- shotgun marriage/wedding = a marriage that is arranged very quickly and suddenly because the woman is pregnant
- брак/свадьба по залёту
[The Office, 2008]

👰🏻‍♂️ «брак под дулом дробовика»: фраза гиперболически описывает сценарий, в котором отец беременной девушки прибегает к применению силы (угрожая дробовиком, например) для того, чтобы заставить парня жениться на забеременевшей от него девушки.

- to throw in the towel = to stop trying to do something because you have realized that you cannot succeed
- сдаться/признать поражение/капитулировать
[Sex and the City, 2002]

🥊 фраза пришла из бокса: выброшенное на ринг полотенце указывает на готовность боксёра сдаться

- to dabble (in) = to take a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or try a particular activity for a short period
- заниматься чем-то поверхностно/по-любительски
[Heretic, 2024]

💧первое значение слова: плескаться/барахтаться

- mountebank = someone who pretends to be someone or something that they are not, or to be able to do something that they cannot
- шарлатан/жулик/обманщик
[Severance, 2025]

🇮🇹 от итальянского montimbanco (залезающий на скамейку) — слово, которым называли шарлатана, торгующего на ярмарке «лекарствами» (зельями и любовными напитками), стоя на скамейке

- lookie-loo = a person who goes somewhere and stops to look at something (such as the scene of an accident)
- зевака
[The Office, 2008]

- second wind = a return of strength or energy that makes it possible to continue in an activity that needs a lot of effort
- второе дыхание
[The White Lotus, 2025]

- unsolicited = not asked for
- непрошеный (о мнении или совете)
[Severance, 2025]

- to chip in = to give some money when several people are giving money to pay for something together
- скинуться
[The Office, 2008]

https://news.1rj.ru/str/for_instance_eng/933

- mercurial = changing suddenly and often
- непостоянный/переменчивый
[Emilia Pérez, 2024]

- to splurge = to spend a lot of money on buying goods, especially expensive goods (informal)
- шиковать/кутить/транжирить/бросаться деньгами
[The White Lotus, 2025]

- to come at someone = to move toward someone in a threatening or aggressive way
- напасть/наброситься/налететь
[Severance, 2025]

- under your breath = quietly so that other people cannot hear exactly what you are saying
- себе под нос/еле слышно/вполголоса
[Heretic, 2024]

- palimony = an amount of money that a court of law orders a person to pay to his or her partner after they end their relationship, when they were not married
- алименты (в незарегистрированном браке)
[The White Lotus, 2025]

значение freeloader: https://news.1rj.ru/str/for_instance_eng/905

- good egg = a likeable person (somewhat old-fashioned)
- славный малый
[Severance, 2025]

- to stand someone up = to intentionally fail to meet someone when you said you would, especially someone you were starting to have a romantic relationship with
- продинамить
[Daria, 1999]

https://news.1rj.ru/str/for_instance_eng/831

- on-brand = typical of a person
- в духе/в стиле
[The White Lotus, 2025]

- third time's a charm - used to say that two efforts at something have already failed but perhaps the third will be successful
- Бог любит троицу
[Severance, 2025]

- morbid = causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
- мрачный/ужасный/отвратительный
[Nosferatu, 2024]

- kill fee = a percentage of the agreed payment that the client owes you if they terminate the project or reject the final product
- неустойка/компенсация/неполный гонорар
[Starlet, 2012]