2214. Wind lead див. В-2202.

2215. blind leader of the blind, а (гак. the blind leading the blind) ^ сліпий веде слі­ пого (про того, хто дає поради, сам не роз­ бираючись у чомусь);

Then the blind is leading the blind, and it will be well to save him (I. Galsworthy).

2216. blind letter лист без адреси; лист з неповною або нечіткою адресою: див. тж. В-2207 та В-2217.

2217. blind man (або reader) поштовий працівник, що розбирає листи без адреси або з неповною, нерозбірливою адресою; див. тж. В-2207 та В-2216.

2218. blind man can (або should) judge no colours присл. ^ судить, як сліпий про кольори [етим. лат. caecus поп judicat de colore].

2219. blind man's (або blind-man's) buff (тж. blind Tom) піжмурки (гра);

"Nancy," he shouted, in astonishment not unmix­ed with annoyance, "what are you playing at?" I don't want a game of blind man's buff" (A. Cro-nin).

2220. blind man's holiday жарт, присмер­ ки;

She told me to "keep blind man's holiday" (E. Gaskell).

2221. blind man would be glad to see, a

жарт. ^ казав сліпий — побачимо;

"What's the news in-doors?"

"Let me see, said the blind man. Why the last news is, that I don't mean to marry your brother" (Ch. Dickens).

2222. blind night дуже темна ніч (коли немає місяця і не видно зірок);

We panted in the close cabin; our faces stream­ed: the bay outside hissed as if boiling; the water fell in perpendicular shafts as heavy as lead; it swished about the deck, poured off the spars, gurgled, sobbed, splashed, murmured in the blind night (7. Conrad).

2223. blind one's (або the) eyes (to some­ thing), to закривати очі (на щось), не помі­ чати (чогось); див. тж. С-784;

In looking with justified confidence to the future we cannot afford for one moment to blind our eyes to the continuing dangers. Although the principle of peaceful co-existence has been recognized, noth­ing has yet been changed in the policies and stra­tegic set-up which are based on the premises of nuclear war (L. M., luly, 1956).

2224. blind path ледве помітна стежка>.

It was useless to try and keep the blind path, and he could only be careful that his steps should be bent in the direction of the park-gate (G. Eliot).

2225. blind pig (або tiger) амер. заст. та­ ємний шинок, місце незаконного продажу спиртних .напоїв (під час «сухого закону»);

Billy Farrell and his friend Watson ate at a beanery on Howard Street, then wandered down to the front. Watson knew which joints were alive and led the way to the shamrock, a blind pig locat­ed in an alley a half block off the waterfront on Clay Street (Beth McHenry and Frederick N. My­ers).

2226. blind reader див. В-2217.

2227. blind side (або spot), one's [тж. one's blank side; one's weak place (або point, side, spot)] чиєсь слабке, уразливе, дошкуль­ не місце;

І think it would be much more decent and becom­ing, if those who hooked and crooked themselves into this family by getting on the blind side of some of its members before marriage... refrain from act­ing the part of vultures in regard to other mem­bers of this family who are living (Ch. Dickens).

I suppose we all have a blind spot somewhere (J. Galsworthy).

Tess's heart quivered — he was touching her in a weak place (Th. Hardy).

Roses were the fellow's forte, or rather his weak point — he cared for nothing else... (J. Galsworthy).

2228. blind staggers сл. нерівна хода, по­ хитування (про хвору або п'яну людину); див. тж. S-1865.

2229. blind story розповідь, оповідання, що не досягає мети; оповідання без «солі».

2230. blind the eyes (to something), to див. B-2223.

2231. blind tiger див. В-2225.

2232. blind Tom див. В-2219.

2233. blind to the world див. D-955.

2234. blind window див. В-2Щ).

2235. blink the question, to замовчувати, обходити, ігнорувати запитання;

"Yes, I paid it, every farthing," replied Squeers, who seemed to know the man he had to deal with too well to suppose that any blinking of the ques­tion would induce him to subscribe towards the expenses (Ch. Dickens).

2236. (as) blithe as a bird (або as a sand boy, sand-boy, sandboy) дуже веселий, без­ турботний; див. тж. С-567;

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Then she fled along the pavement, blithe as a bird, until she was breathless with her flight (A. Coppard).

He was in precisely the same position, only worse, because married; and yet she felt as blithe as a 'sand-boy' (J. Galsworthy).

2237. blithe bread (або meat) заст. їжа, якою частують гостей на хрестинах.

2238. blizzard collar жіночий високий сто­ ячий, комір.

2239. Blizzard State, the амер. «штат сніж­ ної хуртовини» (так називають штат Пів­ нічна Дакота) [знаходиться на півночі США].

2240. bloated aristocrat «дутий аристо­ крат», гордовита, пихата, зарозуміла люди­ на (про людей, що вихваляються своїм ста­ ном, знанням або багатством).

2241. bloated herring копчений оселедець.

2242. block capitals друковані великі букви;

The letters, written in ink in block capitals, and posted unstamped, were addressed to the Bristol Evening Post and the Bristol Evening World, whose editors handed them to the police (D. W. L., June 29, 1967).

2243. block letters друковані букви;

There was nobody there. I picked up the letter and saw that it was addressed to Max Kelada. The name was written in block letters (W. Maugham).

2244. block the bill, to парл. затримувати проходження законопроекту; див. тж. К-375 та R-6.

2245. block vote, а пол. механічна біль­ шість;

But trade unionism alone, as Marxism has al­ways taught, only generates trade union conscious­ness, however militant. The battle for socialism has therefore to be fought in the trade unions if it is to be won in the Labour Party. Otherwise capitalist politics will inevitably dominate the Labour Party and use the trade union block vote as its bludgeon against the aspirations of individual socialists (L. M., Nov., 1956).

2246. blood and iron безпощадне застосу­ вання сили (звідси blood-and-iron policy — політика нещадного застосування сили) [етим. чім. Blut und Eisen (принцип політи­ ки Бісмарка)].

2247. blood and thunder! (тж. death and lightning!) грім і блискавка!, хай йому чорт!

"Death and lightning!" exclaimed the young gentleman, laying his hand upon his sword, as my uncle entered the coach.

'Blood and thunder!" roared the other gentle­man. With this he whipped his sword out, and made з lunge at my uncle without further ceremony (Cft. Dickens).

2248. blood and thunder (або blood-and- thunder) tale (тж. novel of blood and thun­ der; penny dreadful; penny-dreadful; penny horrible; penny-horrible; англ. shilling shock­ er; tuppenny-ha'penny dreadful; амер. dime novel; ten-cent novel) дешевий сенсаційний або детективний роман, сенсаційна бульвар­ на література;

І used to read penny dreadfuls about having adventures and being a great commander and'all that rot (H. Wells).

It's my belief that half the money we give him is spent in penny horribles (R. Tressell).

And what moonshine we are being treated to in some of the tuppenny-ha'penny dreadfuls! (D. W. L., Oct. 8, 1957).

I sold all my salable marbles and dime novels, and got about twelve cents (E. Seton-Thompson).