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The guy seems to have swallowed the dictionary — Этот парень, кажется, все слова знает
Новый англо-русский словарь современной разговорной лексики. - М.:«Русский язык-Медиа» . Глазунов С.А. . 2003.
The guy seems to have swallowed the dictionary — Этот парень, кажется, все слова знает
Новый англо-русский словарь современной разговорной лексики. - М.:«Русский язык-Медиа» . Глазунов С.А. . 2003.
swallow the dictionary — tv. to acquire an enormous vocabulary. (Usually in the past tense.) □ My uncle says I’ve swallowed the dictionary. That’s because I know so many big words. □ Did you just go to college to swallow the dictionary? … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
Swallow, Lincolnshire — Swallow is a small village in Lincolnshire, on the A46 road just northeast of Caistor. The village has a small war memorial. History The name Swallow has been variously written as Sualan ( Domesday Book ), Suawa, Swalwe and Swalewe (all twelfth… … Wikipedia
The Young Man and the Swallow — (which also has the Victorian title of The spendthrift and the swallow ) is one of Aesop s Fables and is numbered 169 in the Perry Index. It is associated with the ancient proverb One swallow doesn t make a summer . The Fable A woodcut from the… … Wikipedia
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Formation and evolution of the Solar System — Artist s conception of a protoplanetary disk The formation and evolution of the Solar System is estimated to have begun 4.568 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud … Wikipedia
CREATION AND COSMOGONY IN THE BIBLE — The Hebrew Bible commences with a majestic cosmological account of the genesis of the universe. According to Genesis 1:1–2:4a (the P account according to the documentary hypothesis), God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day … Encyclopedia of Judaism
USS Swallow (AMS-36) — For other ships of the same name, see USS Swallow. Career (United States) … Wikipedia
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USS Swallow (AM-65) — was an Auk class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. Swallow was the second of three U.S. Navy ships named after the swallow, which is any … Wikipedia