tailor's [barber's] dummy - манекен портного [парикмахера]
he's nothing but a tailor's dummy - он всего-навсего безмозглый хлыщ /франт/
could you help me instead of sitting there like a stuffed dummy? - чем сидеть как чучело, помог бы лучше
these doors are dummies - это фальшивые двери
double dummy - игра с двумя «болванами»
dummy whist - вист с «болваном»
to be /to play/ dummy - играть (в карты) в качестве «болвана»
to give /to sell/ smb. the dummy - обвести кого-л. (в футболе)
dummy watch - игрушечные часы
dummy window - ложное окно
dummy cartridge - воен. учебный патрон
dummy gun - воен. макет орудия
dummy mine [position] - воен. ложная мина [позиция]
dummy charge - воен. холостой заряд
dummy variety - с.-х. мнимый сорт
dummy holder - фиктивный владелец
dummy shaft - горн. слепой ствол; гезенк
• 72% of the men in the group taking a dummy pill continued to lose hair.
• They had set up a series of dummy corporations to buy and sell 8,000 acres of useless New Mexico desert.
• They used dummy trades to create a false impression of a more active market than really existed.
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If you want costumes or makeup to look really good, you can put it on a dummy.
The display case was filled with test packages and dummies to simulate the presence of food products.
He created a dummy magazine to show to potential publishers.
»To meet their monthly targets, salespeople placed dummy orders from friendly customers, cancelling them later.
The agents set up dummy companies, acquire advanced computers, and then they quietly fold and go home, taking their hardware with them.