до слез

• ДО СЛЕЗ{{}}

[PrepP; Invar; modif or adv (intensif)]

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1. to a very high degree:

- extremely;

- really;

|| кому обидно{{}}до слез ≈ s.o. is frustrated to the point of tears;

- s.o. is so upset <frustrated etc> he could cry;

- s.o. is so frustrated (annoyed etc) he could scream;

- [in limited contexts] s.o. could just cry (scream)!

|| обижаться{{}}до слез ≈ be offended to the point of tears;

- be deeply offended;

|| кому{{}}до слез хочется чего or что (с)делать ≈ s.o. desperately wants (to do) sth.;

- s.o. wants (to do) sth. so badly he can taste it;

- s.o. has a burning desire for sth. <to do sth.>;

|| кому{{}}до слез жаль кого{{}}≈ (seeing some person in such a state etc) is enough to make you want to cry;

- s.o. feels desperately (incredibly) sorry for some person;

- s.o. is so sorry for some person that he could cry (weep);

|| тронуть кого{{}}до слез ≈ move s.o. to tears;

|| до слез какой{{}}≈ extremely (ever so) [AdjP].

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     ♦ Когда мы, в блокадную зиму, пилили с ней [теткой] в паре дрова... она, пятидесятилетняя, точно так сердилась на меня, пятилетнего, как сейчас. Она обижалась на меня до слез в споре, кому в какую сторону тянуть... (Битов 1). During the winter of the blockade of Leningrad, when she [Auntie] and I were sawing wood together...she, fifty years old, lost her temper at me, a five-year-old, in exactly the same way as now She was offended to the point of tears by an argument about who was supposed to pull in which direction (1a).

     ♦ С близкого поля, которое растекалось по обе стороны дороги прямо от истока слободы, тянуло зацветающей гречихой. На душе у Петра Васильевича стало вдруг так мирно и благостно, что ему захотелось, до слез захотелось туда, в этот запах, в этот давным-давно забытый сквозной простор... (Максимов 3). From a nearby field which welled up at the edge of the settlement and flowed along both sides of the road there came a scent of buckwheat in flower Pyotr Vasilievich suddenly felt blissfully at peace, and wanted desperately to go in that direction-into that scent, into those long-forgotten boundless spaces... (3a)

     ♦ ...Ему все-таки до слёз жалко было князя Андрея, жалко было его гордости (Толстой 5). ...He could have wept, so sorry was he for Prince Andrei and his wounded pride (5a).

     ♦ Сцена эта может показаться очень натянутой, очень театральной, а между тем через двадцать шесть лет я тронут до слез, вспоминая ее... (Герцен 1). This scene may strike others as very affected and theatrical, and yet twenty-six years afterwards I am moved to tears as I recall it . (1a).

2. до слез смеяться, хохотать (to laugh) very hard:

- laugh until (till, so hard) one cries;

- laugh till tears flow (come);

- laugh till tears run down one's face (cheeks).

     ♦ Я иногда даже хохочу. И тот, в зеркале, хохочет. Я хохочу до слез. И тот, в зеркале, плачет (Олеша 3). Sometimes I even laugh. And the one in the mirror laughs I laugh until I cry. And the one in the mirror cries too (3a).