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English translation: won\'t do the trick

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Russian term or phrase:	номер не пролезет
English translation:	won\'t do the trick
Entered by:	Alexey Suspitsyn

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17:29 Dec 2, 2011

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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / разговорная лексика

Russian term or phrase: номер не пролезет

... в этот раз "Едокам России" этот номер не пролезет. Россияне уже устали от ЕдРа и несменяемого тандема. По нашим сведениям, 4 ноября большие шансы имеют "Справедливая Россия" и КПРФ, чуть меньше - ЛДПР и "Яблоко".

Хотелось бы узнать соответствующий термин для "номер не пролезет" в английском языке. Заранее спасибо!

Alexey Suspitsyn KudoZ activity Questions: 37 (1 open) (1 without valid answers) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 551 Russian Federation
Local time: 07:25

won't do the trick

Explanation:
a possible option

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/31/obamas-fix-wont-do-...

Selected response from:

Daniel Frisano Paulon
Italy
Local time: 03:25

Grading comment

спасибо.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +4

that won't wash

LanaUK

4 +3

This time around the pig won't fly

The Misha

3 +4

won't do the trick

Daniel Frisano Paulon

a door is too small for them to fit through

Andrei Gitch

... this time, Russia Eaters ) aren't going to get away with it

Michael Korovkin

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

won't do the trick

Explanation:
a possible option

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/31/obamas-fix-wont-do-...

Daniel Frisano Paulon
Italy
Local time: 03:25
Native speaker of:

Italian,

Friulian
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

спасибо.

25 mins confidence:

a door is too small for them to fit through

Explanation:
Alice in Wonderland by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Very appropriate politically! Alice finds a small key to a door too small for her to fit through, but through which she sees an attractive garden.

That's what Kremlin plays today!

Andrei Gitch
Sweden
Local time: 03:25
Native speaker of:

Russian

17 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

that won't wash

Explanation:
What does "won't wash" mean?
Will not stand up to examination, is unconvincing, will not work, as in That excuse about your sick aunt just won't wash. This expression originally alluded to a fabric that would not stand up to washing but by the late 1800s was used figuratively for other kinds of failure.
http://idioms.yourdictionary.com/won-t-wash

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Note added at 19 mins (2011-12-02 17:49:04 GMT)
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Clegg's Charles Atlas act won't washThe coalition's weakling is talking tough – but the Lib Dems and the Tories still need each other as much as ever
Nick Clegg said people will see a strong liberal identity that might be called 'muscular liberalism'. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
In February, David Cameron promised "muscular liberalism". On Wednesday, Nick Clegg threw the phrase back at him in a relaunch speech after last week's double disaster for his party. Cameron's target was Islamist extremists;. Clegg's was his coalition partners. The rose garden politics of last summer, when the two party leaders conducted a Downing Street love-in at a joint press conference, are over: Clegg promised a "new phase" for the government. He said that the Liberal Democrats would be more "assertive", even though they're already "punching above their weight". The coalition's seven-stone weakling was coming on like Charles Atlas.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/11/clegg-ca...

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Note added at 29 mins (2011-12-02 17:58:26 GMT)
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That shocking conservative
George Bush is turning out to be no liberal. Truly
....
But no, that won’t wash. No sooner did he reveal these traces of his real agenda than he covered them over by declaring himself a “compassionate conservative”. What audacious dissembling, his critics declare. Obviously, a “compassionate conservative” cannot be an actual conservative: compassion is good, whereas, it is widely recognised, conservatism is bad. Mr Bush said he was a good man, and now he turns out to be a conservative. Not only that, but one who wants to keep his promises. America just isn’t used to this.

http://www.economist.com/node/593644

LanaUK
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:25
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian

49 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

This time around the pig won't fly

Explanation:
There's literally dozens of possible options here. It all really depends on how you work it into the sentence and what the general key of your translation is.

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Note added at 49 mins (2011-12-02 18:19:04 GMT)
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This time around the "Russian whatever" pig won't fly.

The Misha
Local time: 21:25
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian

22 hrs confidence:

... this time, Russia Eaters ) aren't going to get away with it

Explanation:
or "ain't gonna", or "will not"

Michael Korovkin
Local time: 03:25
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian

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