761. At a heat див. А-746.

762. at a jump 1) зразу, відразу; з пер­ шого разу;

...You've got the right guess at a jump (M. Dodge).

2) разом, заразом; за одним заходом;

At a jump he was denouncing Darwinism and evolution (H. Wells).

763. at all 1) заст. зовсім, цілком (у ствер­ джувальних реченнях);

2. зовсім, цілком (у заперечних речен­ нях,);

3. взагалі (у стверджувальних, питальних та умовних підрядних реченнях);

Mr. d'Urberville says you must be a good girl if you are at all as you appear (Th. Hardy).

764. at all adventure див. А-754.

765. at all costs (тж. at all hazards; at any cost; at any price) за всяку ціну, що б не сталося, що б там не було; див. тж. В-3081, 1) та N-417;

І must get this job at all costs (A. Cronin). „

I have undergone so much in this distant place, as to have decided to leave it at all hazards (Ch. Dickens).

If you feel sure in your own heart there is something you desperately need to do... then carry on at any cost (7. Lindsay).

She felt that she would do well to be useful again — to taste anew sweet independence at any price (Th. Hardy).

766. at (або in) all events [тж. at all rates; заст. at (або in) any hand; at any rate; in any case; заст. of all hands] у всякому ви­ падку або разі;

There could be no two opinions about it — the fellow had made himself liable for that extra four hundred, or, at all events, for three hundred and fifty of it, and he would have to make it good (J. Galsworthy).

At any rate, I can't and wouldn't want to do anything about it (Th. Dreiser).

767. at all hazards див. А-765.

768. at all hours у будь-який час;

They knock me up at all hours of the night, take medicine to an extent which I should have conce­ived impossible (Ch. Dickens).

769. at all points у всіх відношеннях; всюди, скрізь, з усіх боків.

770. At all rates див. А-766.

771. at all seasons див. А-772.

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772. at all times (тж. рідк. at all seasons) завжди, постійно;

At all seasons and times the long and uninter­rupted repose of a child was the repose that I enjoyed (W. Collins).

773. at a loose (або an idle) end [тж. at loose ends; розм. on the hummer; out of col­ lar; out of employment (або place, job, work) заст. out of play] незайнятий, без діла, без роботи (часто вживається з дієсловом to be);

She's at a loose end, you know, badly wants something to do (J. Galsworthy).

Billy had not gone hungry since he arrived. Pedro was a better port than 'Frisco for seamen on the hummer (Beth McHenry and Frederick N. Myers).

The old butler has been out of collar since last autumn (J. Dixon).

"Well, I'm trying to make a third bed, but I can't get the extra labour."

Soames gazed at his gardener... "What?" he said. "When there are about a million and a half people out of employment?" (J. Galsworthy).

1 was out of work four months (J. Steele).

774. at a low ebb (тж. at an ebb) на спаді (про відплив); перен. у дуже поганому ста­ ні; у занепаді;

The miners were on strike and things at a very low ebb there, lots of men hanging about and ready to rush any promising prospect (K. S. Prichard).

775. at (або on) a low level 1) на низь­ кому рівні;

That quality in American education stands at a very low level today hardly anyone seems to doubt (The Worker, March 1, 1959).

2) у нижчих інстанціях; див. тж. А-998.

776. at a moment's notice [тж. at (або on) short notice] в перший-ліпший момент, вмить, негайно, на першу вимогу, хоч зараз; див. тж. А-797;

All the public buildings were organized so as to be turned into forts at a moment's notice (J. Lindsay).

I could see that this good fellow was uncomfort­able, almost uneasy, that a person of my attain­ments should be chasing round, at short notice, for a junior's job (A. Cronin).

"The boy's right bad, Robert. We have a car at the door and he's all wrapped in blankets. I want to fetch him to you now."

I wasn't sure that it was correct to make this irregular admission, on short notice (A. Cronin).

777. at a morsel за один ковток;

The dog was by no means pleased at meeting so suddenly a creature that had only to open his mouth to swallow him up at a morsel (E. Bulwer-Lytton).

778. at (або on, upon) an average (тж. on the average) в середньому;

After about six weeks in his service, I found that the "night jobs in the country," previously ment­ioned, happened on an average about twice a week (J. Greenwood).

779. at an early date скоро, незабаром;

Discoveries which she made at an early date after marriage concerning most of her husband's bachelor friends, ...excluded them from her board accordingly (Ch. Bronte).

780. at an easy rate дешево, без зайвих витрат, за схожу, приступну ціну; без вели­ ких зусиль.

780. at an ebb див. А-774.

781. at an idle end див. А-773.

780. at an unearthly (або ungodly) hour (of the morning) дуже рано, коли люди ще сплять, б неслушний час;

Dreading that he had overlooked some vital symptom, he restrained himself with difficulty from rising and revisiting the case at an unearthly hour of the morning (A. Cronin).