подобру да поздорову

• ПОДОБРУ-ПОЗДОРОВУ <ПОДОБРУ ДА ПОЗДОРОВУ> coll

[AdvP; these forms only; adv; fixed WO]

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1. жить, поживать, добраться куда и т.п. подобру да поздорову obs (to live, be living, make one's way to some place etc) without problems or difficulties:

- (just <perfectly>) fine;

- [in refer, to how a person is doing at a given moment only](be) quite well;

- [in refer, to traveling only](get somewhere) safe and sound (without mishap).

2. уйти, убраться подобру да поздорову (to leave some place, go away) voluntarily and at a prudent time, while the situation is still calm (before a scandal erupts, sth. dangerous happens, or one is forced to leave):

- while the going (the getting) is good;

- while there's still time;

- while one is still in one piece;

- before ift too late.

     ♦ [Скотинин:] Да эдак и до меня доберутся... Уберусь же я отсюда подобру-поздорову (Фонвизин 1). [S.:] If they'll keep this up they'll get to me Also: ...I'd better get out of here while the going's good (1a).

     ♦ (Кречинский в глубокой задумчивости водит пальцем туда и сюда и произносит неясные слова. Расплюев следит за ним.) [Расплюев:] Уберусь я от него подобру-поздорову... (Сухово-Кобылин 2). (Krechinsky deep in thought wags his index finger and mutters to himself, Raspluyev watching.) [R.:] I better beat it while there's still time and I'm still in one piece (2a).

     ♦ Многих, которые не успели умереть, выгнали за неблагонадёжность, других отдали под суд; самые счастливые были те, которые... убрались подобру да поздорову в благоприобретенные углы (Гончаров 1). Many of those who had survived were dismissed as unreliable, others had been brought to trial; the luckiest were those who...retired, before it was too late, to their well-feathered nests (1b).