130. Dead from the neck up див. D-116. -

131. dead frost, а сл. повна невдача, по­ разка, повне невезіння, ^ пропаща справа;

The song and dance were a "dead frost" (H. Wells).

132. Dead gone on one див. В-629.

133. dead hand 1) мертва хватка;

With the dead hand of ihe China embargo considerably lifted, first moves were made yester­day by big tractor, truck and machine-tqol firms to pin down the Board of Trade to cases, and to renew contacts with the Chinese (D. №. L., June 1, І967).

2) вправна в чомусь людина; людина, що не дасть маху; людина не промах;

Mirabolant is a dead hand with the foils (W. Thackeray).

3) юр. «мертва рука», володіння юридич­ ної особи майном без права передачі його; див. тж. 1-172.

134. dead head розм. 1) бгзквитковий від­ відувач театрів; безквитковий пасажир, «заєць»; 2) стовбур зрізаного дерева;

The current at once swept him away, but fortu­nately in such a direction that he was enabled to catch the slunting end of a "dead head" log whose lower end was jammed in the crib. The dead head was slippery, the current strong (S. White).

135. dead heat, а спорт, змагання, в якому двоє або більше учасників приходять до фі­ нішу одночасно.

136. dead horse робота, за яку одержано плату заздалегідь; •див. тж. В-208;

A dead horse was work you got paid for before you finished it (NEF).

137. dead hours години нічної тиші, глуха ніч.

138. dead letter 1) мертва буква закону, закон, якого не додержують [етим. бібл.] (тж. dead letter of the law);

...Trades Union rules were a dead letter in Mugsborough (#. Tressell).

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and The Living Corpse give us a vivid picture of the'tragedy of woman in czarist Russia and how human feelings died under the burden of the dead letter of the law (N. M., Oct. 9, 1945).

2) недоставлений адресатові лист; лист, якого адресат не вимагав;

"І wonder what these ghost of mailcoaches carry in their bags," said the landlord, who had listened to the whole story with profound attention.

"The dead letters, of course," said the bagman (Ch. Dickens).

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139. dead letter of the law див. D-138, 1).

140. dead level одноманітний ландшафт; перен. одноманітність, монотонність;

Не was getting on towards the dead level of middle age (Tk. Hardy).

141. dead lift (або pull) даремне, марне зусилля.

'І42. dead load (або weight) мертвий ван­таж; тягар;

Marian had been like a sack of meal, or dead weight of plumpness under which he had literally staggered (Тії. Hardy).

As the months went on the heat became a dead weight (K. S. Pricliard).

143. dead lock (тж. dead-lock, deadlock) мертва точка, тупик; див. тж. В-2202;

We have him in a dead lock (W Thackeray).

144. dead loss чиста втрата, чистий зби­ ток;

The advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss (Ch. Dickens).

145. deadly feud 1} непримирима, смер­ тельна ворожнеча; 2) кровна помста (тж. blood feud).

146. deadly (або mortal) sin рел. та перен. смертний гріх;

We become sick of cardinal virtues and deadly sins, and long lor the society of plain men and women (Til. Macaulay).

...I say it were mortal sin to fight on such a quarrel (A. Doyle).

147. deadly silence (або stillness) див. D-160.

148. dead marines (або men) розм. порож­ ні пляшки (з-під вина);

...Fresh bottles were brought, ihe "dead men," meaning the empty bottles, removed (W. Thack­eray).

149. dead men don't bite (тж. dead men tell no tales) присл. ^ мертві не шко­ дять, мертвий не скаже [етим. першого виразу лат. mortui non mordent]; див. тж. S-2202;

They made an imposing adventure of it, saying "Hist!" every now and then and suddenly halting with finger on lip; moving with hands on imaginary dagger-hilts; and giving orders in dismal whispers that i[ "the foe" stirred, to "let him have it to the hilt," because "dead men tell no tales" (M. Twain).

150. dead (або. depth) of night, the глуха ніч;

It was nearly two hours before day-break; that time which in the autumn of the year, may be truly called the dead of night... (Ch. Dickens).

151. dead of winter, the зима в. розпалі; ' див. тж. I-84S;

October went by, and November. Et was the dead of winter almost before he knew it, and there he sat (Tk. Dreiser).

152. dead pull див. D-141.

153. dead rabbit амєр. сл. заст. гангстер,' головоріз (переважно в Нью-Йорку).

154. dead sea мертве море;

The long dead sea was very grey and cold (H. Came).

155. dead sea apple (060 fruit) красивий, але гнилий плід; перен. обманливий, непев­ ний успіх [за переказами, біля Содома, не­ далеко від Мертвого моря, росли красиві яблука, які перетворювалися на дим і золу, коли до них доторкувалися]; див. тж. А-504;

"As a sensible man/' said Soames, "you know that these Society scandals are always dead sea fruit — nothing but costs and vexation, and a feast Eor all the gossips about town" (J. Galsworthy).

156. dead (або dull,, off) season, the мерт-І вий сезон;

If it had not been the dead season, and the hotel comparatively empty, the management might have interfered. But, as things were, the few visitors enjoyed the free entertainment (F. Danby).

157. dead secret, a велика таємниця; див. тж. В-149 та О-829;

І feel that I should not tell you all this, but I can't help it. Of course our engagement is a deati secret. She has not even told her mother (O. Wilde).