Subject | English | Russian |
gen. | glass-half-empty | пессимистический (worldview – |
amer. | glass-half-empty person | пессимист (He is more of a glass-half-empty person. Val_Ships) |
idiom. | is the glass half full or half empty | риторическая оценка ситуации оптимистическая или пессимистическая оптимистическая или пессимистическая a common expression, generally used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for optimism half full or pessimism (half empty Val_Ships) |
idiom. | is the glass half full or half empty | риторическая оценка ситуации (оптимистическая или пессимистическая) a common expression, generally used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for optimism (half full) or pessimism (half empty Val_Ships) |
idiom. | is the glass half-full or half-empty? | стакан наполовину пуст или наполовину полон (Andrey Truhachev) |
gen. | the glass half empty | Пессимистический взгляд на жизнь |