| Russian | English |
| надувать щёки | talk a big game (VLZ_58) |
| подставить вторую щёку | turn the other cheek (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| уписывать за обе щеки | eat like a wolf (Anglophile) |
| уписывать за обе щеки | wrap oneself round (some food • One gazes at the Right Hon. wrapping himself round the salmon mayonnaise at lunch, and he seems a man without a care in the world. Yet all the while a dreadful fate is hanging over him, creeping nearer and nearer. (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) |
| уписывать за обе щеки | eat like a horse (Anglophile) |
| уписывать за обе щеки | stuff oneself to the eyebrows ("The child stuffed himself to the eyebrows and got more and more amiable (…)" (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) |