1. to tell fibs / to tell tall stories / to lay it on thick / to draw a long bow / to pull the long bow / to tell someone a pack of lies / to pile it
to take someone by bluffing / to catch someone with chaff to tell lies / to bullshit / Cf. to spin a long yarn / to bull / to mix (to lie, to fool, to
I see! / so that’s what (how) it is! / so that’s it! вот оно что (выражает удивление, изумление)
to feel pangs of death испытывать смертельные муки
deep six / coffin / Cf. wooden (pine) overcoat «шесть ярдов под землей» (могила) / деревянный бушлат (гроб)
a bosom friend закадычный друг (очень близкий человек)
someone will lose his head / someone will never live through it / someone would not come out alive / someone will come to grief не сносить головы (не
One is (with) neither house nor home. / One has got neither harrow nor barrow. / One is out of God’s blessing into the warm sun
God damn you (him, her, etc.)! / Curse you! / Cf. May you be thrice cursed! будь ты (он, она и т.п.) проклят(а)!
to be oozing fat отрастить себе пузо (брюхо)
to bust a gut to do smth. / to bust one’s treeches / to sweat one’s guts out пуп надрывать / пупок рвать (работать до истощения сил)
to have one’s name on it быть предназначенным для кого-либо
Lit. to grow as mushrooms after rain расти как грибы после дождя
bax ürək-göbəyi düşmək
bax göbək bağlamaq
to topple up one’s heels / to turn one’s toes up / to kick off / to give up the ghost / to cut one’s cable / to drop off the hooks (to die) шутл
bax gönündən soymaq
to pay someone back in his own coin / to repay someone in kind / to return someone in kind / to give as good as one gets / Cf
to flog someone within an inch of his life / to tan the hide off someone / to give someone a good thrashing / to give someone a good flooging / to giv
bax kürkünü sudan çıxarmaq
that’s us for you! / we are the ones! / see, what we can do! / we’ve done it! знай наших (выражает чувство удовлетворения, гордости, восхваления или с
it’s ages since we met / I haven’t seen you for ages / fancy meeting you after all this time (years)! / how long since I’ve seen you! сколько лет, ско
a lot of water has flown under the bridges since then / much water has run since that time / much time has elapsed since then / Cf
bax gördüyü ağaclar kürəkliyə kəsilib
Seeing is believing. Пока не увижу - не поверю. / Собственные глаза - лучший свидетель.
I’ll give it to you! / or else! / I don’t mean maybe! / I’ll knock your block off! / someone’s feathers will fly / someone will be beaten into a cocke
seeing * при виде (увидев)
We shall see what shall see! Поживём - увидим!
I can’t bear the sight of someone or smth. / my stomach turns at the sight of someone or smth. / I am unable to stand (bear) someone or smth
bax Hələ görəcəkli günlərimiz var.
I wish I never set eyes on you (him, her, etc.)! / it makes me sick to see you (him, her, etc.)! / I hate the sight of you (him, her, etc
it really gets you down / it’s real (proper) face / it’s enough to make you cry (weep, laugh) / it beats all * хоть стой, хоть падай (о чём-либо нелеп
All is well that ends well. / The end crowns the work. Добрый конец всему делу венец. / Конец дело венчает
Lit. I’d as well see him (her, etc.) in his (her, etc.) coffin / Cf. I don’t care a damn (a hang) about someone or smth
Plague on him! Чтоб ему (ей) пусто было!
* to put one’s nose in появиться (показаться)
in all probability (probably, very likely) * надо быть (по-видимому, вероятно)
а scope (а field of vision) поле зрения
bax mənzərə
* to make a call вытащить на встречу (вызвать на встречу)
* to keep an appointment явиться (прийти) на свидание в назначенное время
to pay a visit to someone (to call on someone) наносить визит
to teach someone a lesson he (she) won’t forget / to show someone what’s what / to give someone what for / to give someone hell показать, где раки зим
in the meantime / for the present (meanwhile) * покуда суд да дело (пока происходит, делается что-либо)
to weigh for and against / to weigh pro and con / to puzzle one’s brains / to beat one’s brains / to break one’s brains / to weigh smth
not run-of-the-mill / first-class / super / neat / far-out (unique, marvellous, fantastic) штучной работы (о чём-либо уникальном, замечательном по сво
and off he (she) went (made) / and that was the last one saw of him (her) / and he (she) took to his (her) heels / up and left и был таков (сбежал, уд
to run like anything / to fly along / to be about to run away / to make a get-away / to run for all one is worth / to show one’s heels / to make a run
the sky is clouding over небо затягивается тучами
even if the whole world stop (never) даже если весь мир перевёрнётся (никогда, ни в коем случае, ни при каких обстоятельствах)