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gen. | wild goose chase |
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gen. | go on a wild-goose chase; gone with the wind; you'll never find it |
Makarov. | he has bought a brush |
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gen. | and |
правда | |
gen. | truth |
на днях | |
mean.1 | the other day |
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gen. | sea |
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go on a wild-goose chase (Anglophile); gone with the wind (when he needs something from you he's constantly around but when you need him, he's gone with the wind! Рина Грант); you'll never find it (him, her, etc.) | |||
he has bought a brush | |||
like looking for a needle in a haystack; he has bought a brush (used to mean: one cannot find him (her) who is already gone, or the thing that disappeared, vanished); you can't catch the wind in a net; you might as well look for a needle in a haystack; go and chase the wind in the field; the wind cannot be caught in a net | |||
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wild goose chase (fa158) |
ищи ветра в поле : 6 phrases in 3 subjects |
General | 2 |
Idiomatic | 2 |
Proverb | 2 |