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| English | Russian |
| go up like a match box | загореться как порох (Most of these old apartment houses in Strathcona and Mount Pleasant are fire traps that go up like a match box. ART Vancouver) |
| like a jack in the box | как гром среди ясного неба (to appear suddenly Val_Ships) |
| like a jack in the box | как чёрт из табакерки (idiom; to appear suddenly Val_Ships) |