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| Russian | English |
| безделица прекращает иногда большие ссоры | a small rain lays a great dust |
| большая мошна | well-lined pocket |
| большая семья | quiverful |
| большое количество | scores (cognachennessy) |
| большое пространство | ocean |
| большое число | a soup of (чего-либо: a soup of permissions that are too arduous to negotiate A.Rezvov) |
| большое число | million |
| большой дуралей | a great lump of flesh |
| большой знаток | whale (he is a whale on (at) history – он большой знаток истории) |
| большому кораблю большое плавание | a big man deserves a big job |
| в большой семье клювом не щёлкают | blink-and you ll miss it (andreon) |
| в большом долгу у | owe a great debt to (The world owes a great debt to Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel for his tremendous work to catalogue the complete works of Mozart. ART Vancouver) |
| иметь большой вес | carry weight (lexicographer) |
| начало чего-то большого | peeling the first lay of the onion (just_green) |
| неприятная мелочь, способная испортить что-то большое и хорошее | asterisk (Utah coach Quin Snyder couldn't stop praising his team's defense after the Jazz limited Sacramento to four second-chance points. It was their inconsistency that bothered Snyder, a small asterisk on an otherwise strong night. VLZ_58) |
| он привык к большому размаху | he is used to doing things on a large scale |
| пользоваться большим успехом | take off big time ((...) the sport that has taken off big time across the country. Valeriia21) |
| привести к большой путанице | result in a great mix-up |
| приводить к большой путанице | result in a great mix-up |
| с большим трудом пройти | squeak past (о законопроекте: The PM faced a revolt within his own party as he lost support over his rejigged Rwanda bill after their original plans were deemed unlawful – but he clung onto power as the bill squeaked past with a majority of just 44.  metro.co.uk ART Vancouver) |
| сыграть большую роль | play a large part (Being from a small town played a large part in who I became and, ultimately, what I do in the tech sector. ART Vancouver) |
| сыграть большую роль | play a big role (in – в: Visitors from the countryside are thought to have played a big role in the bloody riots. ART Vancouver) |
| требующий слишком больших сил и затрат | high-maintenance (о человеке: "Look, Ted is a very high-maintenance guy," says a long-time girlfriend of Fonda's from Los Angeles. "He is known for loving-the-one-you're-with syndrome, and fooling around on his wives." (Vanity Fair) ART Vancouver) |
| у меня большая нагрузка | I'm loaded down with work |
| уделять большое внимание | place a large premium on (чем-либо A.Rezvov) |
| что-нибудь большое, но незначительное | wool pack |