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first steps; baby steps (часто в переносном смысле grafleonov) | |||
getting started (ssn); initial steps (ssn) | |||
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first base (к чему-либо); gambit (в предприятии, действии); the thin end of the wedge (к чему-либо); the initiatory step; first (к чему-либо); A toe in the water (To put a toe in the water ZWern); preliminary; lead (в деле); the first plunge | |||
gambit (в предложении, действии и т.п.) | |||
opening salvo (в политической и др. борьбе; the first in a series of questions, statements etc that you use to try to win an argument: The newspaper article was the opening salvo in what proved to be a long battle. • Congressman Saunders fired the opening salvo during a heated debate on capital punishment. • Clinton fired the opening salvo last month when he included tax cuts in his proposed 1997 budget. • Lunar fired the opening salvo last month when it filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. 4uzhoj) | |||
initiative | |||
stepping stone (jouris-t) | |||
the thin end of the wedge (к чему-либо) | |||
first step (к чему-либо ssn); initial step (ssn) | |||
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early lunatic adapter phase (Alexsword92) |
первые шаги: 122 phrases in 27 subjects |
American usage, not spelling | 2 |
Basketball | 2 |
Business | 2 |
Cliche / convention | 1 |
Computer networks | 2 |
Diplomacy | 1 |
Econometrics | 1 |
Economy | 1 |
Energy industry | 1 |
Figurative | 1 |
General | 44 |
Historical | 1 |
Idiomatic | 9 |
Informal | 5 |
Information technology | 1 |
Internet | 2 |
Makarov | 18 |
Mathematics | 2 |
Military | 1 |
Oil and gas | 1 |
Politics | 1 |
Programming | 14 |
Proverb | 3 |
Rhetoric | 2 |
Scientific | 2 |
Slang | 1 |
Trade unions | 1 |