распускать слюни

• РАСПУСКАТЬ/РАСПУСТИТЬ СЛЮНИ highly coll

[VP; subj: human]

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1. to be or begin crying:

- X распустил слюни{{}}≈ X started crying (blubbering, boohooing, bawling);

- X turned on the tears (the waterworks);

- X burst into tears.

     ♦ ...Я разревелся от злости... Когда Наталья Савишна увидала, что я распустил слюни, она тотчас же убежала... (Толстой 2) - I howled with rage. ...When Natalya Savishna saw that I was crying she immediately ran away (2b).

2. to complain about sth. in an annoying, self-pitying manner, displaying a lack of resolve to right the situation about which one is complaining etc:

- X распускает слюни{{}}≈ X starts (is) whining (whimpering, sniveling).

     ♦ Да ведь это пустяк, даже и неприятностью назвать нельзя, а ты уже и слюни распустил. It's no big deal - you can't even really call it trouble, and yet you're already whining.

3. to become excessively sentimental, exaggeratedly emotional about sth., thus producing an objectionable impression:

- X распускает слюни{{}}≈ X is getting mushy (gushy);

- [often in refer, to sexual attraction] X is starting to drool.

     ♦ "Пол-Фосфатки ее [Катю] любит и треть всего побережья, и даже на Улейконе я знаю нескольких парней, которые сразу же распускают слюни, как только речь заходит о ней" (Аксёнов 1). "Half of Phosphate loves her [Katya], and a third of the whole seaboard, and even in Uleikon I know a bunch of guys who start to drool as soon as you mention her" (1a).