How to end the adage with the black sheep though. From a black sheep, even a tuft of wool

WITH A LITTLE SHEEP AT LEAST WOOL CLOCK (())

[saying]

⇒ you might as well take whatever you can get from s.o., even though it is unsatisfactory etc, because you will not get anything better and you will be the one to lose out by refusing it (said with disdain about s.o. who produces sth. inferior, is inferior in some way etc):

- ≈ even a mangy sheep is good for a little wool ;

- something is better than nothing ;

- half a loaf is better than none.

♦ "What do you need?" - Bogdashkin already recognized me, his voice is dissatisfied. "Nothing special. A barrel of drying oil." - "Drying oil? - Bogdashkin perceives this as a personal insult. - Are you eating it with bread? last week sent two barrels. No more ... I can give a little alabaster if you want. "-" Damn you, - I agree, - let's alabaster. WITH black sheep even a tuft of wool "(Voinovich 5)." What do you want? "said Bogdashkin, displeased, having recognized me." Nothing special. A barrel of linseed oil. "" Linseed oil? "Bogdashkin took this as a personal affront." What do you do, put it on your bread or something? I sent you two barrels last week. There "s no more. ... I can give you a little alabaster if you want." "The hell with you then," I agreed. "I" ll take the alabaster. Even a mangy sheep "s good for a little wool" (5a).

last

lit. getting a tuft of wool from a mangy sheep is better than nothing; cf. blood out of a stone; half a loaf is better than no bread

Do you need cartridges? Let's give! Thirty pieces for a rider, for the whole brigade. Enough? .. - There is a bunch of wool from the black sheep! - the delighted Bogatyryov smiled and, having said goodbye, left. (M. Sholokhov, Quiet Don)- "You need cartridges, you say? You shall have them! Thirty per rider, for the whole brigade. That enough? .." "Blood out of a stone!" Bogatiryov grinned delightedly and with a brief good-bye left the room.

"He's obviously cowardly. He fed me, put in a ten - and so that there are no traces. Well, thanks for that too. From a black sheep, as they say, at least a tuft of wool." (S. Mstislavsky, Rook is a spring bird)- "He" s jittery, that "s clear," thought Bauman. "Fed me, shoved ten rubles into my hand, and wants me to leave no trace. Well, I can thank him for that much. Half a loaf is better than no bread, as the saying goes."

3 From a black sheep, even a tuft of wool

When you cannot take much from a person, you take what he can afford. See Anything Better Than Nothing (L)

Var .: WITH dashing dog even a tuft of wool. With a dashing (lousy) dog, even a tuft of wool

Cf:

4 from a black sheep even a tuft of wool

Set phrase: a tuft of hair from a mangy mare !, even a bad sheep gives a bit of wool, half a loaf is better than no bread, you can have no more of a cat but her skin , you can have no more of a cat than her skin (used sarcastically to mean: one must be thankful for small mercies, for what little you have managed to gel from him) , everything is good for something

5 From a black sheep, at least a tuft of wool.

phrases. It "s good to gain even a flock of wool from the black sheep.

6 From a black sheep, even a tuft of wool

7 From a black sheep, even a tuft of wool

Everything is good for something

8 NICE

9 CLOCK

10 WOOL

11 SHEEPS

12 WOOL

13 sheep

14 ANYTHING

15 CAT

That a good rat a good cat - On a strong bitch - sharp then (H)
16 DEBTOR

17 FOX

18 PAYMASTER

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With a dashing sheep, at least a tuft of wool- Eat a dashing sheep (mad dog) at least a tuft of wool (inosk.) At least something. Wed You can explain it ... so that you can refer at least to a witness, from which a clump of wool you can pluck, how to open it, so that they do not confuse him ... Dal. Pictures of Russian life ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)

with a dashing (black) sheep (mad dog) even a tuft of wool- (footnote) at least something Wed. You will explain it ... so that you can refer at least to a witness, from whom you can pluck a clump of wool, how to open it, so that they do not confuse him ... Dahl. Pictures of Russian life. 4. Wed I must admit that I tore off a little bit of it ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary

CLOCK- KLOK, ah, pl. shreds, shreds and shreds, ovs, husband. 1. A bunch, a protruding strand. K. hay. K. hair. From a black sheep (dog) even wool to. (Last). 2. A fragment, a flap, a piece of something that has come off. Tear the shirt to shreds. Wraps of fog (trans.). Smart ... ... Explanatory dictionary Ozhegova

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Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

- (1) C (1) [pronounced. s or es]. See es. (2) C (2) see also [co] (1) and [co], verb prefix. Indicates: 1) movement from different directions to one point, eg. converge, bring together (Xia), tie, weld (two pieces of metal), forge, fold, ... ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

Rotten apple injures its neighbors.

From a black sheep, at least a tuft of wool.

A black sheep out of the flock.

