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| Russian | English |
| морочить голову | fill someone's head with nonsense (george serebryakov) |
| морочить голову | not make sense (It's super frustrating when you're talking to a customer service person and they're not making sense! All I'm asking is why my phone bill has gone up from $134 a month to $189 and no one can explain it. They're saying the same things to me over and over again and it's gibberish! – они морочат мне голову ART Vancouver) |
| морочить голову | give sb. the runaround (to fail to give someone information or help that he or she needs by not answering questions or by not dealing with the problem directly (Merriam-Webster) | to deliberately avoid giving someone a definite answer, especially when they are asking you to do something (Longman) -- о действиях чиновников, бюрократов: Their customer representatives keep giving me the runaround. • Every time we ask the landlord about fixing the roof, he gives us the runaround. ART Vancouver) |
| морочить голову | give someone a song and dance ("I guess now we can do some business together." "Not that way," I said. "Huh?" He bent his eyebrows together. (...) "Having stray broads call me up and give me a song and dance so you can say they said they recognized my voice somewhere sometime." (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver) |
| морочить голову | lead someone down the garden path (Mira_G) |
| морочить голову | lead someone up the garden path (Mira_G) |