My main pages are at the Russian and English Wikis: w:ru:Участник:CopperKettle and w:en:User:CopperKettle . At Wikisource: s:User:CopperKettle . At Stack Exchange: CopperKettle . At Multitran: CopperKettle . At Lang-8: CopperKettle
My name is Артём .
Born on the 8th of May , 1978 .
Useful links
Nips and tucks
Translation terminology
Translation literature
Grammar
Etymology
Definite and indefinite
Started:
Flieringa ring
B-drinker
bitzer - a mongrel dog (Australian)
home and hosed - australian phrase, from "A Cry in the Dark" (1988 movie); see "home and dry "
buff out - from "Planes, trains and automobiles", a comedy
stick by - from "The Life of Emile Zola", 1938 movie
pip to the post - from "Evil", a 2003 movie
that's wassup - from "Inside Man" by Spike Lee
carrying-on , from "The Last Picture Show" (1971)
branch water , from "Gettysburg", 1993
capital goods
jive-ass - from "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010)
arseholed - "Withnail and I", 1987
down bubble - "Run Silent Run Deep" 1958 - /29.07.2012
TBT = Target Bearing Transmitter, ditto, 1958
masked facies - "The Savages" 2007
low on the totem pole - "Martian Child" 2007
dinged-up - "The Right Stuff" 1983
to ding up - do. , 1983
pudknocker - do.
articular facet - reading the "sternum" at wiki
cross dowel - как по-русски?
hold cheap - "From the Dark Tower" by Countee Cullen
milling cutter , 5aug12
empire waist - "Miller's Crossing" (1990): schmatte -> quotation search
lay odds
kerfing - prompted by a chat with DCDuring
jointer plane - фуганок
locus poenitentiae - "The Paper Chase" (1973) - 12 08 2012
knight of the post - From Hudibras (1663)
moving violation
Seville orange - "Much Ado About Nothing" (1599) - 21 09 2012
rabato - do., 24 09 2012
root and branch - 27 09 2012
wit-cracker - Much Ado - 28 09 2012
tirocinium - through looking for quotations for "giddy" - 28 09 2012
turn the scale - W S Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence" - 06 10 2012
cocopan - was listening to "Awaye!" at ABC Radio, heard "opencast mining" -> Wikipedia: "Big Hole" article - a caption for an image. 06 10 2012
PRMS
cut a figure - WSMaugh. - 11 10 2012
a Roland for an Oliver - do., - 13 10 2012
environmental audit - 13 10 2012
sans gêne - 14 10 2012
take in bad part - 14 10 2012
antiscalant - 17 10 2012
stump speech - The Economist - 17 10 2012
Mother Hubbard - MS ch 49 - 18 10 2012
fall to one's lot - MS ch 50 - 18 10 2012
natural wastage - 20 10 2012
there is reason in the roasting of eggs - 21 10 2012
proving ground - 25 10 2012
caubeen - 28 10 2012
heave in sight - 31 10 2012
bargaining chip - 02 11 2012 - the Economist
off-gassing - 02 11 2012 - reading Silicate mineral paint
shot through with - 02 11 2012
residual power - 11 11 2012
call time (on smth) - 27 11 2012, from a malapropism in Telemachus, Friend
wig block - 29 11 2012, Moby Dick
pitch upon - 29 11 2012, Moby Dick
to the end of the chapter - 02 12 2012, do.
unrecking - 05 12 2012, MD ch 36
hand over hand - 05 12 2012, MD ch 40
money mule - 10 12 2012, news
move the needle - 22 12 2012, news
make fast - 30 12 2012, J Conrad
stemhead - 30 12 2012, do.
twopenny-halfpenny - 30 12 2012, do.
bear in upon - 30 12 2012, do.
blow upon - 07 01 2013, "Oliver!" (1968)
up a gum tree - 08 01 2013, do.
maintopman - 08 01 2013, Billy Budd (1962)
rodbuster - 12 01 2013, reading w:Rebar
handsome is as handsome does - listening to "David Copperfield"
rabbit on - 01 02 2013, "The Castle" (1997)
slug it out - 06 02 2013, BBC Radio, report on Syrian war
take a flyer - 06 02 2013, O. Henry, Man About Town
straw in the wind - 11 02 2013, BBC Radio, discussion of Pope's resignation
come to time - 15 02 2013, O Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
cry up - 20 02 2013, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer
make shift - 21 02 2013, do.
rallying point - 05 03 2013, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
slur over - 29 03 2013, Sons and Lovers
rip along - 31 03 2013, do.
lerky - 02 04 2013, do.
on the club - 06 04 2013, do.; DCDuring
gilliver - 06 04 2013, do.
by a long chalk - 06 04 2013, do.; ch 6
milk churn - 06 04 2013, do.; ch. 7
in high feather - 07 04 2013, do.
roisterously - 08 04 2013, do.
scrattle \ scrattling - 09 04 2013, do.
palletizer - 24 04 2013, news on a BASF factory
netback - 27 04 2013, oilpatch learning curve
univocity - 17 05 2013, combing the web for clinical trials jargon
superplasticizer - 20 05 2013, translating a news abt. a synthanol plant
postdeterminer - 10 06 2013, Quirk's Comprehensive Grammar, 1985
regurge - 04 07 2013, Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, 1870
romp home - 17 08 2013, from a news report
antichresis - 21 08 2013, legal learning curve (collateral, pledges etc.)
on a kick - 27 09 2013, reading the news
turn up trumps - 06 10 2013, forums
spieler - 12 10 2013, Tiger Bay (1959)
peptize - 24 10 2013, Petrochemistry: aslphaltenes and resins
pound a beat - 27 10 2013, Cape Fear (1962)
hoonish - 11 12 2013, Leunig at ABC Radio
in the same breath - 13 02 2014, BBC: Mathematics: Why the brain sees maths as beauty
supplementive clause - 22 02 2014, grammar readings
have legs - 16 03 2014, BBC, Tweets from Crimea
scotobiology - 14 06 2014, reading abt. genetic linkage etc.
vitrector - 18 07 2014, reading on vitrectomy
out of gear - 24 07 2014, Dickens's "Hard Times", ch 11
hastilude - 29 08 2014, via passage of arms in a Father Brown story by Ch.
passage of arms - 29 08 2014, Chesterton, "The Man With Two Beards"
Pandean pipes - 30 08 2014, William Henley, "Notes on the Firth" (1875)
immunoproteasome - 26 09 2014, reading Science Daily
back answer - 04 10 2014, William Henley, "Bus Driver" (1901)
To start
Phraseology
Find quotes, learn
Desi-Pom relics
fillip - "give a fillip" widely used in Hindi sources but seems to have faded away from the British ones
clean chit , to give a clean chit
"to float a tender "
"cynosure of all eyes" - in Indian press; nice expression
Indian English
"past over one year", "last over one year" : "The committee finds that the post of chairman CPCB has been lying vacant for the last over one year and additional charge given to a senior officer of MoEF."
"do the needful"
hydel = hydroelectric
Technology-affected words
Hard words
Collocation
In demand with the consumer \\ not "by"
"Construction on the plant began in" (not only "of the plant" as in Russian)