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| English | Russian |
| find a common language with | находить общий язык с кем (someone) |
| I can't find a common language with you | я ему про Фому, а он про Ерёму (used (often: ironically or angrily) to point to someone's strange behavior which is an attempt not to speak on a certain (raised) topic and speak about something quite different instead) |
| I can't find a common language with you | ты ему про Фому, а он про Ерёму (used (often: ironically or angrily) to point to someone's strange behavior which is an attempt not to speak on a certain (raised) topic and speak about something quite different instead) |
| I can't find a common language with you | ей про Фому, а она про Ерёму (used (often: ironically or angrily) to point to someone's strange behavior which is an attempt not to speak on a certain (raised) topic and speak about something quite different instead) |
| two great nations divided by a common language | две великие нации, разделённые общим языком (O. Wilde; О. Уайльд о народах Англии и США) |