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| English | Russian |
| be dug out of a parsley-bed | быть найденным в капусте (It can only be unfit for the perusal of such females as still believe the legend of their nursery that children are dug out of a parsley-bed; who have never been at church, or looked into a Bible, – and are totally ignorant that in the present state of the world, two sexes are necessary to the production of animals) |
| be found in a parsley-bed | быть найденным в капусте |
| bed in | обкатываться (Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s The Second Machine Age holds that we are living in an age in which growth is low because new technologies are bedding in. A.Rezvov) |
| bed of roses | не житьё, а масленица |
| come out of a parsley-bed | быть найденным в капусте |
| confine to bed | приковывать к постели |
| dig out of a parsley-bed | найти в капусте (It can only be unfit for the perusal of such females as still believe the legend of their nursery that children are dug out of a parsley-bed; who have never been at church, or looked into a Bible, – and are totally ignorant that in the present state of the world, two sexes are necessary to the production of animals.) |
| feather-bed | удобное положение |
| find in a parsley-bed | найти в капусте (о ребенке, чаще всего девочке; ср. gooseberry bush SirReal) |
| get out of the wrong side of bed | встать с левой ноги |
| get up on the wrong side of the bed | встать с левой ноги |
| he is finely brought to bed | он славно попался |