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| Russian | English |
| заждаться, затянуться | wait rather a long wait (Waiting for a king to apologize, one can wait rather a long wait dissenter) |
| затянувшаяся болезнь | dragging illness (CopperKettle) |
| затянувшаяся болезнь | dragging sickness (CopperKettle) |
| затянувшаяся простуда | dragging cold (CopperKettle) |
| затянуть в неприятную историю | get sb. into a mess (It lead me up a long, very narrow dirt road that kept getting narrower. One car could barely fit on this road. Suddenly, there were steep cliffs on either side of me. I was on that twisting narrow death trap road driving at about five miles per hour for over an hour and a half. Then, I lost signal. GPS went out. GPS got me into that mess but it had no plans to get me back to a regular road.  unexplained-mysteries.com ART Vancouver) |
| затянуть потуже пояс | tighten one's belt (dict.cc Andrey Truhachev) |
| затянуть потуже ремень | pull in one's belt (dict.cc Andrey Truhachev) |
| затянуть потуже ремень | tighten one's belt (dict.cc Andrey Truhachev) |
| затянуть пояс потуже | tighten one's belt (tighten your belt
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to spend less money than you did before because you have less money:
: I've had to tighten my belt since I stopped working full-time. cambridge.org Andrey Truhachev) |
| затянуть пояс потуже | pull in one's belt (the people are asked to pull in their belts, to make some sacrifices ... 'More) |