| English | Russian |
| don't say, I'll never drink of this water, how dirty soever it be | от сумы да от тюрьмы не отрекайся |
| don't say, I'll never drink of this water, how dirty soever it be | от сумы да от тюрьмы не зарекайся |
| don't say, I'll never drink of this water, how dirty soever it be | от сумы и от тюрьмы не зарекайся |
| dot your i's and cross your t's | ставить точки над i |
| dot your i's and cross your t's | замах хуже удара |
| dot your i's and cross your t's | начал говорить, так договаривай (дословно: Поставь точки над i и чёрточки на t (т.е. уточни свои слова, договаривай до конца)) |
| dot your i's and cross your t's | начал говорить, так договаривай |
| dot your i's and cross your t's | поставить все точки над i (дословно: Поставь точки над i и чёрточки на t (т.е. уточни свои слова, договаривай до конца)) |
| for friends like you, there's nothing I won't do | для милого дружка и серёжку из ушка |
| for friends like you, there's nothing I won't do | для милого дружка и серёжка из ушка |
| had I known where I would fall I wouldn't have come to that place at all | кабы знал, где упасть, так соломки бы подстелил подостлал |
| had I known where I would fall I wouldn't have come to that place at all | кабы знал, где упасть, так соломки бы подостлал |
| had I known where I would fall I wouldn't have come to that place at all | кабы знал, где упасть, соломки бы подстелил |
| 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 | 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 | 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) |
| I can't find a common tongue with you | ей про Фому, а она про Ерёму |
| I can't find a common tongue with you | я ему про Фому, а он про Ерёму |
| I can't find a common tongue with you | ты ему про Фому, а он про Ерёму |
| I can't find a common tongue with you | дед про юшку, баба про петрушку (alexandra11) |
| I don't know him from Adam. | я его никогда в глаза не видал. |
| I simply can't think | ума не приложу (usu. in a compl. sent.; understand, imagine) |
| I'm not to blame, for I wasn't game | я не я, и лошадь не моя, и я не извозчик |
| I'm not to blame, for I wasn't game | я не я, и лошадь не моя |
| it's my own problems I can't solve at all | чужую беду руками разведу (а к своей ума не приложу) |
