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flourishes; scrolls; dodges; frill; twists and turns (Anglophile); quirk; pretentious floridity and extravagance (в стиле, в музыке); subterfuges; shtick (DC); shenanigans (suburbian) | |||
tricks (=выходки : Это еще что за выкрутасы? Пишите объяснительную.); stunt; theatrics; antics; dickishness | |||
showiness (Taras) | |||
intricate turns and twists; flourishes in handwriting; evasion; trick; ruse; tergiversation; peculiarities; idiosyncrasies | |||
dodge; flourishes (in handwriting); prevarication; subterfuge; twists (A.Rezvov); fancy pants (Now if he meant to ditch his gun, why not do it where he did his killing? Why take the risk of going into another apartment to do it? Why the fancy pants? – К чему эти выкрутасы? (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver); twists and turns (of the body) | |||
monkey business (igisheva) | |||
cracks (igisheva) |
выкрутасы: 17 phrases in 3 subjects |
Disapproving | 2 |
General | 9 |
Informal | 6 |