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| the gloves came off | они развязали нам руки (Earlier that year, President Bush declared that the Geneva conventions do not protect Taliban and al-Qaida suspects in US custody. "After 9/11," as the CIA's then counterterror chief Cofer Black infamously put it, "the gloves came off." 4uzhoj) |
| the gloves must be knocking about the room somewhere | перчатки, должно быть, валяются где-то в комнате |