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| Russian | English |
| лгать мне прямо в лицо | lie to my face (New York Times Alex_Odeychuk) |
| Лицом к лицу лица не увидать, большое видится на расстоянии | A face is blurred seen eye to eye, contours emerge only at a distance (Sergei Yesenin, Letter to a Woman. Transl. by Margaret Wettlin). Used in the figurative tense to mean that one can recognize the importance of an event or pass an objective judgment on it only when it has become a part of the past. VLZ_58) |
| лицом к стене! | face the wall! (Alex_Odeychuk) |