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1 fiddling
['fɪdlɪŋ]Australian slang: rort -
2 пустячный
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3 занятый пустяками
fiddling имя прилагательное:Русско-английский синонимический словарь > занятый пустяками
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4 пустой
1) General subject: addle, airy, bald, bare, baseless, begging, bladdery, blank, chaffy, empty, fatuous (о попытке), feather pated, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pated, featherbrained, featherheaded, feckless, fiddling (о людях), flatulent, fluent, foppish, frivolous, frothy, futile, gossipy, holl, hollow, idle, inane, insignificant, jejune, light, light-headed, narrow souled, narrow-souled (о человеке), puerile, shallow, shallow brained, shallow-brained (о человеке), small, sounding, sporting, stark, trivial, twiddly, unfilled, unoccupied, unthinking (о взгляде), vacant, vain, vapouring (о речи), void, windy, yeasty (о словах и т. п.), bland (вкус), kitschy (о произведениях искусства, которые, однако, хорошо профессионально сделаны), trifling3) Naval: walt6) Obsolete: vaporous7) Botanical term: effete (о пыльнике)10) Mathematics: element-free, vacuous11) Railway term: devoid12) Australian slang: for the birds13) Automobile industry: deflated14) Architecture: untenanted15) Mining: dead (не содержащий полезного ископаемого), dead, holiow, valueless17) Information technology: clear, empty (о множестве), fill-in-blank, null19) Robots: dummy (о команде или переменной)20) Makarov: airy (ветреный), bare (о руде, породе), blank (напр. об опыте), empty (о человеке), exhausted (о семени), frivolous (о человеке), hollow (напр. о трубе), nude (о помещении), slight21) Taboo: piddling -
5 хлопать ушами
прост., неодобр.1) (не воспринимать то, о чём говорится) look blank; understand nothing; attempt to look wiseРебята добродушно хлопали ушами, тщетно силились упомнить всё, понять и представить пояснее: ничего не получалось. (Д. Фурманов, Чапаев) — The lads attempted to look wise as they vainly tried to remember everything, to understand and to get a clearer picture of things. Nothing came of it.
2) (бездействовать, ротозейничать, не принимать никаких мер) be inactive; do nothing; gape about; fiddle about; not notice smth. undesirable; remain idleХлопает наше ГПУ ушами, а тут уже из винтовок по ночам начинают хлопать. Нынче в Макара, а завтра - в меня или Размётнова. (М. Шолохов, Поднятая целина) — Our GPU is just fiddling about, but here someone's started fiddling with rifles at night. This time it was Makar, tomorrow it'll be me or Razmyotnov.
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6 (см.) Fiddle while Rome burns
General subject: Fiddling while Rome burnsУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > (см.) Fiddle while Rome burns
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7 бесполезный
1) General subject: begging, bootless, bum, castaway, drippy, epicene, feckless, fiddling, futile, futility, good for nothing, good-for-nothing, hopeless, humpty dumpty, impracticable, impractical, inutile, naught, needless, no use, not( hardly) worth (one's) salt, nugatory, of no avail, of no utility, of use, otiose, profitless, purposeless, sell by auction, thriftless, unavailing, unbeneficial, unhelpful, unprevailing, useless, vain, valueless, virtueless (о лекарстве), void, without avail, without effect, worthless, arid, fruitless, idle, ineffective, unproductive, unuseful2) Geology: dead4) American: footless5) Obsolete: fatuous6) Engineering: unusable8) Railway term: inefficient9) Economy: of no effect10) Australian slang: cactus, lame duck, no good to gundy, not worth a crumpet, queer, ratshit, rip, up to mud, up to shit, as useful as a one legged bloke in an arse kicking contest11) Diplomatic term: it's of no avail13) Jargon: diddly, humpty-dumpty, not worth beans, no go15) Makarov: hardly worth (one's) salt, helpless, irrelative, irrelevant, not worth( one's) salt, not worth a jigger, not worth shucks, unpractical16) Taboo: crappy, diddly-shit, duff, (о предметах) half-assed, piddling, pissy-ass17) Phraseological unit: Not worth a plugged nickle -
8 возиться
1) General subject: dawdle, fidget, finick, fuck, linger (с - over, upon), mess about, mess around, muck about (with; с кем-л.), muck around (с кем-л.), niggle (с чем-л.), puddle (в лужах, тж. puddle about, puddle in), romp (о детях), snail (с чем-л.), tinker, tinker away at (с чем-л.), tinker away with (с чем-л.), fuck around (с чем-л.), fumble2) Colloquial: horse around, fiddle about (e.g. We passed away the whole afternoon fiddling about with the computer but couldn't get it to work.)3) Bookish: belabour (с чем-л.)4) British English: mess about ( with) (с машиной и т.п.), pfaff around5) Jargon: horse about -
9 возня
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10 занятый пустяками
General subject: fiddling -
11 морока
