| English | Russian |
| don't do something you'll regret | не делайте то, о чём будете жалеть (Daily Telegraph Alex_Odeychuk) |
| don't fear growing old, son, you'll still be up to your old tricks, just a bit slower | не бойся старости, сынок, чудить будешь так же, просто медленнее (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| Give back the sausage, you fool, and we'll forget everything | Отдай колбасу, дурак, я всё прощу! |
| However much you change positions, my friends, you'll never make musicians | а вы, друзья, как ни садитесь, всё в музыканты не годитесь (Ivan Krylov, The Quartet. Transl. by Peter Tempest. The quotation is used with reference to persons who attribute their failure to some cause outside themselves. VLZ_58) |
| tell me who you go with and i'll tell you who you are | скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу тебе, кто ты |
| We will bury you | "Мы вас похороним" (знаменитая фраза Хрущёва, адресованная западным послам на приёме в польском посольстве в Москве 18 ноября 1956 года. Переводчиком на встрече был Виктор Суходрев. Фраза, вырванная из контекста западными СМИ, произвела ужасающее впечатление на жителей Запада. На самом деле полностью она звучала так: "Нравится вам или нет, но история на нашей стороне. Мы вас похороним". (Википедия): In 1956, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was translated as saying "We will bury you" to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow. The phrase was plastered across magazine covers and newspaper headlines, further cooling relations between the Soviet Union and the West. Yet when set in context, Khruschev's words were closer to meaning "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in". He was stating that Communism would outlast capitalism, which would destroy itself from within, referring to a passage in Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto that argued "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers." While not the most calming phrase he could have uttered, it was not the sabre-rattling threat that inflamed anti-Communists and raised the spectre of a nuclear attack in the minds of Americans. Khruschev himself clarified his statement – although not for several years. "I once said ‘We will bury you', and I got into trouble with it," he said during a 1963 speech in Yugoslavia. "Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."  bbc.com) |
| you'll just make yourself sick gulping down dust | замучаетесь пыль глотать (Or commented on the futility of trying to find Russian money in offshore accounts: Вы замучаетесь пыль глотать бегая по судам –You’ll just make yourself sick gulping down dust as you run from courtroom to courtroom.ВВП) |
