Can someone please explain...

[hopeinagpa.livejournal.com]

I watched the film Ironiya Sudbui awhile ago, and there's this phrase in there I just cannot figure out.

When Nadya changes into her New Year's dress, she comes out and Ippolit looks very pleased says "она очень идет"...or something to that effect, and I was wondering 1. what's it mean (I'm guessing something complimenting Nadya's appearance)? 2. Is it an idiom or some type of odd grammatical construction that applies elsewhere. 3. Is it a dated expression/grammatical construction?

Thanks!

Comments

[mm-kalkin.livejournal.com]

I guess it was something like "Оно (платье) очень идёт (тебе)". It is really an idiom, you could translate it into English as "It really suits you".

[ex-qnn171.livejournal.com]

"что-то кому-то идёт"
1. it means that something suits somebody well
2. no
3. no
e.g. "ей идёт это платье" = "this dress suits her"

[oryx_and_crake]

Тебе очень идет (это платье, прическа and so on) - you look very good in it, it becomes you (used when speaking about clothes, colour, a hairdo or a hat). I don't know if you can call this an idiom. Probably not, it is just a set expression. I don't think it is dated (hey, "Ironiya sud'by" is not that old)

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

the movie's not that old but it's very quaint though
i never liked it
and i have flashbacks of it being on tv every year around new year
that and "the night before christmas" noch pered rozhdestvom
that one i liked

t.

[oryx_and_crake]

The characters act really stupid (getting drunk with friends and ending up in another city, abandoning your fiancee for someone you see the first time in your life etc.) But the authors make this behaviour look really romantic and noble. Not my idea of noble, that's for sure.

[gera.livejournal.com]

Where you born in the USSR?
I thought you were just a learner :)

[gera.livejournal.com]

In the beginning they made her look like a bitch so that people won't feel too bad about him abandoning her.
You can always tell in a movie if the character's spouse or girlfriend is a bitch, there's no happy end for her.
At least, not with him.

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

I'm re-learner
yes I was born there and lived there for 13 years

[philena.livejournal.com]

It means "that suits you," as everyone else has said, but here's how I know: my boyfriend was in Russian three years ago or so, and while he was there he bought a bright purple knee-length coat. (He likes purple, you see.) And as he was wearing it on the street, a person said to him "vam id'ot" (sorry--can't type cyrillic on this computer). Since the person could not possibly have meant anything other than "that looks absolutely fabulous on you, you extremely handsome man who looks good in everything," I consider the anecdote unrefutable proof of the idiom's meaning.

[gera.livejournal.com]

That's quite a headstart :)

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

is this considered cheating?

[gera.livejournal.com]

Definitely!
Your mark will be adjusted, young lady!

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

i shouldn't have said anything! can I change my story?

actually I am from a very small nomadic goat raising community in kazakhstan... and... we didnt know any russian...

[schwarzer-tod.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, did you write this sarcastically because you know he's going to read this comment later?

[philena.livejournal.com]

It's nothing but the pure truth. :-)

[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! I was describing the film to a friend the other day, and for the -LIFE- of me, I could not remember the title!!


Катя

[irkin.livejournal.com]

Getting drunk so much is really stupid but as for abandoning fiancee for a stranger - sometimes you just *feel* the difference at once. That is probably not very fair but you can't make happy *everyone*.

Sorry for the off-topic, I just wanted to say something in "defense" because I really love the film :)