General subject: hassle (I've stopped going to Vancouver, it's such a hassle - the prices are outrageous, the parking is ridiculous - now you have to plug the meter till 10 p.m., and the street crime is completely out of contro), no end of trouble, fiddling, palaver -
12 ничтожный
1) General subject: Lilliputian, contemptible, crummy, demi semi, derisive, feeble, fiddling, futile, gewgaw, in a million, inconsiderable, insignificant, narrow souled, narrow-souled, naught, negligeable, negligible, paltry, penny ante, penny-ante, pettifogging, petty, picayunish, piddling, pigmy, piss ant, pistareen, pitiable, pitiful, poor, puisne, puny, pygmy, queachy (о человеке), scrub, scrubby, shabby, shagback, shrimpish, silly, sleazo, sleazy, sleezy, small, small beer, small fry, small time, small-beer, small-fry, squirt, tiny, twopenny halfpenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vain, nominal, itsy bitsy, low3) American: cockamamie, cockamamy, outside, picayune4) Bookish: exiguous5) Rare: sneaksby6) Religion: vile7) Law: aniens, anient, null, null and void (об аннулированном договоре и т.п.), void9) Child speech: tiny winy10) Diplomatic term: tinhorn11) Scornful: demi-semi, lamentable12) Jargon: crum, crumb, hill (row) of beans, one-horse, snide, two-bit, crumby, half-pint, jeasely, jeasly, shity13) Invective: mother fucking, mothering14) leg.N.P. null and void (law of contracts), void (as distinguished from "voidable"; law of contracts)16) Derogatory: small-time17) Taboo: crappy -
13 пустячный
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14 я проболтался целое утро
General subject: I spent the whole morning fiddling aboutУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > я проболтался целое утро
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15 Б-68
ИГРАТЬ В БИРЮЛЬКИ coll, disapprov VP subj: human often neg or infin with хватит, перестань(те) etc) to occupy o.s. with trifles (with the implication that one should be doing sth. serious, productive instead)X в бирюльки играет \Б-68 X fritters (fiddles) away the timeX fiddles (fools, putters) aroundNeg X не в бирюльки играет (with an emphasis on the seriousness of the matter) X is not playing games (with person Y).ИГРА В БИРЮЛЬКИ NP - fiddling (fooling, puttering) around trifles trifling matters."А это ты нас не учи, что делать. - Он подступал к арестованному, красноречиво поигрывая деревянной кобурой у пояса. - Мы из тебя, ваше благородие, быстро гонор вышибем. Мы сюда не в бирюльки играть заявились» (Максимов 3). "Don't you tell us what to do."...He went up to the prisoner, eloquently fingering the wooden holster at his waist. "We'll soon cut you down to size. We haven't come here to fool around" (3a).«Кто подделывал икону?» - спросил Антон. «Не знаю!» -торопливо выпалил Вася... (Антон) передал фотоснимок (Васе) Сипенятину: «Узнаёте художника?» Тот, оценивающе прищурясь, натянуто усмехнулся: «Как волков флажками обложили». - «Вы что, думали, в бирюльки с вами играть будут?» (Чернёнок 2). "Who forged the icon?" Anton asked. "I don't know," Vasya burst out... (Anton) handed the picture to (Vasya) Sipeniatin. "Do you recognize the artist?" Vasya squinted as he appraised the picture and laughed nervously. "You've got him pegged." "Did you think we were going to play games with you?" (2a).From the name of an old game in which a large number of very small objects («бирюльки») were scattered on a table and the players tried to pull out one item at a time with a small hook without disturbing the other objects. Cf. jackstraws, pick-up-sticks. -
16 Fiddle while Rome burns
General subject: (см.) Fiddling while Rome burnsУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Fiddle while Rome burns
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17 игра в бирюльки
• ИГРАТЬ В БИРЮЛЬКИ coll, disapprov[VP; subj: human; often neg or infin with хватит, перестань(те) etc]=====⇒ to occupy o.s. with trifles (with the implication that one should be doing sth. serious, productive instead):- X fiddles (fools, putters) around;|| Neg X не в бирюльки играет≈ [with an emphasis on the seriousness of the matter] X is not playing games (with person Y).○ ИГРА В БИРЮЛЬКИ [NP] ≈ fiddling <fooling, puttering> around; trifles; trifling matters.♦ "А это ты нас не учи, что делать. - Он подступал к арестованному, красноречиво поигрывая деревянной кобурой у пояса. - Мы из тебя, ваше благородие, быстро гонор вышибем. Мы сюда не в бирюльки играть заявились" (Максимов 3). "Don't you tell us what to do."...He went up to the prisoner, eloquently fingering the wooden holster at his waist. "We'll soon cut you down to size. We haven't come here to fool around" (3a).♦ "Кто подделывал икону?" - спросил Антон. "Не знаю!" - торопливо выпалил Вася... [Антон] передал фотоснимок [Васе] Сипенятину: "Узнаёте художника?" Тот, оценивающе прищурясь, натянуто усмехнулся: "Как волков флажками обложили". - "Вы что, думали, в бирюльки с вами играть будут?" (Чернёнок 2). "Who forged the icon?" Anton asked. "I don't know," Vasya burst out... [Anton] handed the picture to [Vasya] Sipeniatin. "Do you recognize the artist?" Vasya squinted as he appraised the picture and laughed nervously. "You've got him pegged." "Did you think we were going to play games with you?" (2a).—————← From the name of an old game in which a large number of very small objects (" бирюльки") were scattered on a table and the players tried to pull out one item at a time with a small hook without disturbing the other objects. Cf. jackstraws, pick-up-sticks.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > игра в бирюльки
