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| be born with a caul | родиться в рубашке (on one's head: ‘And I was born wi' a caul, and perhaps can be no more ruined than drowned?’ Christian added... – Да и я ведь в рубашке родился. Значит, я не могу ни утонуть, ни разориться? – спросил Кристиан... (Th. Hardy. ‘The Return of the Native’, book III, ch. VII Taras) |