be on one's hind legs

be on one's hind legs
(be (или get up) on one's hind legs)
1) встать на дыбы, воспротивиться, заупрямиться; прийти в ярость [букв. встать на дыбы (о лошади)]

...we were selling them engines, and would have sold 'em anything else we'd got. Good for trade. Nice business. And lads just out of school - and their mothers and the girls they might have married - they pay lor it. Why didn't I see it all coming and get up on my hind legs and shout? (J. B. Priestley, ‘Daylight on Saturday’, ch. 29) — ...мы продавали немцам паровозы и готовы были продать все, что у нас имеется. Выгодная торговля! Отличные сделки! А мальчики со школьной скамьи, их матери и девушки, на которых могли эти мальчики жениться, - расплачиваются теперь за нас. Как это я не предвидел всего того, что надвигалось, почему не встал на дыбы, не завыл!

2) шутл. подняться, чтобы произнести речь (тж. be on one's legs или get on to one's hind legs)

Soames... gathered that Michael was to get on to his hind legs in the House at first opportunity. (J. Galsworthy, ‘The Silver Spoon’, part I, ch. XI) — Сомс... понял, что Майкл при первом удобном случае непременно разразится речью в палате.


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

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