| English | Russian |
| be green about the gills | резко побледнеть от испуга (Tarija) |
| he is green about the gills | на нём лица нет |
| packed-to-the-gills | битком набитый (In a city like Vancouver, touted with nauseating frequency as a Number One Place to Visit, Live, Invest, you’d think that every inch of space would be spoken for and maximized. However, as anyone who has lived here longer than a month knows, that’s not really the case. There are squares, rectangles, slices, whole blocks of mystifyingly empty land throughout our supposedly high-priced, packed-to-the-gills metropolis.  bcbusiness.ca ART Vancouver) |
| packed-to-the-gills | заполненный до отказа (In a city like Vancouver, touted with nauseating frequency as a Number One Place to Visit, Live, Invest, you’d think that every inch of space would be spoken for and maximized. However, as anyone who has lived here longer than a month knows, that’s not really the case. There are squares, rectangles, slices, whole blocks of mystifyingly empty land throughout our supposedly high-priced, packed-to-the-gills metropolis. bcbusiness.ca ART Vancouver) |
| stuffed to the gills | битком набитый (водитель автобуса передаёт по рации: Hi Harry, it's Jim. I'm stuffed to the gills, no more pick-ups till downtown. – Салон битком набит, до центра пассажиров не беру. ART Vancouver) |
