Russian Equivalent?

Alina Israeli aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Fri Sep 3 15:09:55 UTC 2010


Not as a cheer:

Пан или пропал.
Бежать так бежать.

Sep 2, 2010, в 12:19 PM, Krafcik, Patricia написал(а):

> Quick Question, Colleagues:
>
> My son's cross-country running friends at high school want to place  
> on their
> T-shirts the Russian equivalent of this phrase: "Go big or go home!"  
> meaning
> "Do it all the way or don't do it at all!" or something to this  
> effect. I've gotten
> suggestions from friends, but our efforts thus far seem simply too  
> literate,
> and not "slangy" enough. Is there some way to express this idea in  
> good Russian
> slang?
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
> Pat Krafcik
> The Evergreen State College
> krafcikp at evergreen.edu
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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