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Subject: отбывать номер gen. Please help to translate.<отбывать номер> Phrase is used in the following sentence:<(футболист не играл, а отбывал номер>Thanks in advance
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отбИвал. was acting/dancing but not playing the game. |
| отбывать номер mail it in - v. phr. to perform in a cursory or sub-standard manner. |
| also: he was slacking |
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option: The player was doing his time [on the pitch], rather than play a game of [football, etc.], imho |
| The player was faking it instead of playing for real, imho |
| mail it in годится по обе стороны Атлантики? Это вроде их какого-то штатовского фильма |
| also: his presence was nominal |
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Контекст: [приехала звезда футбола играть за сборную}, и дурака валяет футболист Или приехал в Москву в 1979 Марсель Дионн и отбывал номер, забив всего гол за турнир. |
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