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Terms for subject American usage, not spelling containing throw a curve | all forms | in specified order only
| English | Russian |
| throw a curve | вызвать удивление (They threw me a curve when they said that our department would be combined with yours.) |
| throw a curve | сделать неожиданный "сюрприз" (Mother Nature threw us a curve ball last winter with record-breaking amounts of snow. Val_Ships) |
| throw a curve | вызвать удивление (idiom; They threw me a curve when they said that our department would be combined with yours. Val_Ships) |
| throw someone a curve | сделать неожиданный поступок (The boss threw me a curve when he announced that I was getting a raise. Val_Ships) |
| throw a curve | преподнести "сюрприз" (idiom; Mother Nature threw us a curve ball last winter with record-breaking amounts of snow. Val_Ships) |
| throw a curve | преподнести неожиданный "сюрприз" (Val_Ships) |
| throw sb a curve | задать вопрос на засыпку (Anglophile) |