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Meanings of bolshy in английском

Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries.

Obstreperous.

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Examples for "red"
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However, he added: The red line is that PSA will remain French.
Reuters
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Methods: Eighteen young healthy women drank red wine daily for 3 weeks.
Pubmed
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The workers agreed - We expect to see the red sea again.
Radio NZ
4
But West China Cement's share price plunge is a clear red flag.
Reuters
5
Well here's my answer: you'd better believe Trident is a red line.
The Guardian
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For the show, Dave - confident and bolshie - took the lead.
BBC
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Despite his reputation for quietness, Seaman is quick-witted and bolshie with hecklers.
The Guardian
3
Dollar Shave Club's approach was to be brash, bolshie and have an everyman appeal.
The Guardian
4
When it comes to executive remuneration, shareholders of Irish public companies are becoming increasingly bolshie.
The Irish Times
5
I really do feel rather helpless and bolshie tonight.
The Guardian
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He was pro-Soviet while abominating the inhumane Bolshevik treatment of political prisoners.
The God That Failed
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No Bolshevik must ever, I repeat, ever, set foot on German soil.
The forgotten soldier
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It was possible because Bolshevik Russia had become the cemetery of Bolsheviks.
The God That Failed
4
The line cut through the centre of the Bolshevik field of operations.
With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia
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But they were attached to this romantic idea of the Bolshevik revolution.
The Guardian
1
At one point in his presentation, Michael McDowell's phraseology became almost Marxist.
The Irish Times
2
The paramilitaries were set up in the 1980s to fight Marxist rebels.
Reuters
3
Tsipras has already begun the journey from ideological Marxist to pragmatic politician.
The Guardian
4
Suspected Marxist rebels have come close to assassinating Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
The Irish Times
5
He is a former Marxist politician but he trusts his field commanders.
The Irish Times
Usage of bolshy in английском
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People thought they were either surly or bolshy, or a combination of the two.
The Guardian
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Edgy, bolshy and notoriously prickly to interview, Warpaint like to live up to their name.
The Guardian
3
All the bolshy talk about "the top end of town" simply never rang true.
News.com.au
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So naturally I chose to support their arch-rivals Liverpool when I was a bolshy, stubborn seven-year-old.
Radio NZ
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It was pretty bolshy at the moment.
Career of Evil
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They were, in fact, Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth who -although both bolshy when young -were just doing what nature poets do.
The Guardian
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They call 'em 'Bolshies,' whatever that means.
The Man in the Twilight
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Echo the whiskered Bolshy's lines
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919
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"It's the bolshy," the creature said to nobody in particular.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
Frequent collocations
Bolshy through the time