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затея nstresses
gen. plan; invention; freak; diversion; trick; contrivance; device; thought; artifice; enterprise (scherfas); practical joke; contract; scheme (Mosley Leigh); undertaking; endeavour (visitor); venture (Mosley Leigh); affair (scherfas); business (sever_korrespondent); endeavor (Am. Andrey Truhachev); proposition (Andrey Truhachev); project (Nrml Kss); attempt (sankozh); contriving; devise; knack; pleasantry; plot; game
Gruzovik idea; intention; piece of fun; amusement; escapade
obs. contrivement
slang kid
затеи n
gen. freakishness
Gruzovik, lit. conceit
Gruzovik, obs. embellishment; ornament
inf. shenanigans (Liv Bliss)
obs., lit. conceit
slang monkeyshines
затеять v
gen. start; undertake; conceive; resolve; brew (drink as you have brewed – что посеешь, то и пожнешь); contrive; meditate; plan; stir up
Игорь Миг mastermind; nurture a plan; be out to; embark on
Gruzovik, inf. organize (pf of затевать); venture (pf of затевать)
inf. engineer; cook up e.g., a scheme, a plot (Liv Bliss); launch; decide (with inf., to); make up one's mind (to)
затеяться v
Gruzovik, inf. be started (pf of затеваться); be proposed (pf of затеваться); be intended (pf of затеваться)
inf. start; be afoot; organize; undertake; venture
затей: 159 phrases in 14 subjects
American usage, not spelling1
Chess2
Diplomacy5
Disapproving2
Figurative1
General91
Idiomatic2
Informal13
Labor organization1
Makarov32
Mass media3
Rhetoric1
Scientific2
Slang3

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