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| Russian | English |
| накрывать на месте преступления | catch red-handed |
| накрыть на месте преступления | catch red-handed |
| ставить на место | cut down (обыкн. "to cut down to size" Vadim Rouminsky) |
| топтаться на месте | mark time (She had met plenty of lazy professionals in her time, people content to mark time until retirement, but none of them had still been athletic in their mid forties.) |