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Idiom(s) of the day: fallen angel
Variation(s):
My category (Russian-to-English translation): Положительная или отрицательная оценка (Positive or negative evaluation)
Explanation(s):
Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms, 2004 (CCDI):
If you refer to someone as a fallen angel, you mean that although they were once virtuous or successful, they are now wicked or unsuccessful.
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
1) An institution whose creditworthiness has declined considerably. 2) A security in the US market that has dropped below its original value; it may be sold for its increased yield
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
(in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim tradition) an angel who rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary v4.7:
Translation(s):
CCDI:
Падший ангел
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
1) падший ангел, злой дух, дьявол 2) падший ангел (о женщине)
высокодоходная облигация, потерявшая уровень рейтинга, приемлемый для инвесторов
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
Multitran (www.multitran.ru):
Люцифер; сатана
Multilex (www.multilex.ru):
Examples:
CCDI:
Without an away League win all season, Leeds United quickly became the fallen angel of the Premier League.
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
To him she appeared a very angel dropped from the sky, and all the more easy to get on with for being a fallen one. (S. Butler, ‘The Way of All Flesh’, ch. LXXI) — Ему она казалась ангелом, сошедшим с небес; и с ней тем легче было поладить, что ангел этот был падший.
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) v4.0:
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary v4.7:
British National Corpus (BNC), Mark Davies (http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/): fallen [angel], total 13
Frank Keating would write about sport with the wit and wonder of a fallen angel.
For a man to say that Galadriel was an angel, for instance, might then seem natural enough. Would she be a fallen angel? In a way the answer is "No", for certainly the elves play no part in Tolkien's War in Heaven, when Melkor is shut out. On the other hand Galadriel has been expelled from a kind of Heaven, the Deathless land of Valinor, and has been forbidden to return.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Mark Davies (http:// www.americancorpus.org/): fallen [angel], total 104
It is not enough to be on the side of the angels or to have good intentions. Hell is ruled by fallen angels and the path there is paved with good intentions.
But he was more drawn to "orphans" and "fallen angels" -- companies either too small for analysts to write a report about or too tarnished to merit a good one.
Oh, sure. I love fallen angels. American Telephone is the biggest and best of them -- Ma Bell at $23, down from a high of $60 not more than a year ago.
At more than six feet of lean, toned masculinity blessed with the face of a fallen angel, he could hardly help it.
Word was the Callus Grill was open to misfits, outcasts, runaways, bums, and all other manner of fallen angel. A sure place to get a good hot meal.
She looks like one sexy femme fatale, which is exactly what she plays in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. As fallen Angel Madison Lee, the 40-year-old Moore graces the screen for her first mainstream role in six years-since 1997's ill-received G.I. Jane.
Marlene Dietrich sang with the grace of a fallen angel.
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