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Russian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- IPA(key): (phonetic respelling: кли́ном сойдти́сь)
Verb
кли́ном сойти́сь • (klínom sojtísʹ) pf (imperfective кли́ном сходи́ться)
- (figurative) to be pivotal, to be caught in a cleft stick, to be in dire straits
1961 [1733], Pierre de Marivaux, translated by Ariadna Èfron, L'heureux stratagème, Moscow: Государственное книгоиздательство «Искусство», Act 1, Scene 4:По их мнению, весь белый свет для нас должен клином сойтись на одном-единственном человеке: все прочие точно не существуют, как будто они умерли.- Po ix mneniju, vesʹ belyj svet dlja nas dolžen klinom sojtisʹ na odnom-jedinstvennom čeloveke: vse pročije točno ne suščestvujut, kak budto oni umerli.
- In their view, all the world should hinge on but one man: everyone else does not exist, as though dead.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
клином сойтись: see
сойти́сь