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| English | Russian |
| crown of thorns | терновый венец |
| Glastonbury Thorn | Гластонберийские тернии (The one which flowers every Christmas in honour of Christ's birth) |
| thorn in the flesh | жало в плоть (An allusion to 2Cor: 12:7 (And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.) "Thorn in the flesh" is an expression for something that is painful and long-lasting.  wikipedia.org) |