send in one's papers

send in one's papers
подать в отставку; подать рапорт о выходе в отставку (об офицере)

Lady M: "He is sending in his papers." Rozanne: "Sending in his papers?" Lady M: "There is a hard-and-fast rule in his regiment that any officer who marries an actress automatically resigns his commission."(N. Coward, ‘Operette’, act II, sc. IV) — Леди М: "Придется Найджелу подать в отставку." Розанна: "Подать в отставку?" Леди М: "В его полку существует правило: офицер, который женится на актрисе, уходит в отставку".


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

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Смотреть что такое "send in one's papers" в других словарях:

  • send in one's papers — phrasal : resign …   Useful english dictionary

  • send — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. dispatch, forward, transmit, broadcast; impel, drive; slang, excite, move (see excitement). See transfer, propulsion. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To dispatch] Syn. transmit, forward, convey, advance,… …   English dictionary for students

  • One-time pad — Excerpt from a one time pad In cryptography, the one time pad (OTP) is a type of encryption, which has been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly. Each bit or character from the plaintext is encrypted by a modular addition with a bit …   Wikipedia

  • One-Shot Entanglement-Enhanced Classical Communication — In the theory of quantum communication, it is well known that entanglement cannot increase the capacity of a classical communication channel in the sense of Shannon, that is, for an i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed) protocol.… …   Wikipedia

  • Characters of One Tree Hill — This article contains main and recurring character information for the American Teen drama television series One Tree Hill . Main charactersCharacters are listed by credit order and alphabetically. Starring season(s) refers to the season in which …   Wikipedia

  • The Aspern Papers — Infobox Book | name = The Aspern Papers image caption = Cover of 1976 Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Aspern Papers author = Henry James country = United Kingdom, United States language = English genre = Novella publisher = Macmillan and… …   Wikipedia

  • List of One Tree Hill characters — The original five from the first season; Upper row (L R) Lucas, Peyton and Haley. Lower row (L R) Brooke and Nathan. One Tree Hill is an American television series created by Mark Schwahn for The WB in 2003. After its third season, The WB and UPN …   Wikipedia

  • Foul papers — is a term that refers to an author s working drafts, most often applied in the study of the plays of Shakespeare and other dramatists of English Renaissance drama. Once the composition of a play was finished, a transcript or fair copy of the foul …   Wikipedia

  • Trent Affair — James Murray Mason (1798–1871). John Sli …   Wikipedia

  • Media and Publishing — ▪ 2007 Introduction The Frankfurt Book Fair enjoyed a record number of exhibitors, and the distribution of free newspapers surged. TV broadcasters experimented with ways of engaging their audience via the Internet; mobile TV grew; magazine… …   Universalium

  • dismiss — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. send away; discharge, liberate, disband; cancel (law). See nullification, ejection, liberation. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To send away] Syn. discard, reject, decline, repel, repudiate, dispatch,… …   English dictionary for students


Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное

Прямая ссылка:
Нажмите правой клавишей мыши и выберите «Копировать ссылку»