С-553

ПОД СТАТЬ coll PrepP Invar

1. \С-553 кому ( subj-compl with copula (subj: human or nonagreeing modif ) one is well-suited for s.o. with regard to certain qualities (skills, experience, personality etc)

X Y-y - \С-553 X is a good (perfect) match for Y

X is (just) right for Y X and Y are well (perfectly) matched.

Она и еще что-то думала вокруг этого, а вокруг этого оказался Мансуров-Курильский, человек, безусловно, бесталанный, но, в общем-то, не плохой и, следовательно, по всем статьям под стать ей самой... (Залыгин 1). Her thoughts turned around this question and lighted upon Mansurov-Kurilsky, a talentless man if ever there was one, but not a bad man, all in all, and therefore in every respect a good match for her (1a).

2. \С-553 чему ( subj-compl with copula ( subj: usu. abstr) or non-agreeing modif ) sth. corresponds with something else

X \С-553 Y-y = X matches Y

X jibes

is in keeping) with Y

X and Y agree X is as AdjP as Y.

Собачья погода была прямо под стать дяди-Митиному собачьему настроению (Аксёнов 10). The foul weather exactly matched Old Mitya's foul mood (10a).

Дни тянулись медленно, в химерах и воспоминаниях, в невесёлых, под стать погоде, думах о предстоящей жизни в лагере (Максимов 2). The days dragged slowly by, days spent in daydreams and memories, and in thoughts, cheerless as the weather, about the prospects of life in a prison camp (2a).

3. - кому-чему ( subj-compl with copula (subj: human or abstr

or nonagreeing modif ) a person (or thing) resembles another person (or thing)

X \С-553 Y-y = X is like (similar to) Y

X is similar (in nature) to Y.

...Отец (Сергея) когда-то был крупный работник, но так никуда и не вылез, мать - домашняя юристка с принципами и запросами, и он сам им под стать (Трифонов 3). ...His (Sergei's) father had once been an outstandingly able man

yet he had never made it to the top

his mother was a nonpracticing lawyer with principles and high standards - and Sergei was similar in nature to both of them (3a).

4. \С-553 кому ( subj-compl with быть« ( subj: infin)

often neg) it is fitting, decent (for s.o. to do sth. ): делать X Y-y не под стать = doing X does not befit (suit, become) Y it isn't right (appropriate, proper, suitable, seemly) for Y to do X.