King Log

King Log
"король чурбан", рохля, тюфяк (о человеке пассивном, не умеющем использовать представившиеся ему возможности); см. тж. King Stork

...what pleases other people, will always please me. Only I wish we have not got King Stork instead of King Log, like the fablian [= fable] that the Clerk of Saint Lambert's used to read us out of Meister's Esop's book. (W. Scott, ‘Quentin Durward’, ch. XXI) — ...я всегда доволен, когда другие довольны. А только у меня нет никакого желания променять короля чурбана на короля Аиста, подобно лягушкам из басни, которую причетник святого Ламберта читал нам, бывало, из книги Эзопа.

Into that somewhat cold-waterish region adventurers of the sensational kind come down now and then with a splash, to become disregarded King Logs before the next session. (J. R. Lowell, ‘My Study Windows’, ‘emerson the Lecturer’) — чтение лекций - дело непростое, чреватое всякими неожиданностями. Иной раз вдруг появится блестящий оратор, выступит с циклом сенсационных лекций. А к началу нового сезона о нем уже никто не помнит.


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

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