Sentence examples of "потух" in Russian
Его фонарь потух, потому что он пробыл в шахте почти неделю, прежде чем мы смогли до него добраться.
Light went out in his lamp 'cause he was down there damn near a week before we could get to him.
пусть лучше потухнет свет, чем сгорит весь дом.
better that the lights go out than that the house burn down.
Утверждение, что солнце потухнет в следующий вторник, легко проверяется.
Any crank claiming the sun will go out next Tuesday has got a testable prediction.
Как сказал один эксперт, право вето постоянного члена должно было выполнять функцию предохранителя в электрической системе: пусть лучше потухнет свет, чем сгорит весь дом.
As one expert put it, its permanent members’ veto was designed to be like a fuse box in an electrical system: better that the lights go out than that the house burn down.
Самовар кипел с восьми часов, но потух, как и всё в мире.
The samovar was boiling with eight hours, but died out, like everything else in the world.
Но когда развивающиеся страны показали пальцем на секретные банковские счета и хеджевые фонды, энтузиазм МВФ и Соединенных Штатов по поводу большей прозрачности потух.
But when developing countries pointed their fingers at secret bank accounts and hedge funds, IMF and US enthusiasm for greater transparency diminished.
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