отвертеться

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Verb

отверте́ться (otvertétʹsjapf (imperfective отвёртываться or отвора́чиваться)

  1. to come unscrewed
  2. passive of отверте́ть (otvertétʹ)
  3. (colloquial, figurative) to wriggle out; to get out; to get off; to escape
    • 1899, Лев Толстой, “Часть I. Глава V”, in Воскресенье; English translation from William E. Smith, transl., Resurrection, 1900:
      — А, и вы попали, — с громким хохотом встретил Пётр Герасимович Нехлюдова. — Не отвертелись?
      — Я и не думал отвёртываться, — строго и уныло сказал Нехлюдов.
      — A, i vy popali, — s gromkim xoxotom vstretil Pjotr Gerasimovič Nexljudova. — Ne otvertelisʹ?
      — Ja i ne dumal otvjórtyvatʹsja, — strogo i unylo skazal Nexljudov.
      "Ha, ha! So you are also trapped?" he greeted Nekhludoff with a loud burst of laughter. "You did not escape it?"
      "I never intended to evade my duty," sternly and gloomily said Nekhludoff.

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