold / to make an ass of someone / to dupe someone оставить на бобах / дать шиш на блюдечке
to come out the loser / to get nothing for one’s pains (trouble) / to be a jackass for one’s pains / to be a simpleton for one’s pains / to be left i
to look down in the mouth / to lose heart / to pull a long face вешать нос на квинту / повесить нос
to enjoy oneself enormously / to have the time of one’s life / to get a great kick out of smth. / to get a hell of a bang out of it / to get behind /
bax damaq üstə olmaq
to mar someone’s pleasure / to plague the life out of someone / to spoil someone’s mood / to upset someone / to harass one’s life / to discourage some
when the mood is (was) on one стих находит / стих напал / под настроение
stubbornly refuse smth. / to jib / Cf. to dig one’s heels in / to kick / to be stubborn бровью упереться (заартачиться, заупрямиться)
1. to come into someone’s head / to come into someone’s pate (of funny or absurd ideas) / the whim seized someone / someone takes a fancy to do smth
to find one’s weak spot / to find one’s weak point / to find one’s weak side / to find one’s weak sensitive chord / to touch the right chord / to stri