| English | Russian |
| a fly-by-night operation | шарашкина контора (сомнительное заведение, предприятие и т. п. a dubious enterprise run by incompetent, unqualified or unscrupulous people) |
| fly-by-night operation | лохотрон (сомнительное заведение, предприятие и т. п. a dubious enterprise run by incompetent, unqualified or unscrupulous people) |
| mop-up operation | марафет (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| mop-up operation | ПХД (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| special operations soldier | спецназер (Anglophile) |