- to level with someone = to tell someone the truth about something (informal)
- быть честным с кем-то/говорить начистоту
[Nobody Wants This, 2025]

- oscillation = repeated movement from one position to another
- колебание
[Sherlock, 2014]

- tramp stamp = a tattoo on a woman's lower back, stereotypically said to label her as promiscuous (derogatory, slang)
- татуировка на пояснице (букв.: клеймо шлюхи)
[Nobody Wants This, 2025]

- bubkes/bupkis/bupkus = nothing, or only a very small amount
- ни шиша/ни черта/кукиш
[Pluribus, 2025]

🐐 пришло из идиша (вероятно, сокращение от kozebubkes, что значит «козий помет»)

- Ponzi scheme/pyramid scheme = a way of deceiving investors by using the money they give to pay interest to existing customers rather than investing it
- финансовая пирамида
[Nobody Wants This, 2025]

🤹‍♂️ Чарльз Понци — аферист, создавший одну из самых хитроумных и оригинальных финансовых пирамид

- low-tar = (of cigarettes) containing less tar than average
- лёгкие сигареты
[Sherlock, 2014]

🚬 tar — смола

- like two peas in a pod = very similar, especially in appearance
- как две капли воды/два сапога пара/одного поля ягода
[Nobody Wants This, 2025]

🫛 букв.: как две горошины в стручке

- to pivot (to) = to avoid talking about something by talking about something else
- сменить тему/съехать на другую тему
[Emily In Paris, 2025]

- flophouse = a cheap, usually dirty, hotel
- клоповник
[If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, 2025]

- to nitpick = to find faults in details that are not important
- придираться/цепляться к мелочам
[One Battle After Another, 2025]

- to walk on eggshells = to be very careful not to offend or upset someone
- ходить на цыпочках/осторожничать/быть очень деликатным
[Emily In Paris, 2025]

🥚 букв.: ходить по скорлупе

- duh = used to show that you think a person or statement is stupid, or that something is obvious
- да неужели/а то/да что вы/ещё бы/прикинь/ясен пень etc.
[If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, 2025]

- contingency plan = a plan that is made for dealing with an emergency, or with something that might possibly happen and cause problems in the future
- запасной план/план на случай непредвиденных обстоятельств
[Emily In Paris, 2025]

- to take a leaf out of someone's book = to copy something that someone else does because it will bring you advantages
- брать пример с кого-либо/подражать
[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998]

- (from) soup to nuts = from the beginning to the end; including everything
- от начала и до конца
[The Housemaid, 2025]

🌰 связано с традицией американских формальных обедов XIX века, где трапеза начиналась с супа, а завершалась подачей орехов на десерт

- in for a penny, in for a pound = since you have started something or are involved in it, you should complete the work although it has become more difficult or complicated than you had expected
- сказал «а», говори и «б»/взялся за гуж, не говори, что не дюж/заварил кашу, не жалей масла
[Pluribus, 2025]

- tipsy = slightly drunk
- подвыпивший/навеселе/поддатый/подшофе
[Emily In Paris, 2025]

- like it's going out of fashion/style - if you use something like it's going out of fashion, you use large amounts of it very quickly
- будто завтра конец света/как в последний раз/как не в себя/в промышленных масштабах/как сумасшедший
[Pluribus, 2025]

- hit-and-run = a road accident in which the driver who caused the accident drives away without helping the other people involved and without telling the police
- бегство водителя с места происшествия
[Nobody Wants This, 2025]

- to guzzle = to drink quickly, eagerly, and usually in large amounts
- выдуть/жадно выпить/хлестать/глушить
[Emily In Paris, 2025]

- on the shelf - if someone, usually a woman, is on the shelf, she is not married and is considered too old for anyone to want to marry her
- в девках/в статусе старой девы
[Bridgerton, 2026]