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• СМОТРЕТЬ <ГЛЯДЕТЬ> НЕ НА ЧТО coll. disapprov

[VP; infin only; predic with быть (impers or with subj: human, animal, or concr; usu. pres; usu. this WO]

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⇒ (usu. used to express dissatisfaction, a scornful attitude etc toward s.o. or sth.) some person, animal, or thing is too unattractive (small, lacking in some area etc) even to merit attention:

- (X -) смотреть не на что{{}}≈ X isn't (even) worth a second look;

- X is nothing <not much> to look at;

- X is too ugly <small, dinky etc> (even) to bother with;

- [in limited contexts] there's nothing <there isn't anything> to look at;

- [of an animal or thing only] X isn't worth the space it takes up <the money one paid for it etc>;

- X isn't (even) worth having.

     ♦ Другой раз попадется такой [мужик], что и смотреть не на что: кривой, горбатый, деньги пропивает, жену и детей бьёт до полусмерти (Войнович 2). Sometimes you might get one [a man] that's not much to look at-blind in one eye, hunchbacked, drinks away his money, beats his wife and children half to death (1a).

     ♦ [Пашка:] Когда я отсюда уезжал, ты вот (показывает) была. Совсем пацанка, я и не смотрел на тебя... Да и смотреть не на что было... (Вампилов 2). [Р:] When I left this place you were this high. (He indicates.) Nothing but a kid, and I never even looked at you. ...And there wasn't anything to look at either... (2b).

     ♦ Серафима Платоновна всем расхваливает свою новую мебель, а там и смотреть не на что. Serafima Platonovna brags to everybody about her new furniture, but it's not worth the space it takes up.