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| Russian | English |
| возникнуть на пустом месте | arise from scratch (Our state did not arise from scratch. – Наше государство возникло не на пустом месте. Alex_Odeychuk) |
| много шума на пустом месте | all sizzle and no steak (Fyrvaktare) |
| на пустом месте | from the ground up (build practically from the ground up VLZ_58) |
| на пустом месте | out of whole cloth (VLZ_58) |
| построить на пустом месте | build from scratch (And since we're perfectionists, we build each and every grill from scratch – and we laser cut our grates in-house for heavy-duty reliability. • Renovations are more likely to discover unforeseen problems that were not detected before and require un-budgeted "change orders" to fix before proceeding. In other words, the cheaper renovation model could cost more money and time than the total "build from scratch". (burnabynow.com) ART Vancouver) |
| пустое место | couldn't organise a fart in a baked bean factory (VLZ_58) |
| пустое место | be worth a shit (VLZ_58) |