Treading water
Tatyana Buzina
tbuzina at YANDEX.RU
Sun Jun 18 18:46:54 UTC 2006
Hello,
check this:
http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?HL=2&L1=1&L2=2&EXT=0&s=tread+water
It's not the best ever dictionary, but sometimes it comes in very handy.
Regards,
Tatyana
>Dear colleagues,
>
>Is there an equivalent in Russian for "to tread water" in the literal
>sense of being able to stay afloat in water? (I'm less interested in
>it's figurative meaning of "barely/managing" in some pursuit or
>other). None of my dictionaries seem to think so...
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Janneke
>
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Tatyana V. Buzina,
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Dpt. of European Languages,
Institute for Linguistics,
Russian State U for the Humanities
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