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strings (Lavrov); calling in favors or chits (Lavrov) | |||
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profitable connections; the old boy network (Lavrov); clientelism (Bullfinch); cronyism (Hand Grenade); thieves' cant; thieves' Latin; wasta (scherfas); clout (e.g. "we need a man with a bit of clout" – "нам нужен человек с блатом" Рина Грант); thieves’ cant; the old boy network (приобретается связями внутри сословия - например, среди выпускников одного частного колледжа, членов гольф-клуба и т.д.) | |||
thieves' cant; thieves' Latin | |||
drag; blind gun (pol_evy); suction (She has a lot of suction with the boss Taras) | |||
protection; influence | |||
crime | |||
inside track (m_rakova) | |||
pull; people in the right places (Victorian); old-boy network (из работы З. Трофимовой "Словарь новых слов и значений в английском языке" I. Havkin); calling in favors or chits (Его взяли на работу по блату. He got the job through the old boy network. Он устроил своего сынка в институт по блату. He got his fair-haired boy into the institute by pulling strings.; знакомство, связи connections or influence used to gain unfair advantage); connections | |||
crime | |||
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bog; marsh; swamp; marshland; morass; slough; mire | |||
Russian thesaurus | |||
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болото |
Блат : 56 phrases in 7 subjects |
American usage, not spelling | 3 |
Australian | 1 |
General | 28 |
Idiomatic | 6 |
Informal | 9 |
Makarov | 7 |
Slang | 2 |