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| English | Russian |
| cast a bad spell on | навести на к-либо порчу (someone ellash) |
| spell it something out for | разложить по полочкам (someone VLZ_58) |
| spell the death of | привести к концу (чего-либо) |
| spell the death of | подписать смертный приговор (The plan spelt the death of professional football in the city. • Increasing EU involvement in taxation could spell the death of the nation state. Andrey Truhachev) |
| spell the death of | вынести смертный приговор (The plan spelt the death of professional football in the city. • Increasing EU involvement in taxation could spell the death of the nation state. Andrey Truhachev) |
| spell the death of | поставить крест на (feihoa) |
| spell the death of | погубить (The Stamp Act–the "fatal Black-Act," one printer called it–was set to go into effect on November 1, 1765. Beginning that day, printers were to affix stamps to their pages and to pay tax collectors a halfpenny for every half sheet–amounting, ordinarily, to a penny for every copy of every issue of every newspaper–and a two-shilling tax on every advertisement. Printers insisted that they could not bear this cost. It would spell the death of the newspaper.  newyorker.com Andrey Truhachev) |
| spell the death of | в итоге похоронить (что-либо: Those who predicted that computers would spell the death of literacy were evidently not as far-sighted as they thought. The Internet, it seems, offers immense resources for anyone interested in the written word, whether to improve their own writing or research someone else's. independent.co.uk) |
| weave a spell over sb | использовать свои чары, околдовать (BroKE) |