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| if you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. | если в начале пьесы на стене висит ружьё, то к концу пьесы оно должно выстрелить (Чехов OstrichReal1979) |
| stick my awl in the wall and lie down on my side | шило в стенку – и на боковую залечь (the image is a cobbler who finishes his work, sticks his awl into a piece of wood (so he doesn’t lose it or sit on it) and then curls up to go to sleep Alex_Odeychuk) |