и нашим и вашим

• И НАШИМ И ВАШИМ служить, угождать и т. п. coll, disapprov

[NPdJ(; indir obj or subj-compl with быть (subj: human), pres or fut; fixed WO]

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⇒ (to serve, try to please etc) two different sides at the same time (in refer, to a person who, for selfish, mercenary reasons or from a lack of principles, is trying to oblige two people, groups etc that have different opinions, views, agendas):

- X служит и нашим и вашим{{}}≈ X serves two masters;

- X works for both sides;

- X works both sides of the street;

- X has a foot in both camps;

- X butters his bread on both sides;

- X runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds.

     ♦ "Что же, расстреливаешь братов [ungrammat = братьев]? Обвернулся?.. Вотты какой..." - Он, близко придвинувшись к Григорию, шепнул: "И нашим и вашим служишь? Кто больше даст?" (Шолохов 3). "So you're shooting your brothers? You've changed sides?...That's the kind of man you are." He stepped up close to Grigory and whispered, "Serving two masters? The highest bidder, eh?" (3a).

     ♦ [Белоботников:] И нарядчику не доверяйте, он и нашим и вашим (Солженицын 8). [В.:] And don't trust that work allocator. ...He works for both sides (8a).

     ♦ "...Буду опять его [журнал] издавать и непременно в либеральном и атеистическом направлении, с социалистическим оттенком, с маленьким даже лоском социализма, но держа ухо востро, то есть, в сущности, держа нашим и вашим и отводя глаза дуракам" (Достоевский 1). " ..I will go on publishing it [the journal], most certainly with a liberal and atheistic slant, with a socialistic tinge, with even a little gloss of socialism, but with my ears open, that is, essentially, running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, and pulling the wool over the fools' eyes" (1a).