help with (presumably) Russian phrase
Mara Sukholutskaya
msukholu at MAILCLERK.ECOK.EDU
Tue Jul 25 20:09:52 UTC 2006
NOt necessarily. Normali in Russian we say "Tseluyu ruchki", using plural.
Mara Sukholutskaya
>>> dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU 07/24/06 21:20 PM >>>
Then, it was probably "ruchku za khrabrost'! "
Sincerely,
Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Mara Sukholutskaya wrote:
> It probably means "I kiss your hands for courage". Probably addressed to a woman.
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> Mara Sukholutskaya
> >>> Stephen.Luttmann at UNCO.EDU 07/21/06 12:07 PM >>>
> A colleague of mine recalls his father using the phrase
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> "ruchki zakhrabros"
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> to mean something on the order of "you said a mouthful." He was curious
> as to its precise meaning, or whether he was remembering the phrase
> correctly, and I'm not sure my undergraduate Russian degree (now a
> quarter-century old and not much exercised thereafter) and my
> 50,000-word Smirnitski are entirely up to the challenge. Something
> about "little hands" and "mustering up one's courage," but that's about
> it. Does this ring a bell to anyone?
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> Thanks in advance--
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> Stephen Luttmann
> Music Librarian
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> University of Northern Colorado
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