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брать на себя роль оппонента (в ходе дискуссии, чтобы всесторонне обсудить рассматриваемый вопрос: Tom is always playing devil's advocate in any given conversation because he loves picking apart other people's arguments. Val_Ships); побыть адвокатом дьявола (I don't think he was really in favour of getting rid of the scheme, he was just playing devil's advocate. • I agree with Tom on the subject, but let me play devil's advocate and say that the other side has some good points. • But let me play devil's advocate for a minute: what are we trying to accomplish with articles like the one today in the New York Times? • Mary offered to play devil's advocate and argue against our case so that we would find out any flaws in it. 4uzhoj) |
