| English | Russian |
| it wasn't always this way | так было не всегда (It wasn’t always this way. ART Vancouver) |
| it wasn't meant to be | не сложилось (Hundreds of businesses had to close due to the pandemic. I thought we would find a way out and stay open, but it wasn't meant to be. ART Vancouver) |
| it wasn't meant to be | не судьба (It is a fatalistic expression. To say that something (for example, an event) "wasn't meant to be" means that the thing was not destined to happen (or that it was destined to not happen). It attributes the thing's not happening to fate or destiny. It has roughly the same meaning as the idiom it just wasn't in the cards.  stackexchange.com ART Vancouver) |
| it wasn't meant to be | этому не суждено было сбыться (So, I returned to the Marine Corps, and did my best to disappear into obscurity. It wasn’t meant to be. Within a few months of my new assignment, I was visited by a CIA team, who briefed me on growing concerns that Iraq was hiding weapons and seeking my advice on how they should go about organizing to uncover evidence of their existence. swentr.site ART Vancouver) |
| see? that wasn't too bad, was it? | вот видишь, ничего страшного (после благополучного завершения чего-л. рискованного ART Vancouver) |
| that wasn't always the case | так было не всегда (This is the common conception of an alien around most of the world. Or at least, it has been for the last 40 years. But that wasn't always the case. -- Но так было не всегда. (coasttocoastam.com) ART Vancouver) |
| wasn't for nothing | не прошло впустую (Though technically a failure, the Vivaldi brothers’ doomed journey wasn’t for nothing. The mistakes they made helped lay the foundation for more successful voyages down the road. mentalfloss.com ART Vancouver) |
| wasn't for nothing | было не зря (Though technically a failure, the Vivaldi brothers’ doomed journey wasn’t for nothing. The mistakes they made helped lay the foundation for more successful voyages down the road. • "... всё на свете было не зря, не напрасно было" (Леонид Дербенёв) mentalfloss.com ART Vancouver) |
| wasn't for nothing | было не напрасно (Though technically a failure, the Vivaldi brothers’ doomed journey wasn’t for nothing. The mistakes they made helped lay the foundation for more successful voyages down the road. • "... всё на свете было не зря, не напрасно было" (Леонид Дербенёв) mentalfloss.com ART Vancouver) |
