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Idioms
[edit]- to be barely out of the starting blocks
- "In evolutionary terms this means the human race is barely out of the starting blocks compared with these venerable competitors" (some other species)
- to have/get the key of the street
- (from Dickens) to be left without logding; to be homeless;
- the first sod is turned on a $12 mn project; to turn the first sod on smth.
In Russian
[edit]- Играть в шашки на дороге