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Перевод: akimbo

[прилагательное]
подбоченившийся;
[наречие]
подбоченясь

Тезаурус:

1. The only calm person around was Mr. Golding who stood arms akimbo, looking every inch the retired policeman and saying,
2. With wrists limp and handbags akimbo, South of France nightclub owner Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin, his star drag act and lover (Michael Serrault), provide an outrageous antidote to earnest and politically correct questions of sexual orientation.
3. These are also strongly accented as the arms straighten into 2nd position before being bent, with hands sometimes clasped behind the head, sometimes placed akimbo on the waist or sometimes with one on the waist and the other behind the large bow at the back of the head-dress.
4. I half wanted him to fall, legs and arms akimbo, flowers drifting down after him.
5. Aunt Bedelia stood at the gate with her arms akimbo, then Otley and Elinor joined her.
6. "I was sorry to see them striding along the walks at Tunbridge Wells with their arms akimbo, dressed in martial uniform," wrote the authoress Elizabeth Montagu that spring of some fellow members of her sex.
7. That's Aunt Bedelia with her arms akimbo again.
8. Unstoppable, and so tailor-made for success it's like them lying there, legs akimbo, waiting for the major companies to come in and shag the ass off them.
9. Upon the approach of a porter from the opposite direction, the dog proved he could match the dimensions of a trolley by laying flat with all available limbs akimbo; a heaving mountain of furiously barking hair the sensible porter declined to try and pass.
10. "My!" said Mrs Grimble, with beefy arms akimbo.
11. I could see Elinor and Otley, and Aunt Bedelia standing with her arms akimbo silhouetted against the lighted windows.
12. Dot turned to see Mrs Parvis, arms folded akimbo across her floral apron, rigid on her front steps.
13. John Cole, the Political Editor of the BBC, commented in February 1985: "To see the Prime Minister, arms akimbo or leaning far across the dispatch box to bellow into the microphone, is to recall a Belfast working-class politician who boasted that his Ma could beat any woman in the street.