DIRT

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dirt substantiv

1. murdărie; gunoi; jeg; excremente;

all over dirt murdărit de sus până jos, împroşcat de noroi;

heap of dirt grămadă de gunoi;

hard dirt moloz, dărâmături;

(amer. vulg.) to dish the dirt a bârfi, a împroşca cu noroi;

(as) cheap as dirt ieftin de tot / ca braga, pe nimic;

to treat smb. like dirt a desconsidera / a dispreţui pe cineva, a trata ca pe un câine, a călca în picioare.

2. pământ, lut, noroi;

(sl.) yellow dirt aur;

(sl.) to cut dirt a merge repede; a fugi, a-şi lua tălpăşiţa.

3. (geol.) aluviune, nămol.

4. (mine) pământ aurifer.

5. mârşăvie, mişelie, porcărie, josnicie;

(amer. sl.) to do smb. dirt a-i face o porcărie / o mârşăvie cuiva;

to talk dirt a spune porcării / obscenităţi.

6. vorbe injurioase, calomnii;

to fling / to throw / to cast dirt at a împroşca cu noroi, a insulta, a face de ocară / albie de porci;

to eat dirt a înghiţi umilinţe, a fi într-o situaţie degradantă, a se înjosi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“The time was, Mas'r Davy,” he said, as we came downstairs, “when I thowt this girl, Martha, a'most like the dirt underneath my Em'ly's feet. God forgive me, theer's a difference now!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And well they might, for I never saw so much dirt in my life.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

How can you think of dirt, with such objects before you?

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

"I am down in the dirt at your feet," Martin repeated to himself again and again.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

In that house, which she had hardly entered twice a year since Mr. Norris's death, she became a welcome, an invited guest, and in the gloom and dirt of a November day, most acceptable to Mary Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

In a country life I conceive it to be a sort of necessary; for, let a woman have ever so many resources, it is not possible for her to be always shut up at home;—and very long walks, you know—in summer there is dust, and in winter there is dirt.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

But they did not know her, and thought it must be some strange princess, she looked so fine and beautiful in her rich clothes; and they never once thought of Ashputtel, taking it for granted that she was safe at home in the dirt.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

It is a mixed quality to my mind, half a virtue and half a vice: a virtue in holding a man out of the dirt; a vice in making it hard for him to rise when once he has fallen.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was now but an hour later than the time fixed on for the beginning of their walk; and, in spite of what she had heard of the prodigious accumulation of dirt in the course of that hour, she could not from her own observation help thinking that they might have gone with very little inconvenience.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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