какой там ...!

• КАКОЙ ТАМ <ТУТ>...! coll

[AdjP; modif; fixed WO]

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⇒ used to express disagreement with some statement or to correct one's own words (the part of the statement that is objected to or corrected is repeated):

- what do you mean,...?;

- (but) what am I (are you) saying (talking about)...?;

- [in limited contexts] how can you call it (him etc)...?;

- don't call it (him etc)...;

- some [NP]!

     ♦ "Кто же у нас будет платить такие бешеные деньги? Васюкинцы..." - "Какие там васюкинцы! Васюкинцы денег платить не будут. Они будут их по-лу-чать!" (Ильф и Петров 1). "And who do you think is going to pay that kind of money? The people of Vasyuki?" "What do you mean, the people of Vasyuki? The people of Vasyuki are not going to pay money, they're going to receive it" (1a).

     ♦ [Колесов:] Как свадьба? Где муж? [Маша:] Где, в том-то и дело!.. Сбежала я от него, Коля, прямо со свадьбы. [Колесов:] Как - со свадьбы? Почему? [Маша:] Да не свадьба была! Какая там свадьба. Неохота рассказывать (Вампилов 3). [К.:] How was the wedding? Where's your husband? [M.:] Where, that's just the point!...I ran away from him, Kolya, right at the wedding. [K.:] What do you mean, at the wedding? Why? [M.:] It wasn't a wedding! Don't call it a wedding. I don't feel like talking about it (3b).

     ♦ В вуз он и не пытался пойти, какой там вуз с его знаниями, кроме того - возраст (Залыгин 1). [context transl] He didn't even try for university-how could he with his knowledge? Besides, there was his age (1a).