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| English | Russian |
| be completely caught off guard | совершенно внезапно быть застигнутым врасплох (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| I would have been better off | лучше бы я сделал что-л. (''I'd have been better off if I said long ago that I believe it was a man in a fur suit because I took so much ridicule about it.' (Bob Gimlin in an interview with The Seattle Post Intelligencer, 1985) ART Vancouver) |
| really caught me off guard | я не ожидал этого ("Yaletown had the warehouses, things sure have changed, eh." "Yaletown really caught me off guard! The transformations I've witnessed are mind-blowing, but I've learned to adapt and go with the flow." (Twitter) ART Vancouver) |
| straight off the ice | свежайший (igisheva) |
| swept off the shelves | смётать с прилавков (Alex_Odeychuk) |