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| Russian | English |
| "положить" мотоцикл | put the bike down (I am never going to put the motorcycle down to avoid an accident. Brake, swerve anything but laying it down. • Belcastro, who was wearing a helmet, put down the bike on the road, which is a common crash evasio tactic, but he struck the car as the bike slid past and stopped beyond the intersection. 4uzhoj) |
| "положить" мотоцикл | lay the bike down (You generally get a phrase like' I couldn't stop in time so I had to lay the bike down'. This is code for 'I don't know and was never taught how to use the brakes.' • "I had to lay down the bike to avoid hitting the curb, sliding a good fifty feet," he said. "I was lucky to be alive." • Whenever someone says "I had to lay her down" all I hear is "I ran out of skill." • Laying a bike down to reduce the impact is not giving up. Sometimes it is all you have but you can not just toss the bike over without any thought. • I've never understood the "I had to lay the bike down" thing and don't see it as a strategy that should ever even come up. 4uzhoj) |