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| Russian | English |
| карты и в острог и в могилу сведут | cards are the devil's books |
| начал за здравие, а свёл за упокой | it's like a skeleton at the feast о you started speaking with delight and finished with a sorry sight! (said about discrepancy between good beginning (e.g., good news, promising situation, words) and bad ending (e.g., later news, one's deeds)) |
| нужда сведёт человека с кем угодно | adversity makes strange bedfellows |
| свести к нулю | bring to nought |
| свести концы с концами | make both ends meet |
| свести на нет | bring to nought |
| свести с ума | carry away |
| чужая печаль с ума свела, а по своей потужить некому | he is a fool that forgets himself (дословно: Тот дурак, кто о себе не помнит) |
| чужая печаль с ума свела, а по своей тужить некому | he is a fool that forgets himself |