English | Russian |
find a pin's head | искать иголку в стоге сена |
he that will steal a pin will steal a better thing | коготок увяз – всей птичке пропасть (one reprehensible step leads to many more with no way of getting out of it at all) |
he that will steal a pin, will steal a pound | кто украдёт иголку, украдёт и кошёлку |
he that will steal a pin will steal a pound | кто украдет иголку, украдет и кошёлку (ср.: кто украдет яйцо, украдет и быка) |
look for a pin's head in a cartload of hay | искать иголку в стоге сена |
not to set at a pin's fee | ни в грош не ставить |
pin one's hopes | возлагать надежды (на кого, на что; on someone, something: Sukhoi would now have to pin their hopes on current Superjet operators Aeroflot and Armenian carrier Armavia to build up a successful operating record with the aircraft, he added. TMT Alexander Demidov) |
pin one's hopes | возлагать большие надежды (on someone, something) |
you could hear a pin drop | слышно, как муха пролетит |