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| English | Russian |
| devil's advocate | адвокат дьяволa (someone who pretends, in an argument or discussion, to be against an idea or plan that a lot of people support, in order to make people discuss and consider it in more detail: I don't really believe all that – I was just playing devil's advocate.) |
| devil's advocate | человек, который защищает позицию, которой сам не обязательно придерживается (wikipedia.org Aiduza) |
| he found himself between the devil and the deep blue sea | он оказался между молотом и наковальней |