CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR

Meaning of CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR in English

( informal , especially NAmE ) used to tell sb that their attempt or guess was almost but not quite successful

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR — nice try but no cigar, good and close but not correct; almost but not entirely successful; good but incorrect guess
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
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

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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