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| English | Russian |
| bitten by a snake | укушенный змеёй (euphemism for experiencing failure or bad luck Val_Ships) |
| snake pit | серпентарий (grafleonov) |
| snake pit | дурдом (a place of overcrowded squalor, esp. a poorly run mental hospital; originally from the title of a novel by Mary Jane Ward, 1946 Alex Lilo) |