не находить себе места

• НЕ НАХОДИТЬ <НЕ МОЧЬ НАЙТИ> (СЕБЕ) МЕСТА (от чего) coll

[VP; subj: human]

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⇒ to be extremely worried, anxious, restless (often in fear for a loved one's safety, in anticipation of an important event etc):

- X не находил себе места (от волнения <тревоги и т. п.>) ≈ X was beside himself (with worry <anxiety etc>);

- X couldn't find any peace;

- X nearly went out of his mind (with worry etc);

- X couldn't rest for worry <worrying, fretting etc>.

     ♦ [Коля:] Ты что?! Мать места себе не находит... (Розов 2). [К.:] What do you think you're doing?! Mum's been beside herself with worry (2a).

     ♦ ...Места себе не нахожу оттого, что прожил не свою, а какую-то вроде бы чужую жизнь (Зиновьев 1). " .I can't find any peace because it seems that I have been living someone else's life, not my own" (1a).

     ♦ ...Когда была эта война, мама не находила себе места: отправят Генриха на Карельский перешеек... полезет в самое пекло и пропадет (Рыбаков 1). When that war was going on, mother nearly went out of her mind, they'll send him [Genrikh] to the Karelian [Isthmus], she said...he'll get into the thick of the fighting and get himself killed (1a).

     ♦ С этим [с преступлениями] всё кончено, они с Сударем не могли себе найти места от стыда и раскаяния, они даже думали прийти и покаяться, попросить, чтобы их простили... (Семенов 1). ...This [their criminal activity] was all over now, he and Squire could not rest for shame and repentance, they had even thought of coming and owning up, of begging to be pardoned... (1a).