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 Gulnarochka

link 24.01.2010 13:47 
Subject: Помогите пож-та перевести фразеологизм
Здравствуйте! Помогите пож-та перевести фразеологизм "meddling duchess"

 Gulnarochka

link 24.01.2010 13:49 
и выражение to do a Thatcher . Заранее спасибо.

 segu

link 24.01.2010 14:17 

 2eastman

link 24.01.2010 14:28 
Meddling duchess: "Ageing, pompous woman who fusses about and achieves nothing."
http://www.archive.org/stream/passingenglishof00wareuoft/passingenglishof00wareuoft_djvu.txt

 2eastman

link 24.01.2010 14:33 
...‘do a Thatcher’, meaning to behave in some way that is associated with Thatcher.
http://ijb.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/1/73.pdf

e.g.: "Can Sarkozy really " do a Thatcher" and triple unemployment in under three years?"

 Gulnarochka

link 24.01.2010 17:04 
Спасибо, выручили

 

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