на дармовщинку

• НА ДАРМОВЩИНУ <ДАРМОВЩИНКУ, ДАРОВЩИНУ, ДАРОВЩИНКУ> highly coll, often disapprov; НА ЧУЖАЧКА substand

[PrepP; these forms only; adv]

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⇒ (to get or do sth. for which payment is normally required) without spending any money, without cost to o.s.:

- free;

- for free;

- free of charge;

- for nothing;

- [in limited contexts] at s.o.'s (someone else's) expense;

- [with the NP implied by the context;

- usu. of food and/ or drinks](for) a free [NP];

- [when the translation of the idiom incorporates the Russian verb;

- usu. in refer, to the repeated or prolonged exploitation of s.o.'s hospitality] freeload.

     ♦ Рысс стакан за стаканом дул цинандали. Платили какие-то физики из Новосибирска, и барабанщик старался побыстрее на дармовщинку "поймать кайф" (Аксёнов 6). Ryss was drinking glass after glass of Tsinandali, a Georgian white wine. Some physicists from Novosibirsk were paying, and the drummer was trying to get high as quickly as possible at their expense (6a).

     ♦ Все, все были тут, критики тайные, насмешники, презиратели, все на дармовщинку сбежались... (Трифонов 1). All of them, all of these secret critics and scoffers were here. They had all come running for free drinks and a free meal (1a).