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как по мановению волшебной палочки

English translation: as if by magic / as if a magic wand had waved

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Russian term or phrase:как по мановению волшебной палочки
English translation:as if by magic / as if a magic wand had waved
Entered by: Amy Lesiewicz

22:04 Nov 10, 2007
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music
Russian term or phrase: как по мановению волшебной палочки
Толпа была такой плотной, что невозможно было и шага сделать. Но я поняла, что я - пройду. Я приблизилась к толпе и вдруг, как по мановению волшебной палочки, открылся проход.

Спасибо всем заранее.
svetlana cosquéric
France
Local time: 09:12
as if by magic / as if a magic wand had waved
Explanation:
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Amy Lesiewicz
United States
Local time: 03:12
Grading comment
Thank you Amy!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7as if by magic / as if a magic wand had waved
Amy Lesiewicz
4 +3as if by magic
Olga Layer
5like with a wave of a wand
Irina Mestergazi


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
like with a wave of a wand


Explanation:
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Irina Mestergazi
Italy
Local time: 09:12
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in ItalianItalian
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
as if by magic / as if a magic wand had waved


Explanation:
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Amy Lesiewicz
United States
Local time: 03:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you Amy!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrey Belousov (X): Оно.
1 min
agree  Dylan Edwards: - and it's worth noting how often it's put in the passive: "as if a (magic) wand had been waved"
3 mins
agree  Clue
23 mins
agree  Mark Vaintroub
2 hrs
agree  koundelev
3 hrs
agree  Alexander Demyanov
17 hrs
agree  Olga Arakelyan
20 hrs
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
as if by magic


Explanation:
another possibility

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Note added at 9 mins (2007-11-10 22:13:06 GMT)
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Another (perhaps a bit more poetic -- and much wordier :) possibility:
"I approached, and, suddenly, as if someone somewhere had waved a magic wand, the crowd parted"
-- a bit of a poetic license, anyway :)

Olga Layer
Local time: 03:12
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrey Belousov (X)
2 mins
agree  Mark Vaintroub
2 hrs
agree  Olga Arakelyan
20 hrs
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