встать на дыбы

• НА ДЫБЫ{{}}

[PrepP; Invar]

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1. стать, встать, подняться, поднять коня и т.п. [adv]

⇒ (used in refer, to an animal, often a horse) (to rise up, go up, make a horse go up etc) on one's or its back legs, with the forelegs lifted up and the body in a vertical position:

- X встал на дыбы{{}}≈ X stood (up) on its hind legs;

- [of a horse only] X reared (up);

|| Y поднял коня{{}}встать на дыбы ≈ person Y reared his horse.

     ♦ Помню только: рейс наш сопровождался тем, что вдоль дороги все собаки вставали на дыбы (Олеша 4). Still I do remember one thing, but only that: all the dogs stood up on their hind legs as we roared past them (4a).

2. стать, встать, подняться и т.п. встать на дыбы [adv]

⇒ (of an object that is supposed to be positioned along a horizontal plane, as a wagon, car, or raft) (to end up etc) in a vertical position with one end at the bottom and the other at the top:

- X встал на дыбы{{}}≈ X got upended;

- X ended up tipped straight up in the air;

- X got tipped up on its end.

3. Also: СТАНОВИТЬСЯ/СТАТЬ <ВСТАВАТЬ/ВСТАТЬ и т.п.> НА ДЫБЫ [subj-compl with copula or VP; subj: human, collect, or, rare, abstr]

⇒ to protest sharply:

- X встал на дыбы{{}}≈ [of a person] X put up a fight;

- X bristled;

- X kicked up a fuss;

- [of s.o.'s pride etc] X reared up.

     ♦ Значит, соросили немцы листовки, где упоминали Гамсуна, одна такая листовка попалась Гале, и она показала её Нине: смотри, мол, каков твой Гамсун... Нина, конечно, на дыбы: не может этого быть... (Рыбаков 1). So, the Germans had dropped these leaflets, which mentioned Hamsun, Galya got hold of one of them and showed it to Nina, as if to say, look at this Hamsun of yours! Nina, of course, bristled, it couldn't be true (1a).

     ♦ Базаров побледнел при одной этой мысли; вся его гордость так и поднялась на дыбы (Тургенев 2). Bazarov paled at the very thought; all his pride reared up within him (2c).