‘Don't you ever get tired listening to those calamity howlers?’ Eddie asked. (A. Saxton, ‘The Great Midland’, part II, ‘1927’) — - Неужели тебе не надоело слушать, как эти вороны каркают? - спросил Эдди.
Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.
calamity howler — noun : one that makes dismal predictions of impending disaster * * * calamity howler or calamity shouter, U.S. a noisy pessimist: »[They] were of the stripe of calamity shouters whose occupation is gone unless they can prove that calamity stalks… … Useful english dictionary
calamity howler — n. pessimist, someone who always sees potential disaster … English contemporary dictionary
calamity shouter — calamity howler or calamity shouter, U.S. a noisy pessimist: »[They] were of the stripe of calamity shouters whose occupation is gone unless they can prove that calamity stalks abroad (Congressional Record) … Useful english dictionary
Cassandra — Synonyms and related words: Druid, Eeyore, Jeremiah, admonisher, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, cautioner, crepehanger, crystal gazer, cynic, defeatist, divinator, diviner, divineress, flagman, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower,… … Moby Thesaurus
Druid — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra, Druidess, Parsi, Sabaist, Zoroastrian, animal worshiper, anthropolater, arborolater, archaeolater, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, chthonian, crystal gazer, daduchus, demon worshiper, demonolater,… … Moby Thesaurus
astrologer — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra, Chaldean, Druid, astroalchemist, astrologian, astromancer, augur, calamity howler, crystal gazer, divinator, diviner, divineress, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller,… … Moby Thesaurus
augur — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra, Druid, adumbrate, argue, astrologer, bespeak, betoken, bid fair to, bode, calamity howler, crystal gazer, divinator, divine, diviner, divineress, forebode, forecast, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer,… … Moby Thesaurus
crystal gazer — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, divinator, diviner, divineress, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, palmist, predictor, prefigurer,… … Moby Thesaurus
cynic — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra, Eeyore, Thersites, backbiter, belittler, calamity howler, calumniator, caustic critic, debunker, decrier, defamer, defeatist, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, hatchet man, killjoy,… … Moby Thesaurus
defeatist — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra, Cassandra like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Eeyore, calamity howler, cynic, cynical, dismal, downbeat, gloomy, killjoy, malist, negative, negativist, negativistic, nihilist, nihilistic, pessimist, pessimistic,… … Moby Thesaurus
diviner — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra, Comus, Druid, Faust, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, conjurer, crystal gazer, diabolist, divinator, divineress, dowser, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer … Moby Thesaurus
