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| English | Russian |
| spin someone a line | вешать лапшу на уши (boggler) |
| spin someone a yarn | скормить историю (I spun him a yarn about going up to Hubble's place looking for some documentation, then I went up there and waited to see what would happen. 4uzhoj) |
| spin someone a yarn | наплести (что-нибудь кому-нибудь: That had been Hubble's plan. He'd said he would spin her some kind of a yarn and then try to settle things down. 4uzhoj) |
| spin a yarn | рассказывать историю (особенно долгую и/или неправдоподобную: My uncle is always spinning yarns about his childhood.) |
| spin a yarn | травить байку (Дмитрий_Р) |
| spin out of control | потерять контроль (над ситуацией Val_Ships) |
| spin out of control | принять непредвиденный оборот (Val_Ships) |
| spin out of control | принять непредсказуемый оборот (he did not want to wage a conventional war that could spin out of control Val_Ships) |
| spin straw into gold | добиваться успеха вопреки обстоятельствам (как героиня сказки "Румпельштильцхен" Linch) |
| spin the whole yarn | наплести с три короба (SergeiAstrashevsky) |
| spin yarns | рассказывать байки (ART Vancouver) |