на огонек

• НА ОГОНЕК к кому зайти, заглянуть, забежать coll

[PrepP; Invar; adv]

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⇒ (to call on s.o.) while passing by his home, having seen by his lighted window(s) that he is home (occas. may refer to one's calling on s.o. at his office after hours etc):

- X зашёл к Y-y на огонёк{{}}≈ X saw Y's light(s) <the light in Y's window> and dropped in (decided to drop in etc).

     ♦ ...[Михаил] хлопнул калиткой, топнул сапогами по мосткам... и первый раз не ползком, не на четвереньках, а как мужчина, с распрямленной спиной поднялся на крыльцо... Он сказал: "Шёл мимо - давай, думаю, на огонёк..." (Абрамов 1). Не [Mikhail] banged the gate, stamped his boots on the plank footpath...and for the first time went up to the porch, not crawling on all fours, but standing up straight like a man. ...He said, "I was just passing by and I saw the light in the window, so .." (1a).

     ♦ Вошел Григорий Мелехов в наглухо застёгнутой шинели, бурый от мороза, с осевшей на бровях и усах изморозью. "Я на огонек" (Шолохов 4). The man who entered was Grigory Melekhov, his greatcoat buttoned to the throat, his face ruddy from the cold, his brows and moustache rimed with frost. "I saw the light and decided to drop in" (4a).