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Перевод: scarecrow

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Тезаурус:

1. The broken sails of the old windmill stood out in silhouette against the sky like a scarecrow's arms, and as she looked at them a sudden wonderful idea flashed into Cheryl's mind.
2. Sophie got the idea of using it in France when she made a scarecrow for a friend.
3. She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom - Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you, they would say.
4. "You don't ride any horse of mine looking like a scarecrow.
5. She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage.
6. Such childish poeticizing is reinforced, in directing us to the level of the infant, by the " penny for the Old Guy " epigraph, by the dressing up as a scarecrow, and by the nursery rhyme, "Twinkle twinkle little star", which inescapably underlies the line "Under the twinkle of a fading star".
7. They carted him like a scarecrow, his heels scoring the gravel, but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart, he would never squeal without a hard prod; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper.
8. After two days they found him, an exhausted scarecrow of a figure hardly able to stand.
9. You look like a scarecrow."
10. Associations of the scarecrow with powerlessness and religious degeneration resurface in "The Hollow Men", where the scarecrow is again camouflage, but this time hopelessly unarmed:
11. His being "the Matthew Arnold of his time" again connects, through the scarecrow image, with the Hollow Men who, like so many of Eliot's literary adversaries, are afflicted with a stuffed language, emptily "poetic", the degradation of great poetry -
12. In a letter of that autumn Eliot confessed to using Arnold as a scarecrow - apparently lifeless, but having under his arm a real gun to be fired against the old guard.