Значение слова "Л170" найдено в 1 источнике

Л170

найдено в "Большом русско-английском фразеологическом словаре"
ИДТЙ/ПОЙТИ (УЙТИ) В ЛЮДИ obsVP, subj: human to leave one's home in search of a job ( usu. working for s.o. on whose premises one can reside)
X пошёл в люди = X left home to earn his living
X went out to work as a live-in hired hand (as a live-in domestic etc).
Двенадцати лет бабка пошла в люди, была прислугой, нянчила детей, потом стала прачкой (Кузнецов 1). At the age of twelve my grandmother went out to work, she looked after other people's children, worked as a domestic servant and then became a washerwoman (1b).


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