a jig-saw puzzle

a jig-saw puzzle
(a jig-saw (или jigsaw) puzzle)
составная картинка-загадка, разрезная картинка (головоломка, в которой нужно сложить мелкие кусочки, чтобы получилась картинка)

Julie, who considered any discussion about money to be slightly vulgar, had become engrossed in a jig-saw puzzle. (R. Greenwood, ‘Mr. Bunting’, ch. III) — Джули, считавшая разговоры о деньгах признаком дурного тона, была занята складыванием разрезной картинки.

Methodically he finished the examination... Every sign and every symptom they fitted as superbly as a complex jigsaw puzzle. (A. J. Cronin, ‘The Citadel’, book I, ch. 8) — Он методически проделал осмотр... Все признаки, все симптомы сходились так же точно, как элементы сложной мозаики-головоломки.

I began to feel that even the little the department knew about espionage activities in this district was all wrong. I was still wrong. I was still idly fumbling with these inadequate bits of the jig-saw puzzle when the six o'clock news burst into the lounge. (J. B. Priestley, ‘Black-out in Gretley’, ch. 8) — Я начинал думать, что даже и эти сведения о шпионаже в Гретли были неверны. Но я ошибался. Я все еще разбирался в отдельных клочках этой загадки-головоломки, когда громкоговоритель оглушил меня очередными сообщениями с фронта.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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