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WHISTLE

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whistle I. verb A. intranzitiv

(despre oameni, păsări, o locomotivă etc.) a fluiera; a chiui; a şuiera;

(fam.) you may whistle for it poţi s-aştepţi mult şi bine; pune-ţi pofta-n cui;

to have smith. for the whistling a căpăta ceva foarte uşor;

to go whistle a) a fi refuzat, a căpăta un refuz; a se linge pe bot; b) a-şi pierde vremea (degeaba), a tăia câinilor frunză;

(fam.) to whistle off a o şterge, a spăla putina.

whistle I. verb B. tranzitiv

a fluiera (pe cineva, o melodie etc.).

whistle II. substantiv

1. fluier;

to pay (too dear) for one's whistle a plăti scump pentru distracţie.

2. fluierat; fluierătură; şuierat; chiot;

at smb.'s whistle la prima chemare a cuiva;

to dance after / to smb.'s whistle a juca în struna cuiva, a juca după cum îi cântă cineva.

3. (fam.) gât(lej), beregată;

(fam.) to wet one's whistle a-şi uda gât(lej)ul, a trage o duşcă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Again he made up his mouth to whistle, and again he didn't whistle, but sat looking at the horse's ears.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

‘I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in your sleep?’

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

Holmes gave a whistle of surprise.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Inspector said nothing, but, stepping to the door, he blew his whistle.

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

I know so much already that if you go one inch off the straight, I’ll blow this police whistle from my window and the affair goes out of my hands forever.

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

Then the son sat down on the fox’s tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Just then the whistle blew, and the train moved off.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Belcher whistled between his teeth.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They spoke together for a little, and though none of them started, or raised his voice, or so much as whistled, it was plain enough that Dr. Livesey had communicated my request, for the next thing that I heard was the captain giving an order to Job Anderson, and all hands were piped on deck.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The socman sprang back, looking to left and to right for some stick or stone which might serve him for weapon; but finding none, he turned and ran at the top of his speed for the house, blowing the while upon a shrill whistle.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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