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| Russian | English |
| кормить байками | feed fables from hand (Taras) |
| рассказывать байки | turn loose one's yarn (VLZ_58) |
| рассказывать байки | tell a yarn (по-русски обычно во множ. числе: "If you say so," I said. "But I don't see why Menendez would bother to come up here and tell me a yarn and warn me to keep my nose clean on account of Lennox was a pal of him and Randy Starr in Vegas and they didn't want anybody fooling around." (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver) |
| рассказывать байки | give someone a song and dance ("Having stray broads call me up and give me a song and dance so you can say they said they recognized my voice somewhere sometime." "The girl's name is Gladys Crane," Breeze said. "So she told me. I never heard of her." (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver) |
| рассказывать байки | spin yarns (ART Vancouver) |
| травить байку | spin a yarn (Дмитрий_Р) |