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Dictionary translations for "пустая отговорка"

пустая отговорка f noun Declension

pl. пустые отговорки

lame excuse

Contexts with "пустая отговорка"

В этом году такая отговорка не сработает: все (инвестиции, внешняя торговля, промышленное производство рынок труда) демонстрирует неблагоприятные тенденции. This year there is no such fallback: everything (investment, foreign trade, industrial production, the labor market) is simultaneously moving in the wrong direction.

Эта коробка пустая. В ней ничего нет. This box is empty. It has nothing in it.

Это всего лишь отговорка. This is just a pretense.

Пустая бочка больше всех гремит. An empty barrel makes the greatest sound.

Европа "двух скоростей" - не более чем отговорка для отказа большой тройки от идеи европейской интеграции. A "two-speed" Europe is, however, a euphemism for abandoning or opting out of European integration by Europe's big three.

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