отрезанный ломоть

• ОТРЕЗАННЫЙ ЛОМОТЬ{{}}

[NP; sing only; subj-compl with copula (subj: human), pres or past; fixed WO]

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1. a person (usu. a grown-up son or, less often, daughter) who no longer lives with his family, who has become independent and does not require support:

- X - отрезанный ломоть as X is on his own;

- X is (has become) his own man (her own woman, his own master);

- X has left the nest;

- X has cut loose.

     ♦ "Что делать, Вася! Сын - отрезанный ломоть. Он что сокол: захотел - прилетел, захотел - улетел..." (Тургенев 2). "What can we do, Vasya! Our son's his own master now He's like a free bird of the skies: he wanted to come-came flying to us; wanted to go and flew away" (2e).

2. a person who has dissociated himself from his milieu, from his traditional way of life, from his usual activity:

- X - отрезанный ломоть{{}}≈ X is cut off (from his country <his milieu etc >);

- [in limited contexts] X is a lone wolf.

     ♦ ...В Одессе он [Бунин] застрял: не хотел сделаться эмигрантом, отрезанным ломтем; упрямо надеялся на чудо - на конец большевиков, погибель советской власти и на возвращение в Москву под звон кремлёвских колоколов (Катаев 3)...In Odessa he [Bunin] has stuck: he did not want to become an emigre, cut off from his country, he was stubbornly hoping for a miracle-for the Bolsheviks to be defeated, Soviet rule overthrown and his return to Moscow amid the triumphant ringing of the Kremlin bells (3a).