Usage examples of "старые девы" in Russian with translation to English

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Translations: all60 spinster30 old maid28 other translations2

Это просто очень скучные старые девы. They're just really bored spinsters.

Будем как две старые девы, слоняться по родительскому дому. We'll be like two old maids, rattling around the familial home.

Там обычно кишат вдовы и старые девы. It's usually crawling with spinsters and widows.

О, самые завидные невесты Сакраменто, или лучше сказать сексуальные старые девы Сакраменто? Ah, Sacramento's most eligible singles, or should I say, sexy spinsters of Sacramento?

Я бесполезная старая дева, гожусь только для помощи, это моя роль, и старые девы встают к завтраку. I'm a useless spinster, good at helping out, that is my role, and spinsters get up for breakfast.

Да она законченная старая дева. She's a spinster of the parish.

А я думал "Старая дева". I would have guessed Old Maid.

Она похожа на старую деву. She's like an old spinster.

"Вот ведь чудаковатая старая дева". "Isn't she a cranky old maid".

Старая дева, лысая, три черных кошки. Spinster, bald, three black cats.

Ты рассуждаешь, как старая дева. You sound like an old maid.

О, Энн, моя прекрасная старая дева. Oh, Ann, you beautiful spinster.

Чтобы не быть старой девой. To keep from being an old maid.

Нет, миссис Роланд, я старая дева. No, Mrs Roland, I am a spinster.

Шэрон, ты умрёшь старой девой. Sharon, you gonna die an old maid.

Что такого плохого остаться старой девой? What is the harm to be a spinster?

Что это со старой девой? What's with the old maid?

Всё лучше, чем быть старой девой. Better than the spinster.

Я не останусь старой девой. I ain't cut out to be no old maid.

Маленькая старая дева из Англии видела это. A little spinster from England has seen to that.

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