Proverbs

- I'm a lousy jackal ... I took the money away from the children.

He robbed the kindergarten. - What culture was found, huh? ..

And when you’re there on the pump gasoline donkey

diluted with urine, wasn't it lousy? - That gasoline, and then - children ...

K-F "Gentlemen of Fortune"

Lousy as a personality trait - the tendency to infect other people with your worst qualities; to manifest yourself as an insignificant, nasty, disgusting, bad and trashy person.

Roadside cafe. A truck driver comes in, orders meat. Then three bikers burst into the cafe and take the trucker's order. The trucker pays the waitress and leaves. The waitress approaches the bikers, and one of them says to her: - Goat! He can't even stand up for himself! Waitress: - He also drives lousy! I just left the parking lot - I crushed three motorcycles ...

A lousy person is a lousy person. As a sent Cossack, he can spoil and disintegrate the healthiest team in the shortest possible time. Hence the proverb about the black sheep that can spoil the whole flock. Lousy - literally, "with scab, scabby", that is, covered with purulent scabs, from which other sheep become infected. From a black sheep you can only take a tuft. A clok is a piece, a bunch of something. Meaning: they take at least what they can take, if it is impossible to get more. They speak with disrespect about someone from whom they do not expect to receive anything worthy. An example from the literature: “Two and a half months later, Vladimir Ilyich arrived at the place of exile, in the village of Shushenskoye, received a notice from the Yenisei governor that he would be given eight rubles a month for maintenance, clothing and an apartment (“ from a black sheep, even a bundle of wool ” , - Vladimir Ilyich said), and sat down to work (N. Virta, “Evening Bells”).

Lousy is terrible in that it is contagious, that it is instantly transmitted, the whole team becomes infected: from the cleaning lady to the boss. For example, a sycophant and a slanderer in one person comes to the collective. Instantly becomes a favorite of the boss, who, as practice has shown, likes to be flattered, when they are fooled in front of him. And now, in the team, whispering, whispering, hooking up, persuading and slandering are already in favor. People seemed to be replaced. Nobody trusts anyone. Trust in a relationship has disappeared, as if someone immediately threw it in the trash. Everyone is on his own. Everyone is tense, angry and secretive. A few months, and the team is doomed if the black sheep is not removed from it.

A black sheep will appear in a decent class, you look at the end of the seventh grade there is not a single virgin and a virgin, everyone smokes and drinks, and some of the "leaders" are already drug addicts.

A lousy person is the owner of a lousy character. Exact composition negative traits no one will give a lousy character. In each specific case, this is manifested individually. It happens that lousy is based on treachery, slander, betrayal and treachery. It happens - on deceit, meanness and insignificance. It happens - on flattery, servility, vileness and groveling. In a word, every time it is different. One thing is important to know quality feature lousy: something terribly trashy and negative in a person is transmitted to others at the speed of an epidemic.

How should you live so that the lousy does not become a member of your family? Philosopher Oleg Torsunov argues that we foolishly find in a spouse not the best, but the most lousy one. We think that we can find good for ourselves. We do not find it. Then we don't know how to get rid of. How to determine whether a person has found a person for himself or fate has given him? Fate always gives the best. And a person finds himself the most disgusting, the most lousy.

One ancient scripture says: "In the spring, the restless jackals roam in search of a male, ready to copulate with the most lousy and wounded, so women, deprived of their fatherly or husband's care, destroy themselves in casual relationships."

When a woman finds a man for herself, he is usually married, and he begins to torment her, not letting go. Fate punishes: you do not need to look for anyone, you need to become such a woman who is worthy of a man, and he will be found himself. because Higher power follow our every step. They know what we need to give. And when it comes time for us to give, they know. Something valuable in life is obtained with hard work. And if you want it faster, please, no problem. Everything is cheap, it is correspondingly lousy. You can't get good things cheaply. It will be fake. Family life same. Therefore, drawing the image of the future husband, his construction, you are building an illusion that will never come true because, truly, a person must build a structure within himself. And then everything outside will reflect your life. If you want to look at your destiny, look around you at those people who are very close to you, and you will see your destiny. If you are surrounded by people who deceive you, are angry with you, swear, then you are.

If you have become a pure, elevated person, people change, the attitude towards you changes, everything becomes different next to you. It means that you have changed. It is very easy to understand who you are by whoever surrounds you. If you want something else to surround, it is not artificially created. We can try to do it, but it doesn't work. We find ourselves a person, at first there is a honeymoon with this person, everything is cool, and then the clouds are gathering, the situation is even worse than it was before. It's terrible to change someone in life, to try to change in order to become happier. Meeting a lousy person then leads to big problems in life, terrible unpredictable situations.

