CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR

Meaning of CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR in English

nice try but no cigar, good and close but not correct; almost but not entirely successful; good but incorrect guess

Explanatory English dictionary bed edition. Толковый словарь английского языка Редакция bed. 2012

CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR — ( informal , especially NAmE ) used to tell sb that their attempt or guess was almost but not quite …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR — expr AmE infml Close, but no cigar. Give it another try — Хорошо, но не совсем. Попытайся еще раз Close, but no …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики - Глазунов
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR — expr AmE infml Close, but no cigar. Give it another try — Хорошо, но не совсем. Попытайся еще раз Close, …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR — close but no cigar expr AmE infml Close, but no cigar. Give it another try Хорошо, но не совсем. Попытайся …
Англо-Русский новый словарь современного неформального английского языка
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR — Close, but no cigar. Give it another try — Хорошо, но не совсем. Попытайся еще раз Close, but no cigar …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современного неформального английского
NO
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CIGAR — cigarre. ~CASE: cigarriere. ~HOLDER: porta-cigarre, cigarriero
English interlingue dictionary
CIGAR — tustus
English-Visayan vocabulary
CIGAR — noun Etymology: Spanish ~ro Date: 1730 a small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CIGAR — Cylindrical roll of tobacco for smoking, consisting of cut tobacco filler formed in a binder leaf and with a wrapper …
Английский словарь Британика
NO
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CLOSE — I. ˈklōz verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English closen, from Old French clos-, stem of clore, from Latin claudere …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BUT — I. (ˈ)bət, usu -əd.+V conjunction Etymology: Middle English, conjunction & preposition, from Old English būtan, būte, conjunction & preposition, without, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CIGAR — noun also se·gar sə̇ˈgär, -gȧ(r sometimes ˈsiˌg-, chiefly substand ˈsēˌg- ( -s ) Etymology: Spanish cigarro, perhaps of Mayan origin; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CIGAR — (n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
Английский словарь Webster
CIGAR — ( n. ) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
NO — no 1 /noh/ , adv., adj., n., pl. noes, nos , v. adv. 1. (a negative used to express dissent, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CLOSE — — closable, closeable /kloh"zeuh beuhl/ , adj. — closely /klohs"lee/ , adv. — closeness /klohs"nis/ , n. v. /klohz/ ; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CIGAR — — cigarless , adj. — cigarlike , adj. /si gahr"/ , n. 1. a more or less cylindrical roll of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BUT — but 1 /but/ ; unstressed /beuht/ , conj. 1. on the contrary; yet: My brother went, but I did not. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CIGAR — n. large cylindrical roll of dried tobacco (for smoking)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
NO — I. ˈnō adverb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English nā, from ne not + ā always; akin to Old Norse …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CLOSE — I. ˈklōz verb ( closed ; clos·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French clos-, stem of clore, from Latin claudere …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CIGAR — noun Etymology: Spanish cigarro Date: 1730 : a small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CLOSE
Webster English vocab
CIGAR — noun a small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
Webster English vocab
BUT — noun a limit; a boundary. 2. but ·vt a thrust in fencing. 3. but ·vi ·see butt, ·v, and abut, …
Webster English vocab
CIGAR — ■ noun a cylinder of tobacco rolled in tobacco leaves for smoking. Phrases close but no ~ N. Amer. informal …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CLOSE — [close] vb closed ; clos.ing [ME, fr. OF clos-, stem of clore, fr. L claudere to shut, close; perh. akin …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CIGAR — [ci.gar] n [Sp cigarro] (1730): a small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CIGAR — cylindrical roll of tobacco for smoking, consisting of cut tobacco filler formed in a binder leaf and with a wrapper …
Britannica English vocabulary
CIGAR — cigar BrE AmE sɪ ˈɡɑː sə- AmE \ -ˈɡɑːr ▷ cigar|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CLOSE — I . / kləʊz; NAmE kloʊz/ verb , noun —see also close (II) ■ verb WINDOW / DOOR, etc. 1. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NO — / nəʊ; NAmE noʊ/ exclamation , determiner , adverb , noun ■ exclamation 1. used to give a negative reply …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CIGAR — / sɪˈgɑː(r); NAmE / noun a roll of dried tobacco leaves that people smoke, like a cigarette but bigger and …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NO — I. no 1 S1 W1 /nəʊ $ noʊ/ BrE AmE adverb [ Language: Old English ; Origin: na , from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CLOSE
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CIGAR — ci ‧ gar /sɪˈɡɑː $ -ˈɡɑːr/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1700-1800 ; Language: Spanish ; Origin: cigarro , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BUT — I. but 1 S1 W1 /bət; strong bʌt/ BrE AmE conjunction [ Language: Old English ; Origin: butan 'outside, without, …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
NO — adv. & n. --adv. 1 equivalent to a negative sentence: the answer to your question is negative, your request or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NO — adj. 1 not any (there is no excuse; no circumstances could justify it; no two of them are alike). 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CLOSE — adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1 (often foll. by to) situated at only a short distance or interval. 2 a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CIGAR — n. a cylinder of tobacco rolled in tobacco leaves for smoking. [F cigare or Sp. cigarro]
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NO — adv. & n. adv. 1 equivalent to a negative sentence: the answer to your question is negative, your request or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
NO — adj. 1 not any (there is no excuse; no circumstances could justify it; no two of them are alike). 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CLOSE — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (often foll. by to) situated at only a short distance or interval. 2 a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CIGAR — n. a cylinder of tobacco rolled in tobacco leaves for smoking. [ F cigare or Sp. cigarro ]
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BUT — conj., prep., adv., pron., n., & v. conj. 1 a nevertheless, however (tried hard but did not succeed; I am …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
NO — 1. adj.1 not any (there is no excuse; no circumstances could justify it; no two of them are alike). 2 …
Oxford English vocab
CLOSE — 1. adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1. (often foll. by to) situated at only a short distance or interval. 2 …
Oxford English vocab
CIGAR — n. a cylinder of tobacco rolled in tobacco leaves for smoking. Etymology: F cigare or Sp. cigarro
Oxford English vocab
BUT — 1.conj., prep., adv., pron., n., & v. --conj. 1. a nevertheless, however (tried hard but did not succeed; I am …
Oxford English vocab
CLOSE — I. SHUTTING OR COMPLETING /kloʊz/ ( closes, closing, closed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NO — ( noes, or no’s) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CIGAR — ( cigars) Cigars are rolls of dried tobacco leaves which people smoke. He was sitting alone smoking a big cigar. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUT — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use but to introduce something …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CLOSE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CIGAR — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cigarette/cigar/tobacco smoke ▪ The air was thick with cigarette smoke. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BUT — I. conjunction COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bloody but unbowed ▪ After the fight, Ali was bloody but unbowed . But …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CIGAR — [noun] [C] - a number of dried tobacco leaves rolled into a short stick, which people smokeHe enjoys an after-dinner …
Cambridge English vocab
CLOSE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CLOSE — I. close verb 1. to fill an opening with an appropriate closure be sure to close the gate Synonyms: ||put …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
CIGAR — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ fat ▪ expensive ▪ cheap ▪ lit , unlit ▪ Cuban … OF CIGARS ▪ box VERB + …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
NO — INDEX: 1. ways of saying no to a question, request, or suggestion 2. to say no to a question, request …
Longman Activator English vocab

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