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| Russian | English |
| делать на авось | do at random |
| делать на авось | do at a venture |
| жить "на авось" | bluff one's way through life (The most common secret is a deep conviction of basic inadequacy—a feeling that one is basically incompetent, that one bluffs one’s way through life. (Irvin D. Yalom) adenisoff) |
| на авось | cross-your-finger mentality (triumfov) |
| на авось | in a haphazard way (Andrey Truhachev) |
| на авось | as luck would get it |
| на авось | hit-or-miss |
| на авось | in a happy-go-lucky fashion (Anglophile) |
| на авось | at random |
| на авось | on spec (DC) |
| на авось | as luck would have it |
| на авось | on the chance (that ... Anglophile) |
| на авось | hitty missy |
| на авось | by habnab |
| на авось | Hail Mary (any attempt with a small chance of success. New Oxford American Dictionary
: a Hail Mary plan  encyclopedia.com Alexander Demidov) |
| на авось | by guesswork |
| на авось | haphazardly (Andrey Truhachev) |
| на авось | hit or miss |
| на авось | on the off-chance |
| надеяться на авось | hope against hope (надеяться безосновательно denghu) |
| надеяться на авось | rely on a bit of luck (Кэт) |
| он действует на авось | he cares not which end goes forward |
| палить на авось | spray and pray (A term commonly used amongst FPS players, "Spray and Pray" refers to the practice of unloading your clip in the general direction of another player in the hopes that you'll hit them. Generally considered a good indicator that someone is a noob.: If you're new to Counter-Strike, just spray and pray. Actually aiming comes later. urbandictionary.com Alexander Demidov) |
| полагаться на авось | trust to luck |
| понадеяться на авось | rely on a bit of luck (Кэт) |
| попробовать на авось | chance it (из книги Палажченко "Мой несистематический словарь" YGA) |
| попытка на авось | Hail Mary (A plan or project with little chance of success. Oxford Dictionary of English: Nobody thought this was a 60-win team, mind you, but certainly a strong enough group to return to the playoffs without a Hail Mary deal. I can only imagine this was the perp's attempt at a Hail Mary to get key evidence thrown out. Alexander Demidov) |
| попытка на авось | pot-shot |
| сделанный на авось | random |
| стрелять на авось | fire at random |
| чинить что-либо на авось | jerry rig (driven) |