he was dunned on all sides - со всех сторон его осаждали кредиторы
• The IRS dunned the corporation for $6.3 million in back tax and penalties.
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He claimed he would rather go to prison than continue being dunned by the taxman.
dun sb for sth »One of his jobs was dunning customers for bills.
• ___ and Bradstreet
• ___ Laoghaire (borough in County Dublin)
• Ask for loaned money
• Ask payment
• Badger for bucks
• Beset for a debt
• Bradstreet partner
• Bradstreet's business partner
• Brownish gray
• Bug about bills
• Bug for payment
• Clayey color
• Creditor's demand
• Dark grayish brown
• Dark horse
• Demand for payment
• Demand payment
• Demand payment from
• Demand payment of
• Demand payment repeatedly
• Demand persistently
• Demand repeatedly
• Dull brown
• Dull brown hue
• Dull color
• Dull shade
• Dull-colored
• Equine hue
• Exact payment from
• Gloomy
• Grayish brown
• Grayish shade
• Grey horse
• Harass for payment
• Horse color
• Horse hue
• Horse of a different color
• Hound
• Hound for bucks?
• Hound for money
• Hound for payment
• Hound over a debt
• Hue for a horse
• Importune
• Importune for payment
• Insist on payment from
• Make demands of
• Mr. Bradstreet's partner
• Pester
• Pester about payment
• Pester for money due
• Pester for payment
• Pester till paid
• Pester, in a way
• Petition, in a way
• Plague for payment
• Press for payment
• Pursue a debtor
• Pursue, as a deadbeat
• Request payment
• Seek payment
• Torment
• Horse of a dull brownish gray color
• A color varying around light grayish brown
to dun smb. out of his money вымога́ть де́ньги
1. {dʌn} n
1. серовато-коричневый цвет
2. лошадь мышастой масти
3. рыб. искусственная серая мушка
2. {dʌn} a
1. 1) серовато-коричневый; мышиного цвета
2) мышастый (о масти)
2. поэт. тёмный, сумрачный
3. {dʌn} v
окрашивать в серовато-коричневый цвет
II1. {dʌn} n
1. назойливый кредитор
2. настойчивое требование уплаты долга
2. {dʌn} v
1) настойчиво требовать уплаты долга; напоминать (письмом) об уплате долга
he was ~ned on all sides - со всех сторон его осаждали кредиторы
2) надоедать; докучать
to dun smb. for payment — требовать оплаты
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