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⇒ have one's ducks in a row; get one's ducks lined up |
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привести в порядок свои дела (I'm trying to get my ducks in a row before I go to Europe. • County Board Chairman Jeff Bohm said officials will still apply "for every grant on this side of the Mississippi, too," but added getting all those financial ducks in a row might take a while.); навести порядок в делах (The company's owner has given his managers a few days to get their ducks in a row. Olga Fomicheva); привести всё в порядок (We wanted to have our ducks in a row before we started publicizing the project.); организовать (Tanya Gesse); подготовиться (The Fairbanks area mostly has its ducks in a row as commercial marijuana permitting is set to begin early next year. mykhailo); приводить дела в порядок (Toblerone); чётко всё распланировать (В.И.Макаров); навести порядок в своих делах (mykhailo) |
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порешать все вопросы (4uzhoj) |
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расставить кегли перед первым ударом шара |
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проработать факты, детали до начала какого-либо проекта (Сев. Амер. Kovrigin) |
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to take care of one's duties and responsibilities, to organize one's affairs (Get one's ducks in a row and have one's ducks in a row are American idioms, the origin of these phrases is murky. One possible origin is a lawn bowling game that was popular in the 1700s, which involved setting up duck pins, obviously, in a row. Another possible inspiration for the term get one's ducks in a row is the way in which tin ducks are lined up in a shooting gallery. A third possibility comes from actual ducks and the way in which ducklings line up when following their mothers. At this time, the earliest found reference to ducks in a row, meaning to organize one's affairs, comes from The Plaindealer in 1889.  grammarist.com) |
