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| trial balloon; feeler; gambit; pilot ballon; overture; coup d'essai; tentative attempt (izet); toe in the water (ames Mills, a gallery manager at W.R. Harvey & Co. (Antiques) Ltd., which deals in English antique furniture, however, said his company had never had any links with Russia. "This is very much a toe in the water for us," he said, but Russia is a "new potential market." TMT Alexander Demidov); trail balloon | |||
| kite | |||
| trial balloon (проверка общественной реакции) | |||
| test run (Leonid Dzhepko) | |||
| ballon d'essai | |||
| trail balloon | |||
| pilot-balloon | |||
| balloon d'essai; messenger balloon; pilot balloon | |||
| test ball (ssn) | |||
| send up a trial balloon | |||
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| trial balloon (I. Havkin) | |||
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| A toe in the water (To put a toe in the water; This means in a very broad sense "test" to see whether it's worth exploring further. ZWern) | |||
| пробный шар: 30 phrases in 9 subjects |
| Business | 1 |
| Diplomacy | 3 |
| Figurative | 2 |
| Figure of speech | 1 |
| General | 10 |
| Idiomatic | 2 |
| Informal | 1 |
| Makarov | 4 |
| Mechanics | 6 |