| English | Russian |
| a case in point is | пример этого |
| be in for a long time | долго ждать (Try ordering a meal in this restaurant and you may be in for a long time. – придётся долго ждать ART Vancouver) |
| end up in a difficult situation | попасть в сложное положение (ART Vancouver) |
| end up in a difficult situation | попасть в трудное положение (ART Vancouver) |
| have a particular interest in | особо заинтересовать (модель требует изменения конструкции: Then, a sudden “strong rush of wind” hit the witness, while at the same time, a ramp was stretching to the ground from an opening in the craft. On the ramp, three humanoid “men” appeared, each wearing “shiny, silvery coveralls”. The witness heard the “men” speak an unknown language as they seemingly discussed his presence. He would recall how they seemed to have a particular interest in the horse. The account stops there, and while it doesn’t say what happened after that, we have to assume the witness vacated the area as soon as he could. -- проявили особый интерес к его лошади (ufoinsight.com) ART Vancouver) |
| have a particular interest in | проявить особый интерес к (Then, a sudden “strong rush of wind” hit the witness, while at the same time, a ramp was stretching to the ground from an opening in the craft. On the ramp, three humanoid “men” appeared, each wearing “shiny, silvery coveralls”. The witness heard the “men” speak an unknown language as they seemingly discussed his presence. He would recall how they seemed to have a particular interest in the horse. The account stops there, and while it doesn’t say what happened after that, we have to assume the witness vacated the area as soon as he could. -- проявили особый интерес к его лошади (ufoinsight.com) ART Vancouver) |
| haven't seen in a while | давненько не видели (We haven't seen temperatures like that in a while. ART Vancouver) |
| in a bind | в безвыходном положении (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| in a broader sense | в более широком смысле (ART Vancouver) |
| in a short amount of time | за короткое время (In a curious big cat case out of England, a woman spotted what some believe to be a dead puma on the side of a road and, when she later went back to get a look at the creature, it had mysteriously vanished. The disappearance of the suspected big cat was particularly weird as it occurred in such a short amount of time, which led Roberts to speculate that "I think someone's seen my post and they've taken the animal." -- случилось за такое короткое время, что (coasttocoastam.com) • It has been effective in eliciting a range of lexical aspect categories in a short amount of time. (Cambridge English Corpus) ART Vancouver) |
| in a stew | переживать притеснение (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| in a stew | переживать давление (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| in a tick | в два счёта (igisheva) |
| in a very few words | в нескольких словах (Moffitt explained the state of things in a very few words. ART Vancouver) |
| in a way you are lucky | в некотором смысле вам повезло |
| in a working order | в рабочем состоянии (MichaelBurov) |
| in a worst-case scenario | в самом худшем случае (In a worst-case scenario, a moderate earthquake on the Vancouver Island fault would create a potential tsunami that would impact not only Victoria but also Vancouver, Seattle, Bellingham, Olympia, and Tacoma.  dailyhive.com ART Vancouver) |
| it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience | такое бывает только раз в жизни (ART Vancouver) |
| like shooting fish in a barrel | без затруднений (Liv Bliss) |
| like shooting fish in a barrel | легко (Liv Bliss) |
| like shooting fish in a barrel | просто (Liv Bliss) |
| not a cloud in the sky | на небе ни облачка (Юрий Гомон) |
| once-in-a-lifetime | уникальнейший (“This find is truly a once-in-a-lifetime discovery—the sort of thing you read about in textbooks and not something you expect to see coming out of the ground in front of you,” says Mortimer in a statement. -- уникальнейшая находка smithsonianmag.com ART Vancouver) |
| one foot on a banana peel the other in the grave | при смерти |
| second day in a row | второй день подряд (Second day in a row one of our New West PD members has seized a replica handgun off a suspect. Cannot stress enough the risk in improperly carrying one of these things around. Police officers have little choice but to treat them as real until otherwise determined. (Twitter) ART Vancouver) |
| there is not a cloud in the sky | на небе ни облачка (Юрий Гомон) |
| times in a row | раз подряд (In one PK experiment they conducted at a Las Vegas casino, they attempted to roll dice to try to get a pair without getting a seven (seven should come up once in every six rolls by chance). "We had a lady roll 48 times in a row with no seven," he marveled. (coasttocoastam.com) ART Vancouver) |
