SLEEVE

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Traducere în limba română

sleeve substantiv

1. mânecă;

to have smth. up one’s sleeve a avea o resursă ascunsă la îndemână;

he has smth. up his sleeve are un gând ascuns;

to laugh in one’s sleeve a râde pe furiş / în barbă / pe sub mustaţă, a se bucura pe tăcute / în ascuns;

to turn / to roll up one’s sleeve a-şi sufleca mânecile (şi fig.) a se pregăti de luptă;

to wear one’s heart up(on) one’s sleeve a fi foarte sincer / deschis / lipsit de rezervă;

to pluck smb’s sleeve a trage pe cineva de mânecă.

2. (tehn.) manşon, tub, cartuş.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

A sudden idea seemed to occur to Holmes, for he leaned forward and touched the lad upon the sleeve.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He spoke with such extraordinary animation that the empty sleeve flapped about in the air, giving him the strangest appearance.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My first glance is always at a woman’s sleeve.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Nigel blinked mildly from one to the other, until at last perceiving a stout black-bearded knight at his elbow, whose laugh rang somewhat louder than the others, he touched him lightly upon the sleeve.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were interrupted by Mrs. Allen: My dear Catherine, said she, do take this pin out of my sleeve; I am afraid it has torn a hole already; I shall be quite sorry if it has, for this is a favourite gown, though it cost but nine shillings a yard.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

He received it on the palm of his hand, then applied it close to his eye to see what it was, and afterwards turned it several times with the point of a pin (which he took out of his sleeve,) but could make nothing of it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Stuck in my sleeve.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Still pulling at my sleeve, she led me away from the cottage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bear would have liked to go at once, but the wolf held him back by the sleeve, and said: “No, you must wait until the lord and lady Queen have gone away again.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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