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| English | Russian |
| do someone an ill turn | удружить |
| someone with a "hard luck story" | казанская сирота (Anglophile) |
| whet someone's appetite for something | возбудить интерес кого-либо к чему-либо (Применение: We certainly hope that this will whet your (students) appetite for the material covered in this course. Салават Исмагилов) |