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Перевод: possum

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Тезаурус:

1. Written by 69-year-old Louise Lum, it carries recipes for dishes such as Possum Parfait, Squirrel Surprise, Crunchy Raccoon Gizzards and Frog Chips.
2. Melanie McFadyean on a Lloyds Bank/Young Guardian fashion winner Divine little number, possum!.
3. "You're an observant little possum," said the Dame approvingly, noting my interest in the valuable art treasures scattered around the room.
4. Notice, possum, how little make-up I'm wearing.
5. Pound saw him doing it, and chuckled indulgently; it was what he meant by dubbing Eliot "the Possum" (opossum, the creature that escapes danger by shamming dead).
6. "As I live and breathe, possum.
7. "There are many who would gloss over their less successful moments, possum, but I don't.
8. This seems to tie in closely with the Eliot who pronounced himself in 1928 "to refute any accusation of playing" possum classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion, The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay, "Baudelaire", where he sees Baudelaire's Satanism as "an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door.
9. "How you gwine ter keep deh Possum in his feedbox when I brings in deh Chinas and blackmen?"
10. Let's face it, possum, there are some who would put me on a pedestal.
11. I call the shots, possum, and I think that's how the public like it."
12. And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe, taking it over in the title of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse, we may well think again about Auden's comment that in English family life "it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks, hoaxes, family games and jokes".