Пробный шар – angielski tłumaczenie

A toe in the water (To put a toe in the water; This means in a very broad sense "test" to see whether it's worth exploring further. ZWern)

пробный шар

posp.

trial balloon; feeler; gambit; pilot ballon; overture; coup d'essai; tentative attempt (izet); toe in the water (ames Mills, a gallery manager at W.R. Harvey & Co. (Antiques) Ltd., which deals in English antique furniture, however, said his company had never had any links with Russia. "This is very much a toe in the water for us," he said, but Russia is a "new potential market." TMT Alexander Demidov); trail balloon

bizn.

kite

dypl.

trial balloon (проверка общественной реакции)

figur.

test run (Leonid Dzhepko)