Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To walk in a staggering way; totter; stumble on any object.
- To leap from the water, as certain fish.
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Examples
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Generally - "pozhaluista" (пожалуйста), sort of old-fashioned, but polite "ne stoit blagodarnosti" (не стоит благодарности), in food/drink non-alcoholic mostly situations "na zdorov'e" (на здоровье).
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o 'the sofa, an' he cam 'stoit doon an' gae Moses Certricht a daud i 'the lug wi' the croon o 'his heid, that sent Moses' heid rap up again '
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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s kotorymi schitat'sja ne stoit, — vsja uzhe v rukah nashih.
The History of a Lie 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' Herman Bernstein 1905
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