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| English | Russian |
| begin to brake | затормозить |
| brake a fall | замедлить падение (Technical) |
| brake a fall | смягчить падение (Technical; Just a warning: this is OK only if the audience will be in on the pun (break / brake) Liv Bliss) |
| brake bad | пуститься во все тяжкие ( Generally used when someone who previously followed rules and regulations begins to deviate from them to achieve new goals/desires. The term is most often used when someone who is generally accepted as "good" adapts behaviors which are seen as "bad". – Walt broke bad when he was diagnosed with cancer; to reject social norms for one's own gain or amusement. To give up on the typical moral and social norm and go one's own path, regardless of the legality or ethics – Are you really ready to break bad, bitch? Dominator_Salvator) |
| brake slightly | подтормаживаться |
| brake slightly | подтормаживать (impf of подтормозить) |
| ease up on the brake | отпустить тормоз (He struggled with the batch of yellow paper under his arm, got it straightened out, and nodded to me. I watched him heave open the door and go on in. I eased up on the brake and the Olds slid out from the white curb, and that was the last I saw of Howard Spencer. (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver) |
| Egyptian brake pedal | клаксон (Wakeful dormouse) |
| Mexican brake pedal | клаксон (Wakeful dormouse) |
| pump the brakes | притормозить (Beforeyouaccuseme) |
| pump the brakes | сбавить темп (Beforeyouaccuseme) |
| pump the brakes | притормаживать (перен. Taras) |
| put the brakes on | тормознуть |
| put the brakes on | тормознуть |
| put the brakes on | притормозить (что-либо Dyatlova Natalia) |
| slam on the brakes | дать по тормозам (Tamerlane) |
| slam the brakes | бить по тормозам (When you slam the brakes with an ABS, especially in icy conditions, the brakes don't fully activate. 4uzhoj) |
| tap the brakes | сбавить скорость (автомобиля: "Whoa! That SUV didn't even tap the brakes!"; в переносном смысле означает: "не будем торопиться в нашей беседе", "let's slow down here for a moment": "Let's tap the brakes here for a moment and try to remember what you did on the evening of May 29, between 7 and 9?" ART Vancouver) |