Russian term
also an attorney with AML background
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, English
на взводе
За стол сели мы часов около одиннадцати, причем оба командира были уже, как говорится, на взводе
Proposed translations
cocked 'n' loaded
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Oleg Kadkin
: 'spring-loaded' as an option.
7 hrs
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svetlana cosquéric
7 hrs
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Michael Korovkin
: bravo, Misha. That's a real native's speak! The Asker should heed that!
1 day 10 hrs
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Thanks, Michael. I am secretly blushing under my scraggly beard. Cheers!
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United States
Exemplary quality, truly bilingual
Native in: Russian 
, English
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian, English
buzzed / underway to getting tanked/smashed/plastered/your term of choice
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RitaZ
: buzzed
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Thank you.
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Vladyslav Golovaty
: buzzed up
11 hrs
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Thank you, just 'buzzed'.
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Ukraine
Marketing, Manuals, Localization
Native in: Russian 
, Ukrainian
Works in: English to Russian, English to Ukrainian, Ukrainian to English, and 1 more.
came to the scratch
feeling no pain
Russian Federation
20+ Translated Books Published in Moscow
Native in: Russian (Variants: Standard-Russia, Moscow)
Works in: English to Russian, Italian to Russian, Spanish to Russian, and 2 more.
highy-strung
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Note added at 12 hrs (2012-12-08 09:23:27 GMT)
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Sorry for the spelling mistake!
I meant to say: highly-strung
(nervous, wrought-up; strung-up)
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The Misha
: high-strung, maybe?
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Thank you, Misha! I meant to say highly-strung! It was late night here (3 o`clock) when I was writing and I misspelled the word. So nice of you to draw my attention!
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Netherlands
Academic translator/interpreter
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) , Scots
Works in: Dutch to English, German to English, German to Dutch, and 54 more.
(pretty) tanked up (already)
United Kingdom
14 years of linguistic help in London
Native in: Russian (Variant: Standard-Russia)
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English
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