| English | Russian |
| fall flat on one's face | упасть плашмя (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| fall flat on one's face | упасть лицом вниз (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| flat on one's back | быть в затруднительном положении (Aslandado) |
| flat on one’s back | навзничь |
| flat on one's face | ничком |
| flat on one's face | плашмя (падать плашмя – fall flat on one's face Andrew Goff) |
| flat on top | с плоской вершиной (о холме и т.д. Abysslooker) |
| he fell flat on his back | он упал навзничь |
| he is flat on his back after a long succession of failures | постоянные неудачи положили его на обе лопатки |
| he stumbled and fell flat on his face | он споткнулся и упал ничком |
| Italian sixth chord on flat submediant | вводный секстаккорд к доминанте с пониженной терцией |
| keep one's emotions on a nice, flat line | сдерживать себя (VLZ_58) |
| knock flat on one's butt | утереть нос (Some of those demonstrators came to the base on Sunday, carrying Russian flags and cheering for the Russian forces. Among them were even a few retired officers of the Ukrainian military, including Viktor Davydenko, a colonel who served at the Perevalnoye base before retiring in 1995. The presence of these foreign troops doesn't bother me, he told TIME at the gates of the base where he once served Ukraine. They are doing their duty, preventing conflict and bloodshed in the Crimea. The Americans, said Davydenko, are just finishing up sowing chaos in Syria and have now turned their attention to the south of Ukraine. And wouldn't they just love to knock Russia flat on its butt on this land, he said. Sure they would. But is Russia supposed to stand back and let that happen? | TIME.com 4uzhoj) |
| on a flat surface | на ровном месте (During the last 3 years, the authors of this study have seen several cases with neck injuries on victims of free fall on a flat surface. VLZ_58) |
| Our flat is on the third floor | Наша квартира на третьем этаже > |
| run-on-flat | езда со спущенной шиной (Валерия 555) |
| she sings flat on the high notes | она фальшивит на высоких нотах |
| she sings flat on the high notes | она не дотягивает на высоких нотах |
| of a sick person to be flat on one’s back | лежать пластом |
