(b) all professional tackle -- when a player in rugby or american football tackles another player, he knocks the other guy to the ground (in other sports like hockey a tackle is an attempt to take away the puck) intercepting his attack and taking away the ball, if he succeeds.
..mm I believe "tackling" is also used as a term in wrestling, where it means sth like перевод в партер, т.е. сбивание из борьбы стоя в борьбу лежа, although my memory of this is rather vague.
(c) "Eating scrap iron for breakfast", I hope, should be clear enough (and it's an old metaphor - you might remember one of the Wooster's aunts who ate nails for breakfast and killed rats with her bare teeth in Wodehouse novels)
Тут особо буквальничать ни к чему. (Это была) кошачья версия (образ некоего агрессивного бугая-спортсмена, в худшем случае взять полузащитника из регби), выглядевшего как будто он ел металолом на закуску. К сожалению, я плохо знаю спорт, чтобы подобрать удачный русский аналог. Может, хоккей?
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Date: 2012-05-28 06:29 pm (UTC)(b) all professional tackle -- when a player in rugby or american football tackles another player, he knocks the other guy to the ground (in other sports like hockey a tackle is an attempt to take away the puck) intercepting his attack and taking away the ball, if he succeeds.
..mm I believe "tackling" is also used as a term in wrestling, where it means sth like перевод в партер, т.е. сбивание из борьбы стоя в борьбу лежа, although my memory of this is rather vague.
(c) "Eating scrap iron for breakfast", I hope, should be clear enough (and it's an old metaphor - you might remember one of the Wooster's aunts who ate nails for breakfast and killed rats with her bare teeth in Wodehouse novels)
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Date: 2012-05-28 09:56 pm (UTC)(Это была) кошачья версия (образ некоего агрессивного бугая-спортсмена, в худшем случае взять полузащитника из регби), выглядевшего как будто он ел металолом на закуску.
К сожалению, я плохо знаю спорт, чтобы подобрать удачный русский аналог. Может, хоккей?
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Date: 2012-05-29 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-29 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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