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• Снимать сливки (imperf.)
[sni-mat' slif-ki]
SLT: To remove/take off the cream
Meaning:
This idiom means to take the best or most profitable part of something, leaving the less desirable parts behind.
English Equivalent:
To get the best of something, to skim the cream
Example:
• Владельцы кафе, удачно выбрав локацию и концепцию, сняли сливки, собирая огромные чеки.
The café owners, having successfully chosen the location and concept, skimmed the cream, raking in huge checks.
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• Сливки общества (plural noun)
[slif-ki op-shchis-tva]
The top of the society, social elite
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- Κаждый нeмeц, пусть он чeрeз сто лeт родится дажe, кaждый нeмeц нaм дoлжeн.
- Ηу дa, зa тo, чтo oни у нaс тут сделaли…
- Сoвсем нет. Они нaм дoлжны не за тo, чтo oни у наc cдeлали. Они дoлжны за тo, чтo мы у них нe cдeлали.
- Every German, even if he’s born a hundred years from now, owes us. Every single German.
- Well, yes, for what they did to us here…
- Not at all. They don’t owe us for what they did to us. They owe us for what we didn’t do to them.
📙 This is a quote from Эдуард Веркин Облачный полк (2012) (The Cloud Regiment), a simple yet terrifying book about the everyday life of a partisan detachment, seen from our time. A war without embellishment, without falsehood, and without a polished gloss.
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