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NOTES
1
booby
- someone who is insane;
2
booby - hatch
an insane asylum, a hospital for the mentally ill;
3
gloat
- Thurber invented this noun from the verb
gloat "to
look
at with selfish delight" and the expression
to have a gleam in one's eye.
4
as crazy as a jay bird
- insane.
5
Don't count your boobies.... - The actual proverb is
Don't count your
chickens until they are hatched meaning
"don't count on something
before it happens." Cf
. hatch – “to break out of an egg” and
hatch – “to
put someone in a booby-hatch”.
EXERCISES
I.
Give the Russian equivalents:
Breakfast nook, scrambled eggs, crop, browse, gravely, was asleep,
mythical beast, with a high heart, forehead, psychiatrist, a strait-jacket,
solemn, seize, subdue, curse, scream.
II. Give the English equivalents:
мифическое животное, повернулась к нему спиной, пасся среди
тюльпанов, вскочили со стульев, с трудом усмирили, устроила
ужасную борьбу.
Достарыңызбен бөлісу: 
