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rap over the knuckles
= rap on the knuckles выговор, замечание
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You refuse a favour, and you take the high horse at the same time; you disappoint him, and you rap him over the knuckles.Вы отказываете ему в одолжении, ссылаясь на то, что поступить так было бы нечестно; вы наносите ему удар и обливаете его презрением.Stevenson, Robert Louis / The wreckerСтивенсон, Роберт Луис / Потерпевшие кораблекрушениеПотерпевшие кораблекрушениеСтивенсон, Роберт Луис© Издательство "Кыргызстан", 1986The wreckerStevenson, Robert Louis© 1891 by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne© 1905 by Charles Scribner's Sons
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