The lousy hare loved all the animals in the forest. The animals decided to take revenge on him. They gathered, surrounded him ... The hare had nowhere to go, and he climbed into the hole. The animals surrounded the hole. - Oblique, get out! - I will not get out, you will beat me! - Of course we will! - Aren't you ashamed? You are all so big ... And I am so small! And all for one? The animals looked at each other, and they really felt ashamed. There are a lot of them, and some lousy hare is trembling in the hole ... - Okay, hare, get out, we won't touch you. - I won't get out. There is a lion among you, it will eat me! - Don't be afraid, he won't eat! - No, he will! If you want me to get out, tie the lion tightly, and hide yourself away ... - Well, okay, hare, do it your way ... The animals tied the lion tightly and went home. As soon as the last animal disappeared in the distance, the hare climbed out of the hole and, trembling, approached the lion. Leo: - What, bastard, are you trembling! Fearfully? Well no! For the first time in his life, the lousy bunny of the king of beasts will have! I'm trembling with excitement!

Petr Kovalev

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"Even wool from a black sheep ..."

Alternative descriptions

Upper women's clothing sleeveless bell-shaped, borrowed from England at the end of the 18th century.

Some wool from a black sheep

Piece, piece, piece of something

Cloak, women outerwear

Bunch sticking out strand

Long cloak in the middle ages

A strand of hair

Wide cape "bell"

Black sheep income

Sheared off the black sheep

A bunch of torn hair

Hunting dog breed

The unit of measure for the wool of a black sheep

Curl, knocked out of the head of hair

Portion of hair pulled out

Torn tuft of wool

Snippet

Bribe from the black sheep

Scrap, flap

Patch of earth

Piece of Torn Wool

A strand of a black sheep

Protruding strand

Ripped out of my hair

Tuft of wool

Torn out bundle

Bad sheep wool measure

Broken curl

Lock of hair

From the black sheep and it's valuable

Black Sheep Bundle

Some wool from the black sheep

Torn piece of cloth

Ragged Flap

Minimum wool from a black sheep

Curl after a fight

Protruding tuft of wool

A strand of hair

... "Strand" of sheep's wool

Uncombed strand

... "Bribes" from the black sheep

... "Flap" ripped out of the heap

Protruding strand

Bunch sticking out strand

A scrap, a flap, a torn piece of something

... "Bribes" from the black sheep

... "Flap" ripped out of the heap

... "Even wool from a black sheep ..."

Sleeveless bell-shaped outerwear for women borrowed from England at the end of the 18th century

Scrappy

M. shreds, a piece, a part torn out or separated from which, a bunch. A clump of hay, straw, wool, tow: a torn clump of clothing. To pull a clok from someone else's side, not to conceive with your own. he has a good fellow. Not a large piece of paper, but drags it to court, that is, paper. Either a shred of sleep, or a pitchfork to the side. Crochet nose, crochet beard. A piece of land, a small plot. Snow fells in shreds, flakes. Kloki, onomatopoeic golk, hum, dull, abrupt sound; catfish bait projectile, canine. Scraps pl. arch. bog bumps, hummock peat, rootstocks. Scraps Wed ryaz. cotton, flakes, cotton. Shreds, shreds arch. a mixed forest in a warm, hummocky swamp. Scattered, attributed to scraps. Scattered, clumpy, consisting of or abundant in scraps. Scrappy tree, head. Clogs the property is clumpy. Blocked VM. clumpy, clumpy, to a lesser extent. Lumpiness w. clumpy property. To rattle or gurgle what, to tear or whip in shreds, to ruffle; crumple or dump to shreds; to make a mess. shreds and rolls, and strokes and rolls, tongue. Rip money, wind, litter. To tangle hair, to walk around uncombed. Picking a catfish, catching a bite (bubbling? Bubbling?), On a golk: when running in the water, a fisherman throws a fishtail with a frog or a spoon, and from time to time, to lure a catfish, hitting a bucket or a cup on the water, like a catfish playing in clear weather ... -sya, they suffer. and return. within the meaning of. Shredded Wed lasts. shred about. action by verb. Klochba, the same, in meaning. catching catfish on a shred. Shreds, shreds or shreds related. Klochun m. -Nya j. who shreds something. Klochen m. Honeycomb moth, honeycomb aphid, in hives; blizzard; it eats the combs and exterminates the bees. Bubbling, worrying with noise, bubbling, boiling, whipping up foam and with a hum. The bubbling cf. bubble m. sost. by verb. Bird bubble, see goose. Bubbly, often bubbling; * restless, anxious, grumpy. Klokotun, -tusha, a bubbly person, restlessly active. Kloktat south. perm. about the brood hen: kvoktat; moan, groan about a person. Klokusha sib. molok, duck Anas glocitans. Kloktunya, cl (v) oktusha, kvochka, hen, parusha, kokosh; or rather: a chicken that has hatched and leads. Bubble w. holy tree, blue ash, Melia azedarach