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| English | Russian |
| allow sth., someone to get uppermost | отдаться во власть чего-л., кого-л. ("To this, Boko had rather cleverly replied by saying that it was far more likely to have been young Edwin who had done the horrid deed. There comes a moment, he had pointed out, in the life of every Boy Scout when he suddenly feels fed up with doing acts of kindness and allows his human side to get uppermost." (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) |
| come uppermost | возобладать ("(...) was also a fathead, and now, when he had victory in his grasp, the fatheaded streak in him came uppermost." (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) |