a silly sod

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"If somebody said I'm not playing him because of a personal situation with him, they are a silly sod who doesn't understand the game. I want to win so I have to play the best players for the team," Mourinho said.

Заранее спасибо,

Vyacheslav

sod n. v. adj. And just about any other use. Sod is a glorious word. Attached to any word or phrase it has the immediate effect of making it derogatory. Prime examples include "Sod off" (get lost), "sod you" (nearest US equivalent is probably "bite me"), "sod it" (damn/forget it), "old sod" (old git), etc, etc. Use at will - it has a friendly tone to it and is unlikely to get you into trouble. Were you to look in a proper dictionary, you'd discover that sod is also a lump of turf - I'm told that there is a road in Halifax (Yorkshire, not Nova Scotia) called Sod House Green.

Полезный ресурс http://english2american.com/dictionary/s.html

Особенно в словосочетании silly sod.

Заодно вот, кстати
bugger n. adj. v. Another superb multi-purpose Brit word. Buggery is sodomy but the word has far more uses than this. Calling someone a bugger is an inoffensive insult (in a similar way to git) and telling someone to bugger off is a friendlier alternative to the f-word. It can also be used as a stand-alone expletive in a similar way to bollocks - "Oh, bugger!"

Но, конечно же, все, как всегда, зависит от ситуации и тона.

Надпись на надгробной плите:
beneath this sod,
there lies another

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