My main pages are at the Russian and English Wikis: w:ru:Участник:CopperKettle and w:en:User:CopperKettle. At Wikisource: s:User:CopperKettle
My name is Артём. Born on the 8th of May, 1978.
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Nips and tucks [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Definite and indefinite [edit]
Started: [edit]
- Flieringa ring
- B-drinker
- bitzer - a mongrel dog (Australian)
- home and hosed - australian phrase, from "A Cry in the Dark" (1988 movie); see "home and dry"
- buff out - from "Planes, trains and automobiles", a comedy
- stick by - from "The Life of Emile Zola", 1938 movie
- pip to the post - from "Evil", a 2003 movie
- that's wassup - from "Inside Man" by Spike Lee
- carrying-on, from "The Last Picture Show" (1971)
- branch water, from "Gettysburg", 1993
- capital goods
- jive-ass - from "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010)
- arseholed - "Withnail and I", 1987
- down bubble - "Run Silent Run Deep" 1958 - /29.07.2012
- TBT = Target Bearing Transmitter, ditto, 1958
- masked facies - "The Savages" 2007
- low on the totem pole - "Martian Child" 2007
- dinged-up - "The Right Stuff" 1983
- to ding up - do., 1983
- pudknocker - do.
- articular facet - reading the "sternum" at wiki
- cross dowel - как по-русски?
- hold cheap - "From the Dark Tower" by Countee Cullen
- milling cutter, 5aug12
- empire waist - "Miller's Crossing" (1990): schmatte -> quotation search
- lay odds
- kerfing - prompted by a chat with DCDuring
- jointer plane - фуганок
- locus poenitentiae - "The Paper Chase" (1973) - 12 08 2012
- knight of the post - From Hudibras (1663)
- moving violation
- Seville orange - "Much Ado About Nothing" (1599) - 21 09 2012
- rabato - do., 24 09 2012
- root and branch - 27 09 2012
- wit-cracker - Much Ado - 28 09 2012
- tirocinium - through looking for quotations for "giddy" - 28 09 2012
- turn the scale - W S Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence" - 06 10 2012
- cocopan - was listening to "Awaye!" at ABC Radio, heard "opencast mining" -> Wikipedia: "Big Hole" article - a caption for an image. 06 10 2012
- PRMS
- cut a figure - WSMaugh. - 11 10 2012
- a Roland for an Oliver - do., - 13 10 2012
- environmental audit - 13 10 2012
- sans gêne - 14 10 2012
- take in bad part - 14 10 2012
- antiscalant - 17 10 2012
- stump speech - The Economist - 17 10 2012
- Mother Hubbard - MS ch 49 - 18 10 2012
- fall to one's lot - MS ch 50 - 18 10 2012
- natural wastage - 20 10 2012
- there is reason in the roasting of eggs - 21 10 2012
- proving ground - 25 10 2012
- caubeen - 28 10 2012
- heave in sight - 31 10 2012
- bargaining chip - 02 11 2012 - the Economist
- off-gassing - 02 11 2012 - reading Silicate mineral paint
- shot through with - 02 11 2012
- residual power - 11 11 2012
- call time (on smth) - 27 11 2012, from a malapropism in Telemachus, Friend
- wig block - 29 11 2012, Moby Dick
- pitch upon - 29 11 2012, Moby Dick
- to the end of the chapter - 02 12 2012, do.
- unrecking - 05 12 2012, MD ch 36
- hand over hand - 05 12 2012, MD ch 40
- money mule - 10 12 2012, news
- move the needle - 22 12 2012, news
- make fast - 30 12 2012, J Conrad
- stemhead - 30 12 2012, do.
- twopenny-halfpenny - 30 12 2012, do.
- bear in upon - 30 12 2012, do.
- blow upon - 07 01 2013, "Oliver!" (1968)
- up a gum tree - 08 01 2013, do.
