large as life

large as life
((as) large (амер. big) as life)
1) в натуральную величину

The statue was as large as life. (ALD) — Статуя была в натуральную величину.

2) действительный, подлинный, несомненный; заметный, бросающийся в глаза

Perhaps the most real character in any play we know of is the character of Falstaff done by Shakespeare. Here is realism as large as life... (S. O'Casey, ‘The Flying Wasp’, ‘Green Goddess of Realism’) — Возможно, самым реалистическим персонажем в мировой драматургии является шекспировский Фальстаф. Вот вам образец полнокровного реализма...

Dad began to glance over the hotel register, and there he read as big as life, "T. C. Brown and wife, Santa Inez". (U. Sinclair, ‘Oil’, ch. 18) — Отец стал перелистывать книгу с именами гостей отеля. В книге черным по белому было написано: "Т. С. Браун с женой, Санта-Инец"

Well, there it is, a few miles of it, sticking well up out of the water, large as life, and not a sign of it on the charts. (J. B. Priestley, ‘Faraway’, ch. I) — Вот он, этот остров, длиной и шириной в несколько миль, возвышается над водой у всех на глазах, а на морских картах он и не значится.

3) разг.; шутл. собственной персоной; во всей красе; как живой (обыкн. о портрете) (тж. as large (амер. big) as life and twice as natural) [выражение as large as life and twice as natural первонач. амер.]

‘What-is-this?’ he said at last. ‘This is a child!’ Haigha replied... ‘It's as large as life and twice as natural.’ (L. Carroll, ‘Through the Looking-Glass’, ch. VII) — - Что это такое? - наконец спросил носорог. - Это ребенок, - ответила Хайга... - Это вполне нормальный ребенок, только раза в два толще, чем полагается.

There on each side of it were the groups of miniatures... Well, there they were! Ann, Juley, Hester, Susan - quite a small child; Swithin, with sky-blue eyes, pink cheeks, yellow curls, white waistcoat - large as life... (J. Galsworthy, ‘To Let’, part I, ch. IV) — По обе стороны двери висели миниатюры... Вот они все! Энн, Джули, Эстер, Сьюзен - совсем еще маленькой девочкой, Суизин с небесно-голубыми глазами, розовыми щечками, желтыми локонами, в белом жилете - совсем как живой...

When I turned round, there he was, big as life... (E. Caldwell, ‘God's Little Acre’, ch. VIII) — Когда я повернулся, то передо мной стоял Албино, собственной персоной...

He marched up and down afore the street door like a peacock, as large as life and twice as natural. (DC) — Это был он собственной персоной. Он ходил взад и вперед перед парадным ходом, красуясь как павлин.


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

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