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РАСПУСКАТЬ/РАСПУСТИТЬ СЛЮНИ highly coll VP subj: human

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).