Benjamin Disraeli

[see how the land lies] {v. phr.}, {informal} To reconnoiter; investigate. * /Before going there in person to ask for a job, you had better see how the land lies […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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P. Ginsparg

The problem with the global village is all the global village idiots.

сыграть в ящик

[сыграть в ящик] {colloquial} {slang} {v. phr.} умереть See also: [приказать долго жить]

be in someone else's shoes

[be in someone else's shoes] {v. phr.} To be in someone else's situation. * /Fred has had so much trouble recently that we […]

on record

[on record] {adj. phr.} 1. An official or recorded statement or fact; said for everyone to know. * /We do not know when the […]