dacha
/ˈdatʃə
/(also datcha)
noun
A country house or cottage in Russia, typically used as a second or holiday home.A man may boast of his home as his castle, but Russians are increasingly turning to building country homes and dachas that are plain, economical and rather small....
- He enjoyed the company of some of his young male students whom he would invite to his country dacha at the weekend for a spot of vigorous log-cutting with an enormous two-handled saw.
- Almost everyone I know in Europe - among the professional and business class - has some small second home in the country somewhere - a dacha usually belonging to the family for generations.
Origin
Russian, originally 'grant (of land)'.
Rhymes
- give someone the bird
- give someone the boot
- give someone the creeps
- give someone the elbow
- give someone (the) evils
- give someone the eye
- give someone the finger
- give someone the flick (or get the flick)
- give someone the glad eye
- give someone the hairy eyeball
- give someone their cards
- give someone their due
- give someone their head
- give someone the needle
- give someone the pip
- give someone the shits
- give someone the shudders
- give someone the slip
- give someone the time of day
- give someone the works
- give someone/thing a bad name
- give someone/thing a (good) run for their money
- give someone/thing a wide berth
- give someone/thing best
- give someone/thing the nod