| Russian | English |
| и палец о палец больше не ударив | without lifting a finger ever again (см.  stackexchange.com Alex_Odeychuk) |
| и пальца о палец не ударить | not do a stroke of work (4uzhoj) |
| не ударить палец о палец | not to lift a finger (Баян) |
| палец о палец не ударить | not do a thing |
| палец о палец не ударить | not move a finger |
| палец о палец не ударить | not move one's hand (to do something: When freedom fighters of Hungary revolted against the Russians, we didn't move a hand to help them.) |
| палец о палец не ударить | not do a hand's turn (to do something: Jonah is not up on deck helping to hold the rudder, or to set a sail, or to do anything, not even a hand's turn to help the poor laboring vessel.) |
| палец о палец не ударить | not move one's foot (to do something: Anne's father, the wealthy 4th Earl of Mexborough could have paid the amount demanded, but, according to the Marquise, the earl was "heartily sick of his German son-in-law and [was] not inclined to move a foot to help him.") |
| палец о палец не ударить | not do a stroke (of work) |
| палец о палец не ударить | sit on one's hands |
| палец о палец не ударить | not raise a finger |
| палец о палец не ударить | not lift a finger |
| палец о палец не ударить | not do a stroke of work (В.И.Макаров) |
| палец о палец не ударить | not do a day's-work (В.И.Макаров) |
| палец о палец не ударить | not stir a finger (to do something) |
| пальцем о палец не ударить | not do a stroke of work (to not do any work at all; тж. never do a stroke of work: Now that Jim's retired, he just spends all day on the couch watching television. He won't do a stroke of work around the house!; I'm going to have a long night ahead with this term paper, as I haven't done a stroke up till now Taras) |
| пальцем о палец не ударить | sit on one's hands (z484z) |
