| English | Russian |
| A likely story! | так я тебе и поверил! ("Is one to have no privacy, Glossop?" I said coldly. "I instructed Jeeves to lock the door because I was about to disrobe." "A likely story!" said Tuppy, and I'm not sure he didn't add "Forsooth!" "You needn't try to make me believe that you're afraid people are going to run excursion trains to see you in your underwear." (P.G. Wodehouse)) |
| A likely story! | так я вам и поверил! |
| long story short | короче говоря (My ex-wife when we were married didn't like my cat because it didn't like her very much. Cat threw up on the couch and even though I cleaned it up she threw the cat out for the night and wouldn't let me let her back in. Cat disappeared. There were coyotes in our neighborhood. Long story short, bitch killed the cat. (Twitter) ART Vancouver) |
| make long story short | короче говоря |
| stand by one's story | стоять на своём (Undeterred, the woman claims that the footage is genuine, and at any rate, stands by her story. ART Vancouver) |
| that is another story | это другой вопрос (igisheva) |
| that is another story | это отдельная тема (igisheva) |
| that is another story | это отдельный вопрос (igisheva) |
| that is another story | это отдельная история (igisheva) |
| that is another story | это другая тема (igisheva) |
| that is another story | это другая история (igisheva) |
| the story goes that | согласно преданию (The story goes that Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur’s knights of the round table was challenged to a fight by a Knight all dressed in green including his horse. The Green knight invited Sir Gawain to take a swing at him with his sword, this resulted in the Green knight losing his head, which he then promptly picked up off the floor, he then issued a request for Sir Gawain to meet him in a year and a day at the Green Chapel ...  wordpress.com ART Vancouver) |
| you have missed the point of the story | вы не поняли сути рассказа |
