| Russian | English |
| бог мне свидетель | honest to God (I didn't mean to hurt him, honest to God I didn't! Val_Ships) |
| бог свидетель | heaven knows (heaven knows, we’ll miss you – бог свидетель, мы будем скучать по тебе YuliaO) |
| коронный свидетель | crown witness, government witness, co-operating witness, criminal witness, criminal informant informer, informant witness (a witness giving so-called accomplice testimony Litvishko) |
| при свидетелях | before witnesses (grafleonov) |
| свидетели и т.д. были подкуплены | the witness the press, the voters, etc. have been got at |
