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| Subject | Russian | English |
| Игорь Миг | выступать не по бумажке | speak off the cuff (As the lawyers say, you can make a case that he meant something else. Besides, to be fair, he was speaking off the cuff. People get tired, they misspeak, they use the wrong word, they call their wife by the name of their daughter or say they are going to Brazil when they mean Brazaville. -– mberdy.US.17) |
| Игорь Миг | говорить не по бумажке | speak off the cuff |
| Игорь Миг | не по бумажке | off the cuff (As the lawyers say, you can make a case that he meant something else. Besides, to be fair, he was speaking off the cuff. People get tired, they misspeak, they use the wrong word, they call their wife by the name of their daughter or say they are going to Brazil when they mean Brazaville. -– mberdy.US.17) |