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A toe in the water (To put a toe in the water; This means in a very broad sense "test" to see whether it's worth exploring further. ZWern) | |||
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trial balloon; feeler; gambit; pilot ballon; overture; coup d'essai; tentative attempt (izet); toe in the water (ames Mills, a gallery manager at W.R. Harvey & Co. (Antiques) Ltd., which deals in English antique furniture, however, said his company had never had any links with Russia. "This is very much a toe in the water for us," he said, but Russia is a "new potential market." TMT Alexander Demidov); trail balloon | |||
kite | |||
trial balloon (проверка общественной реакции) | |||
test run (Leonid Dzhepko) | |||
ballon d'essai | |||
trail balloon | |||
pilot-balloon | |||
balloon d'essai; messenger balloon; pilot balloon | |||
test ball (ssn) | |||
send up a trial balloon | |||
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trial balloon (I. Havkin) |
Пробный шар : 30 phrases in 9 subjects |
Business | 1 |
Diplomacy | 3 |
Figurative | 2 |
Figure of speech | 1 |
General | 10 |
Idiomatic | 2 |
Informal | 1 |
Makarov | 4 |
Mechanics | 6 |