| English | Russian |
| bankrupt in intelligence | тупой |
| crazy in the head | грохнутый на всю голову (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| dressed up in the mantle | манерно (of MichaelBurov) |
| engage in shenanigans | устраивать безобразия (silly or high-spirited behaviour; mischief (Oxford Dictionary); high-spirited or mischievous activity (Merriam-Webster): I remember spending time on boats down at Mosquito Creek or Lynnwood back in the early 2000s. Carpenters from IATSE, firefighters, loggers even, all had sailboats down there. It was actually pretty low class judging from some of the nightly shenanigans. (Reddit) -- если судить по тому, что они устраивали / вытворяли по ночам • students engaging in youthful shenanigans on the last day of school | take a break from their cruise ship school shenanigans (Merriam-Webster) ART Vancouver) |
| engage in shenanigans | вытворять (silly or high-spirited behaviour; mischief (Oxford Dictionary); high-spirited or mischievous activity (Merriam-Webster): I remember spending time on boats down at Mosquito Creek or Lynnwood back in the early 2000s. Carpenters from IATSE, firefighters, loggers even, all had sailboats down there. It was actually pretty low class judging from some of the nightly shenanigans. (Reddit) -- если судить по тому, что они устраивали / вытворяли по ночам • students engaging in youthful shenanigans on the last day of school | take a break from their cruise ship school shenanigans (Merriam-Webster) ART Vancouver) |
| engage in shenanigans | устраивать (silly or high-spirited behaviour; mischief (Oxford Dictionary); high-spirited or mischievous activity (Merriam-Webster): I remember spending time on boats down at Mosquito Creek or Lynnwood back in the early 2000s. Carpenters from IATSE, firefighters, loggers even, all had sailboats down there. It was actually pretty low class judging from some of the nightly shenanigans. (Reddit) -- если судить по тому, что они устраивали / вытворяли по ночам • students engaging in youthful shenanigans on the last day of school | take a break from their cruise ship school shenanigans (Merriam-Webster) ART Vancouver) |
| get involved in a war | ввязаться в войну (Sorry, we have own problems. Ukraine has cost us a fortune, money that could be helping the British people, charity begins at home, we should never have got involved in this war, it's going to go on for years and bankrupt us.  dailymail.co.uk ART Vancouver) |
| hole-in-the-wall | захудалый |
| hole-in-the-wall | жалкий |
| howling in the swamps | вой на болотах |
| in a droning voice | как пономарь (о манере чтения, разговора VLZ_58) |
| in a singsong voice | как пономарь (VLZ_58) |
| meddle in sb.'s affairs | вмешиваться в чьи-либо дела (Premier François Legault called it just another example of the federal government meddling in Quebec's affairs. ART Vancouver) |
| restrict our mental forces in thinking inside the box | ограничивать своё мышлением стереотипами (financial-engineer) |
| sick in the head | грохнутый на всю голову (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| speak in one's beard | ворчать себе под нос (igisheva) |
| speak in one's beard | бурчать себе под нос (igisheva) |
| stick in the mud | отстать от века |
| stick in the mud | отставать от века |
| stick in the mud | косный |
| stick in the mud | расхлябанный |
| stick in the mud | отсталый |
| stick in the mud | замшелый (pothead2104) |
| stick in the mud | погрязнуть в рутине (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| stick in the mud | отстать от жизни (Anglophile) |
| stick-in-the-mud | зануда |
| stick-in-the-mud | отсталый человек |
| stick-in-the-mud | отсталый |
| stick-in-the-mud | расхлябанный (В.И.Макаров) |
| stick-in-the-mud | тяжёлый на подъём |
| stick-in-the-mud | как там его |
| stick-in-the-mud | ретроград |
| stick-in-the-mud | консерватор |
| stick-in-the-mud | раззява |
| stick-in-the-mud | растяпа |
| stick-in-the-mud | скучный занудный домосед (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| stick-in-the-mud | косный отсталый человек |
| stick-in-the-mud | косный |
| stick-in-the-mud | заскорузлый (VLZ_58) |
| the most flawed person I have ever met in my life | самое большое убожище, которое встречалось мне когда бы то ни было в жизни (CNN, 2020: "The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life," the retired Marine general has told friends. Alex_Odeychuk) |
| wallow in grief | упиваться своим горем |
| wallow in grief | предаваться горю |
| why is there a need + infinitive + in the first place | зачем вообще нужно (Why is there a need to demo the viaducts in the first place? They are an important east-west connection out of downtown. ART Vancouver) |
