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Other | | Russian term or phrase: из-под земли доставать | И он, подобно Джорджу Клуни, собирающему своих «11 друзей Оушена» для ограбления казино, начинает, буквально, из-под земли доставать бывших коллег-музыкантов
Like George Clooney gathering his Ocean's Eleven to rob a casino, he begins to find his former musical colleagues no matter what it takes.
or it's better to say 'he literally goes to the end of the Earth to find his former musical colleagues'? |
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| | unearthing them in the most unlikely places | Explanation:
I know what movie you are writing about. The former conductor has to go find his former colleagues, who have dispersed to the ends of the earth, and bring them together again. You could say "unearthing," because they are difficult to find -- and also because most of them are doing low-paid, menial work, which is consistent of the "low" idea of unearthing. I'm sure there are plenty of fun ways to say this, though.
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12 hrs confidence: to leave no stone unturned
Explanation:
"to go to the end of the earth to get something" to my ear means putting all you have into reaching your goal. I`ve found this expression in texts like this one: "Lord's command to go "to the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8)"
Достать из под-земли doesn`t have such high register.
"Откуда пошло и почему мы так говорим: ИЗ-ПОД ЗЕМЛИ ДОСТАТЬ ?
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Достать из-под земли – добывать что-либо очень редкое любым способом, несмотря на трудности. Данное выражение связано со старинным обычаем зарывать металлические деньги в землю для сохранности, чтобы при крайней необходимости ими воспользоваться.
Были времена, когда никаких сберкасс не было и простой человек не знал, где и как сберечь от покражи и войны свое, пусть небольшое, денежное достояние. Такие люди хранили деньги под землей, зарывали их, чтобы не бояться ни человека, ни стихии.
Когда крестьянин говорил барину, что у него нечем заплатить налог, подать, барин топал ногами и кричал: «Из-под земли достань да отдай!» Это было вполне понятно обоим.
Мы тоже порой приказываем: «Достань из-под земли», - но уже забыв о старом, буквальном, смысле этих слов. У нас они просто значат: «Достань во что бы то ни стало!»
http://otvet.mail.ru/question/33266124/
Or, if you don`t think it plausible here`s another, grimmer explanation of its origin:
"Найти, человека даже в случае его смерти, он не будет чувствовать себя спокойно. Из ада достать... из могилы"
http://otvet.mail.ru/question/17895807/
source: vox populi
so i would go with MasterRussian here and use "to leave no stone unturned", as in "he left no stone unturned in search / searching for the musicians".
However, maybe this makes it sound like his fellow musicians sat under stones like some light-shy desert insects and her had to literary ... oh, he did! - буквально! - turn the stones around to get at them :)
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