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GLOVE

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glove I. substantiv

1. mănuşă;

(despre haine etc.) to fit like a glove a se potrivi, a veni (cuiva) ca turnat;

to handle without gloves a umbla fără mănuşi cu, a trata fără menajamente;

to throw down the glove a arunca mănuşa, a provoca;

to take up the glove a primi / a accepta provocarea;

to be hand and glove with a) a fi (prieten) foarte intim cu; b) a fi de conivenţă/în cârdăşie, a fi înţeles/ complice cu;

to show the velvet glove a-şi ascunde ghearele, a face pe mâţa blândă;

to pull / to draw one’s gloves a-şi pune mănuşile;

to take off one’s gloves a-şi scoate mănuşile;

excuse my glove! iartă-mă că nu-mi scot mănuşa (se zice când se întinde mâna înmănuşată)

2. (şi boxing glove) mănuşă de box;

(fig.) to put on the gloves a se pregăti de box.

glove II. verb tranzitiv

a înmănuşa, a îmbrăca în mănuşi.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“My love, be silent,” said Mrs. Micawber, laying her brown glove on his hand.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He put his gloves on the chair, and he took the proofs, sheet by sheet, to copy them.

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

I know where Meg's glove is.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I will pick the glove up; but, certes, I shall abide what I have done unless he first crave my pardon for what he hath said and done.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! yes, gloves and every thing.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

His majesty presented me with fifty purses of two hundred sprugs a-piece, together with his picture at full length, which I put immediately into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt.

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

Would she take my gloves?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I touch Miss Shepherd's glove, and feel a thrill go up the right arm of my jacket, and come out at my hair.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I knew those gloves well, and I understood their message.

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

And this I swear upon the cross of my sword and upon the glove of my lady.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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