Translation of "садиться на мель" to English

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Dictionary translations for "садиться на мель"

садиться на мель verb Conjugation

run aground

Contexts with "садиться на мель"

Мы сели на мель We ran aground

Он взял за правило садиться на восьмичасовой автобус. He makes a point of taking the eight o'clock bus.

ЕС сел на мель два года назад, когда Франция и Нидерланды сказали "нет" европейской конституции. The EU ran aground two years ago when France and the Netherlands said no to the European constitution.

Кеа, как вы можете видеть, выглядят хищными, похожи на орлов, но это попугаи, они могут садиться на овец, клевать их и есть жир прямо из бедной овечки. Kea, which as you can see, look quite ravenous, they look almost like eagles, but they are parrots, would ride the sheep, peck at them and eat the fat off the poor sheep.

Мы только-только начали дело, и уже сели на мель. We're just barely out of the gate, and we're already dead in the water.

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