all the world and his wife
- all the world and his wife
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1) все без исключения, большая компания, много народу [выражение создано Дж. Свифтом; см. цитату]
Miss: "Pray, Madam, who were the Company?" Lady Smart: "Why, there was all the world and his wife." (J. Swift, ‘Swift's Polite Conversation’, ‘Dialogue III’) — Мисс: "Скажите, пожалуйста, кто же там был?" Леди Смарт: "Кого только там не было!"
‘All the world and his wife’, as the proverb goes, were trying to trample upon me. (G. G. Byron, ‘Letters’, A Letter to W. Scott, 1822, OED) — Все, кому не лень, как говорится, пытались растоптать меня.
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Seems to me all the world and his wife are at the Solomon Hotel. (A. Christie, ‘Appointment with Death’, part I, ch. 2) — Похоже, что весь цвет общества собрался в отеле "Соломон".
Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа»..
2006.
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