change one's spots

change one's spots
измениться до неузнаваемости, изменить свою природу [часть библ. выражения can the leopard change his spots?; см. can the leopard change his spots?]

She did not believe that men who had been lauding Hitler and Mussolini, and approving of their regimes only a few weeks before war was declared could change their spots over night. (K. S. Prichard, ‘Winged Seeds’, ch. XXVII) — Салли не верила, что те самые люди, которые превозносили Гитлера и Муссолини и за неделю до объявления войны восхваляли их режим, могли, словно по волшебству, претерпеть столь внезапную и коренную перемену в мыслях.

I'm a coward. You cannot expect me to change my spots so soon. (Gr. Greene, ‘The Man Within’, ch. V) — Я трус, и вы не можете ожидать, чтобы моя природа изменилась так быстро.

In spite of everything Mr Smith has done to make clear that he intends at all costs to maintain a white racialist dictatorship in Rhodesia, the British Government still professes to believe that he may yet change his spots. — Несмотря на все, что сделал мистер Смит для того, чтобы подтвердить свою решимость любой ценой сохранить расистскую диктатуру белых в Родезии, английское правительство все еще считает, что мистер Смит может измениться до неузнаваемости.

This manifesto shows that the Tories have not changed their spots... — Предвыборная программа тори показывает, что они верны себе...


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

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