| English | Russian |
| cold nerve | нахальство (But, dash it, how could I have been expected to take into consideration the possibility that this cove, headmaster though he was, would have had the cold nerve to walk into Sippy's private office instead of pushing in a normal and orderly manner through the public door? (P.G. Wodehouse) – что у него хватит нахальства ART Vancouver) |
| get a nerve | обнаглеть (то же, что have a nerve sea holly) |
| have a nerve | обнаглеть (то же, что get a nerve sea holly) |
| hit a nerve | наступить на больную мозоль (CNN, 2021 Alex_Odeychuk) |
| hit a nerve | затронуть больную тему (VLZ_58) |
| hit a nerve | ударить по больному месту (VLZ_58) |
| hit a nerve | задеть за живое |
| hit a raw nerve | задеть за живое (Anglophile) |
| hold one's nerve | сохранять спокойствие (Alexey Lebedev) |
| hold one's nerve | сохранять невозмутимость (Баян) |
| hold one's nerve | не терять решимость (Баян) |
| hold one's nerve | сохранять выдержку (Баян) |
| hold one's nerve | сохранять решимость (Баян) |
| hold one's nerve | сохранять самообладание (Баян) |
| hold one's nerve | не терять самообладания (Alexey Lebedev) |
| keep one's nerve | сохранять спокойствие (Alexey Lebedev) |
| keep one's nerve | не терять самообладания (Alexey Lebedev) |
| lose one's nerve | отчаиваться (Andrey Truhachev) |
| lose one's nerve | падать духом (Andrey Truhachev) |
| lose one's nerve | приходить в отчаяние (Andrey Truhachev) |
| lose one's nerve | пасть духом (Andrey Truhachev) |
| lose one's nerve | упасть духом (Andrey Truhachev) |
| of iron nerve | с железными нервами (e.g.: "He was always a man of iron nerve (...)" – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ART Vancouver) |
| pluck up someone's nerve | собираться с духом (grafleonov) |
| strain every nerve | прилагать все усилия |
| strike a nerve | задеть за живое (The column clearly struck a nerve with Russia's air defense experts. Indeed, former chief of staff of Russia's air defense forces, Col. Gen. Igor Maltsev, told Gazeta.ru that stealth technology was "paper fiction." artery) |
| strike a deep nerve | взять за душу (with someone: It was a very real scene that struck a deep nerve with me, like I was seeing it happen in front of me in real time. 4uzhoj) |
| strike a raw nerve | задеть за живое (bigmaxus) |
| touch a nerve | хватать за душу (Interex) |
| touch a nerve | задеть за живое (She suddenly looked distressed and I knew I'd touched a raw nerve. • Eileen's innocent remark to Mike seemed to have touched a nerve. • Forgive me if I touched a nerve. – Простите, если задела вас за живое.) |
| touch someone on tenderest nerve | задеть за живое (from The Final Diagnosis by A.Hailey Galdbera) |
