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| Subject | Russian | English |
| amer. | быть не промах в чём-л. | be no fly on the wall (You're no fly on the wall yourself Taras) |
| idiom. | промах есть промах | close, but no banana (Andrey Truhachev) |
| idiom. | промах есть промах | close, but no cigar (Andrey Truhachev) |
| proverb | промах есть промах | near enough is not good enough (Anglophile) |
| proverb | промах есть промах | a miss is as good as a mile (Anglophile) |