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Subject: ducks in a row slang Пожалуйста, помогите перевести.Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:Before visiting the toolmakers it is a good idea to check the runner diameters and sprue bushing size as well as parting line vents, to get your ducks in a row, so you can get everything taken care of on one trip. |
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Общий смысл - "тщательно всё подготовить", "привести в порядок". "To "have one's ducks in a row" (and variations on that phrase) means, as you say, that the person is doing a good job and has all of his or her duties taken care of in an efficient and timely manner. Phrases involving our web-footed friends, including "nice day for a duck" (meaning rainy weather) and "like water off a duck's back" (meaning having no effect), have been common in English for hundreds of years. "To have one's ducks in a row," however, seems to be a fairly recent coinage. The first appearance of the phrase noted in Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang is in 1979, in Stephen King's novel "The Stand." The related "line up one's ducks" appears only a year earlier, in 1978. But why, to echo the Marx Brothers, a duck? It's possible (though I'd much prefer it not to be true) that the phrase began as a reference to the lines of little metal ducks used as targets in carnival shooting galleries. A more benevolent (and likely, in my opinion) explanation would be that "to have one's ducks in a row" refers to the common sight of a mother duck leading a troop of her ducklings in an orderly row (often, if one judges by the frequency of news photos, across a busy intersection)." http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:FZGrDaG6jGcJ:www.word-detective.com/061202.html+what+is+"ducks+in+a+row&hl=ru&gl=ru&ct=clnk&cd=1 |
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зд. предварительно все подготовить http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=26853 Also, have one's ducks in a row. Complete one's preparations, become efficient and well organized, as in I'm trying to get my ducks in a row before I go to Europe. This synonym for get one's act together probably alludes to lining up target ducks in a shooting gallery. [Slang; 1970s] |
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