- maintopman - 08 01 2013, Billy Budd (1962)
- rodbuster - 12 01 2013, reading w:Rebar
- handsome is as handsome does - listening to "David Copperfield"
- rabbit on - 01 02 2013, "The Castle" (1997)
- slug it out - 06 02 2013, BBC Radio, report on Syrian war
- take a flyer - 06 02 2013, O. Henry, Man About Town
- straw in the wind - 11 02 2013, BBC Radio, discussion of Pope's resignation
- come to time - 15 02 2013, O Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
- cry up - 20 02 2013, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer
- make shift - 21 02 2013, do.
- rallying point - 05 03 2013, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
- slur over - 29 03 2013, Sons and Lovers
- rip along - 31 03 2013, do.
- lerky - 02 04 2013, do.
- on the club - 06 04 2013, do.; DCDuring
- gilliver - 06 04 2013, do.
- by a long chalk - 06 04 2013, do.; ch 6
- milk churn - 06 04 2013, do.; ch. 7
- in high feather - 07 04 2013, do.
- roisterously - 08 04 2013, do.
- scrattle \ scrattling - 09 04 2013, do.
- palletizer - 24 04 2013, news on a BASF factory
- netback - 27 04 2013, oilpatch learning curve
- univocity - 17 05 2013, combing the web for clinical trials jargon
- superplasticizer - 20 05 2013, translating a news abt. a synthanol plant
To improve [edit]
- run-in also a "run-in period" in clinical trials and приработка (детали) in mech. eng.
- spline - adequate Russian translation for its many senses; images
- chockstone +"nut" in a mountain climbing
- hell - a place where a tailor stashed filched material or shreds and bits
- tin ear - also used in "to display a tin ear" (idiomatically)
- collection +redistribution of weight to the back of the horse (see wikipedia)
- +whip: is it a hose or an interface for filling with gas (medical oxygen, scuba diving etc.). Google "scuba fill whips"
- ? turnkey: word combinations
- on a turnkey basis; turnkey solution; turnkey contract, turnkey project, turnkey plant; turnkey provider; turnkey dental plans; turnkey order(s); turnkey platform;
- book prelim - usage examples
- +put out: to put out to an open tender
- +parison: also plastics
- +transpose: directive into law (EU)
- ?strike a balance - russian dictionaries differentiate "strike a balance" in a bookkeeping sense and "strike a balance between" in an equal-compromise sense.
- ?all the while - is it used as "however" or not?
- ?confab - journalese for "conference" (esp. in titles)
- ?to factor in - to include some calculations in the figure
- +chockers - as an interjection "this lake is full of fish. chokers!" see chock-a-block
To start [edit]
Phraseology [edit]
Uncertain meaning [edit]
- "It can be disconcerting to dope out a positive pedigree play only to find your horse open at even money."
- " No; he never travels with the hydrogen derivatives. " O Henry
- "I wouldn't have this double handicap make a false start to-night for a million," he said. - O Henry
- "You came up the trail from the Double-Elm Fork," he said promisingly. "As you crossed it you must have seen an old deserted jacal to your left under a comma mott." - O H
- I got in the habit of looking for mine, and I managed to soak in a little straight or some spilled Martini or Manhattan whenever I could. - OH
- "Come to think of it," remarked California Ed, "it's funny some ain't drifted in. Town ain't settled enough yet for to bring in the rubber- ring brigade, I reckon." - do.
- "No, Jud," I said, sincerely, "I meant it. It seems to me I'd swap my pony and saddle for a stack of buttered brown pancakes with some first crop, open kettle, New Orleans sweetening. - O.H.
- "The car felt pretty much in balance and similar to what I had on Friday and I was able to push in the lap but it is always tricky to push in these ... " -- harking to the antipodean radio.
- "The tall white lilies were reeling in the moonlight, and the air was charged with their perfume, as with a presence." - reel
- "So you keep wagging on, then?" \ "Ay," answered Mrs. Morel deprecatingly. "There's nothing else for it." -- wag
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Find quotes, learn [edit]
Grammar [edit]
- has came up with a proposal \ has come up with a proposal
Desi-Pom relics [edit]
- fillip - "give a fillip" widely used in Hindi sources but seems to have faded away from the British ones
Technology-affected words [edit]
Hard words [edit]
Collocation [edit]
- In demand with the consumer \\ not "by"
