| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | остальных исполнителей он сбрасывает со счетов как простых любителей | he kisses the other performers off as mere amateurs |
| gen. | простой исполнитель | mere executor In practice, the Treasury often acts as a mere executor of funding decisions taken by parliament... (VLZ_58) |
| intell. | простой исполнитель | patsy (обвиняемый в преступлении, на которого списывают вину: With Chapman, the CIA could have drawn on its long experience of using mind-controlling drugs and techniques such as hypnosis to produce assassins who would eliminate trouble-makers, and ‘patsies’, the fall guys on whom such killings could be blamed.  dailymail.co.uk ART Vancouver) |
| intell. | простой исполнитель | fall guy (обвиняемый в преступлении, на которого списывают вину: With Chapman, the CIA could have drawn on its long experience of using mind-controlling drugs and techniques such as hypnosis to produce assassins who would eliminate trouble-makers, and ‘patsies’, the fall guys on whom such killings could be blamed. dailymail.co.uk ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | простой исполнитель | mere executor (In practice, the Treasury often acts as a mere executor of funding decisions taken by parliament (VLZ_58) |
