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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | все оказалось напрасно! | All the trouble was wasted! (But you wouldn't let me go to the picnic after all, so all my trouble was wasted. Wakeful dormouse) |
| Makarov. | вся наша работа оказалась напрасной | all our work was in vain |
| Makarov. | его страхи оказались напрасными | his fears proved groundless |
| gen. | мои надежды оказались напрасными | my hopes have been falsified |
| gen. | мои страхи оказались напрасными | my fears have been falsified |
| slang | оказаться напрасным | come to nothing |
| explan. | оказаться напрасным | go down the drain |
| explan. | оказаться напрасным | go down the tubes (I tried, but it all went down the tubes.) |
| idiom. | оказаться напрасным | turn hollow (Alexey Lebedev) |
| inf. | оказаться напрасным | go down the toilet |
| gen. | оказаться напрасным | prove unfounded (об опасениях // In the end, Legras’ not unreasonable fears that Ablyazov, who was rumoured to have a private militia and would defend himself to the death in some kind of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid shootout, proved unfounded. 4uzhoj) |