devil-may-care

suomi-englanti sanakirja

devil-may-care englannista suomeksi

  1. ajattelematon

  2. huoleton

  1. rämäpäinen, holtiton, välinpitämätön, huoleton

devil-may-care englanniksi

  1. Carefree, reckless, irresponsible.

  2. 1837, "Venator", ''The Warwickshire Hunt from 1795 to 1836'', Prefatory Remarks:

  3. This is the sort of witchery, not easily defined—but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it careless to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi-devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in his transit a benison from every real friend of the chase he may chance to pass; and the airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to rolls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his memory with the frolic gayety of other days, and animate his mind with reflections most welcome to his heart.
  4. (quote-text)|chapter=49|passage=Not that this would have worried him much, anyway—he was a mighty free and easy, roving, devil-may-care sort of person.

  5. (quote-text)|chapter=3|passage=Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.

  6. {{quote-text|en|year=1988|author=Michael Hopkinson|title=Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=BO34AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT382&dq=Collins'+death+can+be+put+down+to+his+devil-may-care+attitude-+his+decision+to+journey+through+hostile+territory+in+a+large+convoy,+the+inadequate+choice+of+the+members+of+the+convoy,+and+the+tactics+he+adopted+in+the+ambush.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYg4ui76rjAhUIVH0KHfgYATcQ6AEIJzAAv=onepage&q=Collins'%20death%20can%20be%20put%20down%20to%20his%20devil-may-care%20attitude-%20his%20decision%20to%20journey%20through%20hostile%20territory%20in%20a%20large%20convoy%2C%20the%20inadequate%20choice%20of%20the%20members%20of%20the%20convoy%2C%20and%20the%20tactics%20he%20adopted%20in%20the%20ambush.&f=false

  7. {{quote-journal|en|date=May 21 2011|author=Altin Raxhimi|title=The Trouble with Democracy: Albania's Worrisome Vote|titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630201155/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2073237,00.html|journal=Time

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