на сносях

• НА СНОСЯХ <НА СНОСЕ obs> substand

[PrepP; these forms only; usu. subj-compl with быть (subj: human, female)]

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⇒ one is in the last month of pregnancy:

- X на сносях{{}}≈ X is almost <(just) about> due;

- X is near her time.

     ♦ "Вот у меня жена на сносях, так что ей, значит, так вот в трухлявом бараке дитю [ungrammat = дитя] пролетария и на свет выносить?.." (Максимов 3). "My wife here is near her time. I mean to say, she can't bring a proletarian kid into the world in some moldering old barracks, can she?" (3a).