a Dear John

a Dear John
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"дорогой Джон, ты мне больше не нужен" (письмо от жены с просьбой о разводе или от возлюбленной о разрыве отношений) [первонач. воен.; жарг.]

‘I didn't know you were married.’ ‘I'm not.’ ‘Leave a girl behind, get a Dear John?’ ‘No, there're no loose ends in back of me.’ (N. Mailer, ‘The Naked and the Dead’, part I, ch. 6) — - я не знал, что ты женат. - А я не женат. - что, сам к девушке не вернулся или она тебе отказ прислала? - Да нет у меня никакой девушки.

‘Have you got a sweetheart?’ ‘I'm married, sir.’ ‘Do you want to see your wife again?..’ ‘She left me about a year ago, sir. I got a Dear John.’ (N. Mailer, ‘The Naked and the Dead’, part I, ch. 6) — - У вас есть возлюбленная? - я женат, сэр. - Не хочется ли вам снова повидаться с женой?.. - Вот уже около года, как она бросила меня, сэр. я получил письмо, в котором она дала мне отставку.


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

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