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Перевод: dunghill

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Тезаурус:

1. They attacked the Prayer Book as "a Mass book full of abominations, culled out of the Popish dunghill".
2. It was narrow self-interest, according to his critics, which led the General to veto Britain's entry into the Common Market: in Macmillan's words, he wants to be the cock on a small dunghill instead of having two cocks on a larger one.
3. Italian fakers traditionally encouraged the rapid development of a patina by such measures as exposing the bronze on the workshop roof for some months, or by burying the piece in a dunghill.
4. The rationale here is colourfully illustrated by Lord Ellenborough's dictum in Gardiner v Gray (1815) 4 Camp 144 to the effect that a person does not buy goods simply for the pleasure of depositing them on a dunghill.
5. "Everybody knows Harlowe Place," Lovelace comments dismissively, "for, like Versailles, it is sprung up from a dunghill, within every elderly person's remembrance."
6. Their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of a girl's badly-acted laughter from behind the bead curtain which led to the interior of the brothel, punctuated by the growling of a man who is under the illusion that he is cock of the dunghill.
7. SIR JACOB: Twould have been strange indeed if someone had not translated this fine flower from the dunghill to the garden, Madam, let me tell you you are the first lady I have seen who has exceeded expectation.