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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | нарочно не придумаешь | you couldn't make it up! (Рина Грант) |
| brit. | Нарочно не придумаешь! | you couldn't make it up! (Said in reference to something too astonishing to be believed: ‘it is so ridiculous, you couldn't make it up' Bullfinch) |
| euph. | нарочно не придумаешь | you can't make this shit up (Decider) |
| saying. | нарочно не придумаешь | you can't make this stuff up (Баян) |
| cliche. | нарочно не придумаешь | you just can't make this stuff up (Civil servants using a government credit card to pay for their meals at Hooters? Wow! You just can't make this stuff up! ART Vancouver) |
| cliche. | нарочно не придумаешь | can't make that up (The millionaire claimed the bribes he had paid for his two sons' admission as donations to a charity helping low-income kids to pay for their higher education. Can't make that up! ART Vancouver) |
| cliche. | нарочно не придумаешь | you can't make some of this stuff up, can you? (a listener's reaction ART Vancouver) |
| cliche. | нарочно не придумаешь | can't make it up (Can't make it up. A cop pulled over a driver today on West Broadway at Cambie. This guy had an iPad and a cell phone attached with a piece of string to his steering wheel, he was wearing headphones and listening to music while driving his Lexus, the headphones were plugged into the phone, and he didn't even have his driver's licence! I think they should put him in jail. (Twitter) ART Vancouver) |
| saying. | нарочно не придумаешь | can't make this up (Баян) |
| saying. | нарочно не придумаешь | you can't make this up (Баян) |
| proverb | нарочно не придумаешь | truth is stranger than fiction (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| gen. | нарочно не придумаешь! | this is quite something (Anglophile) |
| inf. | такое нарочно не придумаешь | you can't write this stuff (SirReal) |