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- It is intended for a full-text search and it significantly expands the possibilities of working with lexical items from the Russian glossary of LingvoUniversal. Contains usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.
to get the bird
брит.; разг.
быть освистанным
быть уволенным
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When I was a child I had a little bird, which had once been caught by the cat in its claws; it was saved and tended, but the poor bird never got right; it moped, it pined, it ceased to sing....У меня в детстве был чиж, которого кошка раз подержала в лапах; его спасли, вылечили, но не исправился мой бедный чиж; дулся, чах, перестал петь…Тургенев, И.С. / Записки охотника т.2Turgenev, I.S. / A Sportsman's Sketches v.2A Sportsman's Sketches v.2Turgenev, I.S.© 2006 BiblioBazaarЗаписки охотника т.2Тургенев, И.С.© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1975
'The birds are getting ready to fly, and they wouldn't tell me.— Наши птицы готовятся к отлету и не хотят мне говорить об этом.Kipling, Joseph Rudyard / The Light That FailedКиплинг, Джозеф Редьярд / Свет погасСвет погасКиплинг, Джозеф Редьярд© "Издательство П. П. Сойкина", 1915The Light That FailedKipling, Joseph Rudyard© 2011 by Victorian Secrets
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