| Subject | English | Russian |
| gen. | become a thing | стать проблемой (HarlemHomeboy) |
| idiom. | become a thing | войти в моду (VLZ_58) |
| idiom. | become a thing | стать модным увлечением (VLZ_58) |
| idiom. | become a thing | стать модным (I personally was most interested in finding out when and why making angry, threatening video addresses to enemies and sticking them on YouTube became a thing among the Russian elite... TMT, Sept. 21 2018, Of Meat and Men by Michele A. Berdy VLZ_58) |
| gen. | become a thing | превратиться в проблему (HarlemHomeboy) |
| gen. | become a thing of the past | отжить свой век |
| gen. | become a thing of the past | уходить в прошлое (eg As a result, traveler's checks are becoming a thing of the past. 'More) |
| gen. | become a thing of the past | отойти в прошлое |
| gen. | become a thing of the past | отойти в историю |
| fig.of.sp. | become a thing of the past | уйти в прошлое (Newsreader) |
| fig.of.sp. | become a thing of the past | кануть в прошлое (Leonid Dzhepko) |
| gen. | become a thing of the past | отживать |
| gen. | become like a common thing | стать обычным делом (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| Makarov. | it ill becomes you to say such things | вам не пристало говорить такие вещи |
| Makarov. | it ill becomes you to say such things | вам не к лицу говорить такие вещи |
| gen. | it would ill become you to do such a thing | вам совсем не к лицу делать такие вещи |
| fig.of.sp. | someone is becoming less perceptive of things | глаз замыливается (VLZ_58) |
| proverb | there are four things that the earth itself cannot tolerate: a slave who becomes a king, a fool who has all he wants to eat, a hateful woman who gets married, and a servant girl who takes the place of her mistress | четырёх человек не может носить земля: раба, ставшего царём, сытого глупца, гулящую женщину, когда она выходит замуж, и служанку, когда она занимает место своей госпожи |
| gen. | thing-becoming | становление (Masha_Hillton; I think it is used exclusively in philosophy, especially in translating/discussing German philosophy. For instance: https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/oswald-spengler/ This link takes you to a Yale-published article that mentions both "thing-becoming" and "thing-become" kriemhild) |
| Makarov. | things are becoming serious | положение становится угрожающим |
| Makarov. | things are becoming serious | положение осложняется |
