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not hold water (it won't hold water – это не выдерживает никакой критики) |
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doesn't stand up to scrutiny (segu); there is no defense for something (что-либо; There is no defense for such punctuation as...) |
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does not hold water (1) This argument just does not hold water. 2) It is a theory that has been argued about for ages, and connections between between Finnish and Japanese have been investigated for ages. None of them hold water. There is no connection between Finnish and Japanese, at least none that we can ever determine using scientific methods. ART Vancouver) |
