Rusă | Engleză |
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за неимением лучшего adverb | faute de mieux(for want of something better) |
закрывающий глаза на неверность жены noun {m} | mari complaisant(husband who tolerates his wife's adultery) |
игра не по правилам noun {f} | foul play(unfair, unethical, or criminal behavior) |
играть на нервах verb {imPlf} | get on someone's nerves(annoy or irritate) |
книга небольшого формата noun {f} | pocketbook [pocketbooks](one's personal budget) |
Книга Неемии proper noun {f} | Nehemiah(book of the Bible) |
комар носа не подточит preposition | to a T(precisely; exactly) |
лающая собака не кусает phrase | barking dogs seldom bite(people who make threats rarely carry them out) one's bark is worse than one's bite(one acts in a threatening way but is relatively harmless) |
Москва не сразу строилась phrase | Rome wasn't built in a day(it takes a long time to create something complicated or impressive) |
на некоторое время adverb | awhile(For some time; for a short time) |
нечто за нечто noun | quid pro quo [quid pro quos]noun |
никогда не adverb | never ever(emphatic never) |
никогда не зарекайся informal phrase | never say neverphrase |
одни глаза не сыты verb | have eyes bigger than one's stomach(take more food than one can eat) |
от добра добра не ищут phrase | no news is good news(lack of information suggests nothing bad) |
подружка невесты noun {f} | bridesmaid [bridesmaids](woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony) |
пока не conjunction | till(until) until(up to the time that) |
пока не перепрыгнешь phrase | don't count your chickens before they're hatched(one should not depend upon a favorable outcome to one's plans until it is certain to occur) there's many a slip twixt cup and lip(in any situation something can always go wrong) |
пока не увижу phrase | seeing is believing(you need to see something to believe it) |
пока нет adverb | not yet(not for the moment, though expected later) |
просьба не беспокоить phrase | do not disturbphrase |
против лома нет приёма verb | bring a knife to a gunfight(to be inadequately equipped) |
сводить на нет verb | whittle [whittled, whittling, whittles](reduce or gradually eliminate something) |
семь пятниц на неделе у кого-либо verb | blow hot and cold(inconsistent behavior) |
слова не должны расходиться с делом verb | practice what one preaches(act in harmony with one's teachings) |
спина не болит phrase | talk is cheap(it is easy to make boastful statements which are not supported by actions) |
сходить на нет verb | taper [tapered, tapering, tapers](to diminish gradually) taper off(diminish or lessen gradually; to become smaller, slower, quieter, etc.) |
тот добра не наживёт phrase | a rolling stone gathers no moss(a person who never settles in one place will never be successful) |
точка невозврата noun | point of no return((aviation) the point in a flight when there is insufficient fuel to return to the origin) |
учиться никогда не поздно phrase | you're never too old to learn(proverb) |
Фома неверующий noun {m} | doubting Thomas(one who requires proof) |
Царица Небесная proper noun {f} | Queen of Heaven(Virgin Mary) |