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огорошить (Used literally, the phrase means that he knocked you down so that your buttocks hit the ground. John wasn't looking where he was going when he came around that corner. He ran right into me, and knocked me flat on my ass. Used figuratively, it means that what he did so surprised or shocked or impressed or startled you, that you might be expected to have such a reaction. I had no idea that Tony could speak any language besides English, but when he started speaking to Mr. Patel in Hindi, and then turned to Mr. Wong and repeated the conversation in Cantonese, he just knocked me flat on my ass! 4uzhoj) |
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утереть нос (Some of those demonstrators came to the base on Sunday, carrying Russian flags and cheering for the Russian forces. Among them were even a few retired officers of the Ukrainian military, including Viktor Davydenko, a colonel who served at the Perevalnoye base before retiring in 1995. The presence of these foreign troops doesn't bother me, he told TIME at the gates of the base where he once served Ukraine. They are doing their duty, preventing conflict and bloodshed in the Crimea. The Americans, said Davydenko, are just finishing up sowing chaos in Syria and have now turned their attention to the south of Ukraine. And wouldn't they just love to knock Russia flat on its butt on this land, he said. Sure they would. But is Russia supposed to stand back and let that happen? | TIME.com 4uzhoj) |
