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Перевод: crook

[существительное]
крюк ; обманщик ; пастуший посох; посох ; поворот ; изгиб ручья ; плут ;
[глагол]
изгибать; искривлять; скрючивать; сгибать; скрючиваться; сгибаться; горбиться; ловить крючком; вылавливать крючком; вылавливать; украсть; спереть

Тезаурус:

1. We have had forewarning of a number of acid house parties and we've managed, by hook or by crook, to stop them."
2. He may be taught to hold it with the crook of the handle turned away from him, and his thumb over the top of the handle, so that he does not grip the stick too hard.
3. As he has said "the man who throws a race is a crook for life", it is fair to guess that Melges'" day off" was for no other reason than that he wanted no part of any manipulation of points.
4. He stumbled, and although he felt frantically with his crook for firm ground to steady himself and regain his balance, he pitched forward into a steep-sided dell, upon the edge of the moor.
5. Clearly in this arid region with its brief period of insect food availability for raising young such assistance is vital if both sexes are to participate in a successful breeding (Crook and Butterfield 1970).
6. Nathan Adams, 18, David Elsom, 17, Jason Green, 17, Simon Lindley, 17, Gavin Saunders, 17, Richard Whittaker, 18 and Nicholas Crook, 18, were sentenced to nine months in a young offenders' institution.
7. (He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures.)
8. He dismissed Mr Crook's argument that the judges should have made orders postponing publication until after the jury's verdict, instead of excluding the press and public.
9. Isn't the phrase just meaningless, flung in for the rhythm, meaning no more than "by pillar or by post", "by night or by day", "by hook or by crook"?
10. The crew, from Crook, Co Durham, were off to their annual dance when the bus filled up with smoke.
11. There is the "Crook Town Affair" of 1928, when 350 amateurs were suspended for accepting excessive "tea money"; West Auckland's "World Cup" triumphs in Italy in 1909 and 1911; the origins of Brian Clough's first club, Billingham Synthonia (named after an agricultural fertiliser!); and the brief flowering of the wonderfully named Thornaby Utopians.
12. In the first period of extra time, Alex Brown put Dynamos ahead and then Nick Crook made it 3-;1 with just five minutes to go.
13. Pauline Crook had difficulty separating from an intense attachment to her own mother, whose death, shortly after Pauline's marriage, aroused her guilt.