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| Russian | English |
| начать разговор | spark conversation (Bartek2001) |
| начать разговор | start the ball rolling |
| начать разговор издалека | take a roundabout approach to the subject (Anglophile) |
| начать разговор с кем-либо, кого встречаете впервые | break the ice with (someone Aslandado) |
| начать разговор о чём-либо | your argument has not a leg to stand on start a subject |
| начать разговор о чём-либо | start a subject |
| первым начать разговор | strike up a conversation ("And then on the same night, when we came back, we were on the same SeaBus again," says Stefan, "and this time there were a lot less people so it was really easy to pick her out and, and definitely was a lot of eye contact between the two of us." Still, neither were quite ready to strike up a conversation.  translink.ca ART Vancouver) |