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English | Russian | Comments |
to be (all) the rage | быть в моде, очень популярным | Sport shoes are the rage now. |
to raise Cain/hell | шуметь, кричать | She raised hell when discovered the loss. |
to rat on someone | предавать | Police caught them red-handed because someone ratted on them. |
the rat race | суровая, жесткая конкуренция, борьба за успех, деньги, положение в обществе и т.п. | I'm so tired of the rat race called life. |
to smell a rat | чувствовать подвох | Everything looks fair and squaire but I smell a rat here. |
for real | настоящий, не поддельный | I don't think that Swiss watch for real could be so cheap. |
the real McCoy/Mackay | что-либо хорошего качества, настоящее (по сравнению с другими вещами такого же типа) | I have been in many so-called "Chineese restaurants" but this one is a real McCoy. |
on the rebound | от растроийства | He was drinking a lot on the rebound after he has lost his job. |
to repeat oneself | повторять | Our teacher never repeats himself. |
to strike it rich | становиться богатым, зарабатывать много денег | He really struk it reach by his new bestseller. |
English | Russian | Comments |
a dead ringer for someone or something | точная копия (кого-то, чего-то), очень похожий | I saw a woman yesterday who was a dead ringer for my music teacher. |
to have a ringside seat | занимать место откуда хорошо видно разворачивающиеся события | Since I was standing near the window I had a ringside seat and could observe the street. |
to ring off | бросать трубку (телефонную) | She explained damn all and rang off before I could ask a question. |
to ring true | выглядеть, звучать правдиво | The story doesn't ring true. |
to sell someone down the the river | предавать | The gangsters found that they had been sold down the river by one of their associates. |
to know the ropes | знать и понимать все тонкости | You should ask him, because he knows the ropes. |
to rope someone in | уговаривать, убеждать кого-либо принять участие в чем-либо | It was a hard nut to crack to rope him on our project. |
 
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