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Перевод: sideline
[существительное] боковая линия; боковая линия игрового поля; боковая ветка; побочная работа; товары, не составляющие главный предмет торговли в данном магазине
Тезаурус:
- On the Isle of Axholme, where little wool was produced, hemp was the basis for a spinning and weaving industry, which Provided a useful sideline for the average peasant, and a basic livelihood for the poor.
- Sandie's true ambitions ran away from the desperate rat race and since then she had been content to dabble, treating her music as an entertaining sideline.
- As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline, outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions.
- Despite this dodgy sideline, the station renewed Jakki's contract after three months.
- Whether it was the unsavoury reputation of the government of Lloyd George; or whether it was the division in the party between the followers of Lloyd George and the followers of Asquith; or whether it was the aftermath of universal suffrage and the desire of the working man for a party which he could call his own - it now looked certain that the party division of the country would no longer lie between Liberal and Conservative but in a wider gulf between Conservative and Labour, with the Liberal Party on the sideline.
- As a sideline, to fill in time when the shop was devoid of customers, Tommy repaired umbrellas on a bench tucked away in the corner.
- The markets' obsession with credit ratings has spawned a sideline for investment banks: advising clients how to spruce up their presentations to the rating agencies.
- Two old sisters in Portsmouth kept shops side by side: the great-aunt running a coal shop where "you had to go in there with your pail, and they weighed the coal", with vegetables as a sideline, while "my gran she had a wee shop and she used to sell toffee apples."
- Luckily for the curious, this historical sideline can be followed up in a number of publications, both about individuals and institutions.
- The Achilles' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone.
- Then came the William IV public house, an old two-storied building noted for its sideline of hiring handcarts for tuppence an hour.
- In 1865, Richard Arkell started brewing, for corn millers often took up brewing as a sideline.
- But in the end, politics for many of them was a sideline, a diversion, a supplement.
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