одиннадцатым номером

• НА ОДИННАДЦАТОМ НОМЕРЕ добираться, передвигаться и т. п.; ОДИННАДЦАТЫМ НОМЕРОМ both coll, humor

[PrepP or NPins(rum; these forms only; adv; fixed WO]

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⇒ (to get, go somewhere) on foot:

- (on) one's (own two) feet (pins);

- (on) one's own two legs;

- under one's own power (steam);

- hoof (foot) it;

- [in limited contexts] on (by) shanks' mare.

     ♦ "Мамаша, - спросил Садчиков лифтершу, - а у вас к-кабина вниз ходит?" - "Еще чего! - ответила лифтерша. - ...Тольковверх, а оттеда [ungrammat = оттуда] - одиннадцатым номером" (Семенов 1). "Dearie," said Sadchikov to the lift woman, "does your lift go down from here?" "Not on yer life!" replied the lift woman. "...Only up. Yer comes down on yer feet" (1a).

     ♦ ...Лукашину вдруг стало обидно за [уполномоченного райкома] Ганичева... Заем, налоги, хлебозаготовки, лес - все уполномоченный! Тащись к дьяволу на кулички. В дождь, в мороз, в бездорожье. И хорошо бы на подводе, на машине, а то ведь и пехом, на одиннадцатом номере (Абрамов 1)...Suddenly Lukashin felt sorry for [the District Committee representative] Ganichev...Ganichev had to do it all. the Loan, the taxes, the grain procurements, the timber. He had to go to all sorts of godforsaken places. In the rain, in the cold, and when the roads were impassable. It wouldn't have been so bad if he had a cart or a car, but all he had were his own two pins (1a).