не занимать

• НЕ ЗАНИМАТЬ кому чего or где кого-чего coll; НЕ ЗАНИМАТЬ СТАТЬ substand

[VP; infin only; quantit subj-compl with быть; subj/ gen: usu. abstr (var. with кому чего), concr or, less often, human (var. with где кого-чего; usu. pres]

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⇒ s.o. possesses a generous amount of some quality (more often a positive one), in some place there is more than a sufficient quantity of some thing or of people of a certain group (profession etc):

- X-a Y-y не занимать{{}}≈ Y has plenty of X;

- Y is not lacking in (not short on) X;

- you can't deny Y his X;

- there's no disputing Y's X;

|| в месте Y Х-ов не занимать{{}}≈ there are plenty (there is no lack) of Xs in place Y;

- there are all kinds of Xs in place Y.

     ♦ Лукерья опять усмехнулась и сказала: "Да уж чего-чего, а красоты твоей невестушке не занимать" (Абрамов 1). Lukerya grinned again and said, "Yes, there's one thing you can't deny your daughter-in-law, and that's beauty" (1a).