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by turns of the indirect corkscrew (Logos66); by the backdoor (Ремедиос_П); circuitously | |||
around Robin Hood's barn (Interex) | |||
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sideway (тж. перен.); devious path (Anglophile); side-way; detour; roundabout; circumbendibus; circumvolution; round about way (также переносн. Kovrigin); back way; back-way; circuitous route (букв. и перен.: "he took a circuitous route to avoid the accident site"; "this is quite a circuitous route to achieve your goal!" Рина Грант); collateral hand; a roundabout way | |||
way round | |||
indirect route | |||
devious route | |||
bypath | |||
roundabout way | |||
loop road | |||
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indirection; devious paths | |||
oblique methods | |||
ambages | |||
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round | |||
sidewind |
окольными путями: 12 phrases in 5 subjects |
Diplomacy | 3 |
General | 2 |
Idiomatic | 3 |
Makarov | 2 |
Proverb | 2 |