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Перевод: squib
[существительное]
петарда ; шутиха ; пиропатрон ; эпиграмма ; памфлет ; пасквиль ;
[глагол]
взрывать петарды; взрывать шутихи; взрываться; метаться; пис`ать эпиграммы; пис`ать памфлеты; пис`ать пасквили
Тезаурус:
- "We thought it was a damp squib.
- It often happens, especially if you train only spasmodically, that you start off the season with a personal best time, get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib.
- The general opinion was that it had fizzled out; like a spent squib, it hadn't even given one burst.
- But a panel of youngsters asked by TODAY to review the show declared it to be more damp squib than hot stuff.
- Be it an O.Henry squib with a sting in its tail or a Chekhov mood piece, a good short story remains in the mind like no other form.
- Finance minister Tsutomu Hata needs to have in mind a more convincing package of measures than last week's widely expected damp squib to get Japan Inc back into top gear.
- The civilization flourished for more than a millennium until, about 1400 BC, the comparatively nearby volcanic island of Thera erupted in a fashion that makes the 1883 Krakatoa event look like a mere squib.
- No disrespect to Philip Young, the conductor, or to any of the performers, but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band!
- "So much depends", says the little squib (for it is nothing more), on the wheelbarrow, the glaze of rain, the chickens.
- I was just a squib and he was a sixformer, very fine chap and took no notice of grubby little oicks.
- IT NEEDED a firework display last night by all three English sides battling to stay in Europe - but it all turned out as a damp squib.
- Sadly, the furore surrounding its launch means it was a damp squib, vanishing without a trace and leaving African American foodies to return to the other essential flavour of the month, the hugely popular Homeboy and Homegirl crisps.
- While the first week looks a bit of a damp squib, the full moon on the 10th and the sun-Pluto conjunction of the 14th could leave their transformational mark on you.
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