 |
noun | adjective | to phrases
| |||
| profitable connections; the old boy network (Lavrov); clientelism (Bullfinch); cronyism (Hand Grenade); thieves' cant; thieves' Latin; wasta (scherfas); clout (e.g. "we need a man with a bit of clout" – "нам нужен человек с блатом" Рина Грант); thieves’ cant; the old boy network (приобретается связями внутри сословия - например, среди выпускников одного частного колледжа, членов гольф-клуба и т.д.) | |||
| drag; blind gun (pol_evy); suction (She has a lot of suction with the boss Taras) | |||
| protection; influence | |||
| thieves' cant; thieves' Latin | |||
| crime | |||
| inside track (m_rakova) | |||
| pull; people in the right places (Victorian); old-boy network (из работы З. Трофимовой "Словарь новых слов и значений в английском языке" I. Havkin); calling in favors or chits (Его взяли на работу по блату. He got the job through the old boy network. Он устроил своего сынка в институт по блату. He got his fair-haired boy into the institute by pulling strings.; знакомство, связи connections or influence used to gain unfair advantage); connections | |||
| crime | |||
| |||
| strings (Lavrov); calling in favors or chits (Lavrov) | |||
| |||
| bog; marsh; swamp; marshland; morass; slough; mire | |||
| Russian thesaurus | |||
| |||
| болото | |||
| блат: 56 phrases in 7 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 3 |
| Australian | 1 |
| General | 28 |
| Idiomatic | 6 |
| Informal | 9 |
| Makarov | 7 |
| Slang | 2 |