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Перевод: humbug

[существительное]
обман ; притворство; вздор ; чепуха ; глупость ; обманщик ; хвастун ; мятная конфета;
[глагол]
надувать; обманывать

Тезаурус:

1. All humbug is punished sooner or later; but Nemesis is notoriously slow, and it was a quarter of a century before she struck and the United Kingdom found itself, to the malicious glee of her neighbours, the first signatory state to the Convention to be found guilty of a breach of its terms, in Ulster in 1971.
2. But it is humbug for the Harlequins to make a great song and dance about it - and for Jamie Salmon to imply that the New Zealanders never kick anyone.
3. The consequences of that monumental humbug belong in this country to the realm of reality.
4. As he waxed into an eloquent period, he would realize the absurdity of his situation or the humbug of his pleading and be overcome with internal laughter, a laughter so vast that on occasion it left him too weak to go on with the speech.
5. You must always think of him in those terms, to get the flavour of Calvinistic humbug that ruled his life, and therefore everyone around him."
6. I am always in my very best spirits, for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug; and, what is more, I have become fatter.
7. In either case, let us call off our participation in the dangerous humbug of international conventions of so-called "human rights".
8. humbug and foolishness; that it was all prearranged; that he was given music which he already knew; that it was ridiculous to think that he could compose, and so forth.
9. Anybody who supposes that the events of 1983 in the Caribbean have left the humbug of the Commonwealth unscathed is as self-deceived as those who imagine that the humbug of the United Nations has been unscathed by the events of 1982 in the South Atlantic.
10. "Don't we all rather humbug about the coarseness?
11. Confined to her room, no doubt, for refusing to marry the old humbug picked out for her.
12. When Mr. Major professes on the one hand to stand for something he calls a "classless society" and, on the other, whinges on behalf of the wealthy, purportedly faced with the unbearable prospect under Labour of parting with their other BMW, we can detect the unmistakable stench of humbug.
13. Washington's policy was "pure humbug" on this issue, he said.