A dark night is a thief's mother. Бу́детдень, бу́детиночь. There're good times and bad times. literal There will be the day, there will be the night. Other forms of the word (declensions):Case Singular Plural Nominative но́чь но́чи Genitive...
While we were out for a picnic, our house's lock was picked by a thief. The lock itself is a normal cylinder lock so it doesn't automatically lock when you shut the door. Hey, when do the dorms lock up? "9 o'clock" "Whoops, if we don't run we won't make it!" Management ...
His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pit (Котлован) and Chevengur (Чевенгур) New York Review Books reissued a collection of Platonov's word including the novella Soul (Dzhan), the short story The Return, and six other stories in 2007. This was followed ...
He managed to stuff all his dirty clothes into the wardrobe before his mother came into the room. I’ve left some of my stuff at my parents’ home because there wasn’t room for everything in my new flat. English word "вещи"(stuff) occurs in sets:TOP Words. Part 2other...
Ворупотакать -- чтосамомуворовать.The receiver is as bad as the thief. Вотвчёмзагво́здка.That's where the shoe pinches; That's the crux. Literal:That's the snag! Вотгдесоба́казары́та.That's where...
“Cops, the economic security squad. It’s enough for the word to come down from the district office to grab him. Vasya is a respected person. He’s a thief.” “And me?” “You’re an enemy of the state. If the neighborhood cops can decide to arrest Vasya, the Secret Chamber, ...
Happy holidays everyone, as Robot Chicken joins Santa for the one Christmas he'll never forget. The north pole elves dream of the toys of holidays past. Krampus puts in a good word for the coal industry. St. Nick meets his idol: Jared Leto. ...
penal colony. Lenin is held by many criminals to be the chiefpakhan(boss) of the Communist Party. The letters BOP, which are sometimes tattooed under his image, carry a double meaning. The acronym stands for ‘Leader of the October Revolution’ but also spells the Russian word VOR (thief...
In general, stars, often more than a standard five-pointed star, are a symbol of freedom for Russian criminals. However, the meaning of this popular criminal tattoo varies depending on the part of the body it is placed on. Stars on the shoulders point at a thief-in-law; stars in the ...
“Now thou shalt be with me in paradise,” and so forth. The Russian opposition, for as long as I’ve been watching it, wants to get to democracy approximately the same way the thief gets to paradise — by believing in it. The notion that we are democrats and decent because we ...