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| Russian | English |
| жить как птицы небесные | lead a cushioned life (Супру) |
| небесная канцелярия | celestial chancellery (www.perevod.kursk.ru) |
| обрушить все кары небесные на кого-то | rain blood and fire on smb. (a dramatic and intense expression of wishing extreme misfortune or punishment upon someone. It implies violent destruction and suffering. The phrase likely originated in the Bible, specifically Revelation 8:7, which describes the first trumpet blast unleashing hail and fire mixed with blood upon the Earth. Over time, this imagery evolved into the more general idiom used today Taras) |