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| English | Russian |
| demon in the bottle | зелёный змий (I should start by explaining that my father was a heavy drinker. ... He'd inherited a cabin high in the Colorado Rockies from his father (also afflicted by the demon in the bottle), and most weekends he took me up there with him to get away from the life and the world he seemed to hate so much. 4uzhoj) |
| lightning in a bottle | скоротечный роман (Taras) |
| lightning in a bottle | подвиг, требующий много сил (Palmirov) |
| lightning in a bottle | бурный роман (скоротечный: - Lightning in a bottle? – Flash... in a pan – У вас был бурный роман? – Да так, мимолётная интрижка Taras) |
| lightning in a bottle | колоссальный, мгновенный успех (кратковременный Palmirov) |
| like a bee in a bottle | как пчела в бутылке (о всё время повторяющемся, монотонном звуке Bobrovska) |