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| English | Russian |
| come to a sticky end | попасть как кур в ощип (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| come to a sticky end | плохо кончить (I reasoned the thing out. If Plank had come to a sticky end since I had seen him last and had started on a haunting career, I said to myself, why should he be haunting Maiden Eggesford when the whole of equatorial Africa was open to him? (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) |
| find oneself on a sticky wicket | оказаться в затруднительном положении (‘Put it up to Jeeves' is so much the slogan in my circle of acquaintance that it might be that even Sir Roderick Glossop, finding himself on a sticky wicket, had decided to place his affairs in his hands. Jeeves is like Sherlock Holmes. The highest in the land come to him with their problems. (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) |
| have sticky fingers | вор (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| have sticky fingers | подворовывать (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| have sticky fingers | воровать (cnlweb) |
| have sticky fingers | заниматься мелким воровством (cnlweb) |
| have sticky fingers | быть нечистым на руку (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| have sticky fingers | нечистый на руку (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| on a sticky wicket | в щекотливой ситуации (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| sticky fingered, has itchy fingers | не чист на руку (of a gambler Aleppo) |
| sticky-fingered ne'er-do-well | воришка (Authorities in Germany are investigating a strange case wherein a sticky-fingered ne'er-do-well stole 80 goldfish from a man's backyard pond and then mysteriously returned the pilfered creatures a few days later. (coasttocoastam.com) • A nearly 25-year-old mystery surrounding a golden weathervane stolen from a French town has been resolved after the pilfered piece was returned by the remorseful thief behind the misguided caper. The weird case reportedly began back in April of 1999 when a sticky-fingered ne'er-do-well made off with the metallic depiction of a cockerel that had sat atop a cross in the small community of Bessan. (coasttocoastam.com) • A Sasquatch statue stolen from a front yard in Tennessee is back home where it belongs thanks to a dedicated individual who located and recovered the pilfered piece by way of a rather daring rescue. In late February, some sticky-fingered ne'er-do-wells made off with the 250-pound faux Bigfoot that had sat outside Jennifer Jordan's Memphis residence for the last seven years. (coasttocoastam.com) ART Vancouver) |
| suffer a sticky patch | непростой период (напр., в отношениях YuliaO) |
| suffer a sticky patch | переживать сложности (из книги британского автора ..she confessed they were suffering a sticky patch in their relationship – она призналась, что в их отношениях было не всё гладко YuliaO) |