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Fall for someone like ninepins - «падать штабелями» перед кем-л.; невозможность устоять перед соблазном Succumb very willingly to someone's charms: Kate is so beautiful and charming — men fall for her like ninepins. Go down/Drop/Fall like ninepins (Br old-fashioned) «сыпаться» один за другим (заболевать, гибнуть и т.д.); мрут как мухи Become i l l or damaged; be killed or destroyed rapidly, one after the other; topple or succumb in large numbers. Ninepins is a game in which you try to make bottle-shaped objects fall by rolling a ball at them: We may have to close the hospital because the medical staff is going down like ninepins with the flu bug that's going around. Long nine (Am sl) - дешевая сигара Long-nines (Br) - длинная глиняная трубка Neat/Nice as ninepence - чистенький, аккуратный; все блестит; с иголочки The earliest known recorded form of the phrase is "as neat as ninepence". The first citation of that is in James Howell's "English Proverbs", 1659: "As fine as fippence, as neat as nine pence." For it to appear in a list of sayings viewed as proverbial it must have been in existence for some time before 1659. There was a ninepence coin in circulation in the 16th and 17th centuries, although there was nothing especially neat or nice about it. The rhyming style of that citation suggests that the "neat" and "nice" were chosen just for that reason: Her coat was pretty old but neat as ninepence. Nightmare and her nine-fold - Мара и её девять сестёр; ночные призраки (Мара - мифическое злое существо, 96