be neither to hold nor to bind
- be neither to hold nor to bind
быть сильно взволнованным, взбудораженным, возбужденным, расстроенным
...she, usually reserved, chattered of herself and of the things she took interest in... of tempestuous Russians, neither to hold nor to bind, who tell the girls ghost stories till the girls shriek. (R. Kipling, ‘The Light That Failed’, ch. VII) — ...Мейзи, обычно сдержанная, разболталась о себе и обо всем, что ее занимало... о буянах-русских, с которыми нет никакого сладу и которые пугают девушек рассказами о привидениях.
...the young man... was neither to hold nor to bind... because something had been said about his wife. (EI) — ...молодой человек... не мог скрыть волнения... услыхав, что говорят о его жене.
Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа»..
2006.
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