| English | Russian |
| pull a string | тянуть за ниточку (см. pull strings Taras) |
| pull string | тянуть за ниточку (см. pull strings Taras) |
| pull strings | нажать на все кнопки (натянуть веревки Drozdova) |
| pull strings | ты меня проверяешь (you are testing me Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| pull strings | дёргать за верёвочки (тянуть за ниточки; манипулировать кем-либо; использовать своё влияние и власть; to exert behind-the-scenes influence. The term comes from puppetry: puppets or marionettes are manipulated by means of strings or wires held by the puppetmaster. It was transferred to politics by 1860, when Bishop William Stubbs wrote (Lectures on the Study of History), "A king who pulled the strings of government." Taras) |
| pull strings | оказывать закулисное влияние (Taras) |
| pull strings | дёргать за ниточки (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| pull the strings | заправлять (чем-л. предосудительным • So basically the people who built this province will get to have no heritage and if so-called indigenous peoples ask for Heritage designations to be removed it'll just be done. This is racism. It's not Equity it's not Justice it's pure and simple ethnic racism and for some reason a lot of rich white people enjoy destroying their own Heritage because they feel that some other group is more deserving. You find that it's almost always rich white people who are pulling the strings here. -- этим заправляют (vancouversun.com) ART Vancouver) |