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18 играть в бирюльки
• ИГРАТЬ В БИРЮЛЬКИ coll, disapprov[VP; subj: human; often neg or infin with хватит, перестань(те) etc]=====⇒ to occupy o.s. with trifles (with the implication that one should be doing sth. serious, productive instead):- X fiddles (fools, putters) around;|| Neg X не в бирюльки играет≈ [with an emphasis on the seriousness of the matter] X is not playing games (with person Y).○ ИГРА В БИРЮЛЬКИ [NP] ≈ fiddling <fooling, puttering> around; trifles; trifling matters.♦ "А это ты нас не учи, что делать. - Он подступал к арестованному, красноречиво поигрывая деревянной кобурой у пояса. - Мы из тебя, ваше благородие, быстро гонор вышибем. Мы сюда не в бирюльки играть заявились" (Максимов 3). "Don't you tell us what to do."...He went up to the prisoner, eloquently fingering the wooden holster at his waist. "We'll soon cut you down to size. We haven't come here to fool around" (3a).♦ "Кто подделывал икону?" - спросил Антон. "Не знаю!" - торопливо выпалил Вася... [Антон] передал фотоснимок [Васе] Сипенятину: "Узнаёте художника?" Тот, оценивающе прищурясь, натянуто усмехнулся: "Как волков флажками обложили". - "Вы что, думали, в бирюльки с вами играть будут?" (Чернёнок 2). "Who forged the icon?" Anton asked. "I don't know," Vasya burst out... [Anton] handed the picture to [Vasya] Sipeniatin. "Do you recognize the artist?" Vasya squinted as he appraised the picture and laughed nervously. "You've got him pegged." "Did you think we were going to play games with you?" (2a).—————← From the name of an old game in which a large number of very small objects (" бирюльки") were scattered on a table and the players tried to pull out one item at a time with a small hook without disturbing the other objects. Cf. jackstraws, pick-up-sticks.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > играть в бирюльки
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19 подтасовка
............................................................1. fiddlingجزیی، ناچیز............................................................2. unfair/trick shuffling............................................................3. garbling{garbl [ garble:(vt.) ضایعات، فضولات، تحریف، تحریف کردن، الک کردن]}{!! garbler: تحریف کننده}............................................................4. juggling{juggl [ juggle:(vt. & vi. & n.) شعبده، تردستی، حقه بازی، شیادی، چشم بندی]}{ jugglery: ــ(n.) تردستی، شعبده بازی} -
20 ничтожный
1) trifling (очень маленький); insignificant (незначительный)
2) worthless, paltry (о человеке)* * ** * *trifling; insignificant; tiny; vain* * *exiguousfaintfeeblefiddlingimperceptibleinconsiderableinsignificantlamentableminorminutenegligiblenominalpaltrypettifoggingpettypitifulpottypunyremotescrubbyshabbysmalltenuous
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fiddling — ► ADJECTIVE informal ▪ annoyingly trivial … English terms dictionary
fiddling — [fid liŋ] adj. trifling; useless; petty … English World dictionary
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Fiddling — Fiddle Fid dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fiddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fiddling}.] 1. To play on a fiddle. [1913 Webster] Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To keep the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fiddling — 1. noun action of the verb to fiddle Fiddling the accounts is not legal. 2. adjective Of petty or trivial importance; footling It was a fiddling little faul … Wiktionary
fiddling — adjective Date: 1652 trifling, petty < a fiddling excuse > … New Collegiate Dictionary
fiddling — /fid ling/, adj. trifling; trivial: a fiddling sum of money. [1425 75; late ME; see FIDDLE, ING2] * * * … Universalium
fiddling — fid|dling [ˈfıdlıŋ] adj [only before noun] unimportant, and annoying ▪ fiddling little jobs around the house … Dictionary of contemporary English
fiddling — adjective (only before noun) unimportant, and annoying: all these fiddling little jobs around the house … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
fiddling — fid•dling [[t]ˈfɪd lɪŋ[/t]] adj. trifling; trivial: a fiddling sum[/ex] • Etymology: 1645–55 … From formal English to slang
fiddling while Rome burns — To say that someone is fiddling while Rome burns means that they are doing unimportant things while there are serious problems to be dealt with. His visit to the trade fair was fiddling while Rome burns according to the strikers … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions