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| English | Russian |
| a it's impossible to make him blush | ему, им плюй в глаза – всё божья роса (used sarcastically and contemptuously about or to a person who does shameful things and never feels shame even while being put to shame by others) |
| it is all up with him | его песенка спета |
| it is easier to raise the devil than to lay him | не дразни собаку, она и не укусит |
| it is easier to raise the devil than to lay him | не ищи беды, беда сама тебя сыщет |
| it is easier to raise the devil than to lay him | не буди лиха, пока спит тихо |
| let him take a spring tune on his own fiddle, and dance to it when he has done | вольному воля – спасённому рай |
| let him take a spring tune on his own fiddle, and dance to it when he has done | вольному воля |
| the dog bites the stone, not him that throws it | не по коню, так по оглобле (VLZ_58) |