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Перевод: gaff

[существительное]
багор ; острога ; гафель ; ерунда ; вздор ; дешевый театр;
[глагол]
багрить

Тезаурус:

1. It was like a student flat, a wretched and dirty gaff with lino on the floor and large white dried flowers waving from the marble fireplace.
2. A resolution of the European Parliament early in 1989 called upon the Faroese to ban the use of the gaff from boats and in water more than a metre deep.
3. Perhaps the most paranoid variation on this theme comes from William Milton Cooper, who suggests in his pamphlet The Secret Government that J.F. Kennedy was in fact killed because he was about to blow the gaff on the alien conspiracy.
4. A rope attached to this gaff enables a number of men to drag the whale into shallow water and hold the thrashing animal while others kill it with knives.
5. But then it was a politician who coined the phrase, "lies, damned lies and statistics", which rather blew the gaff in the first place.
6. A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it.
7. Was this a simple gaff or a plot to lessen fears that radioactivity may have been swept by the cyclone to the Gambiers?
8. And if you haven't, I'll go to the girls myself; you won't get the opportunity of blowing the gaff, I'll tell them.
9. "Now dear, we don't have a gaff or net, so I will show you how to tail a salmon," he said, unctuously.
10. This week NRPB staff said privately that they were angry that nobody had told them of their gaff.
11. If you want to, that's down to you but I'm blowing the gaff.
12. One-and-a-half hours later, and after near disaster with the gaff, the head of which fell off, John Wilson managed to beach the great fish; a salmon of 40lb in weight, the second-heaviest fish ever taken from the river.
13. Apparently the offer from the department to submit itself to cross-examination came about because of a gaff in communications between the department and counsel instructed on its behalf by the Treasury Solicitor.