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| Russian | English |
| быть одержимым навязчивой идеей | have a bee in one's bonnet (be preoccupied or obsessed with an idea Val_Ships) |
| навязчивая идея | white whale (physicists struggled to close in on the Higgs boson—the great white whale of modern science; the project had become his white whale Aiduza) |
| навязчивая идея | bee in the bonnet (Баян) |