“I'll take a rain check on that drink” is an idiom that means you can't accept an invitation right now, but you'd like to do so at a later time. For example, you might say this if someone asks you out for a drink, but you have to work late: 
You: "I'll take a rain check on that drink. I have to work late tonight"
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The term "rain check" comes from baseball, where it was common in the 1880s to offer paying spectators a rain check if a game was postponed or ended early due to bad weather. The rain check entitled the spectator to future admission to the game. 
TAKE A RAIN CHECK (ON SOMETHING) - Cambridge Dictionary
used to tell someone that you cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time: Mind if I take a rain chec...

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Idioms and Phrases This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain chec...

“I'll take a rain check on that drink” is an idiom that means you can't accept an invitation right now, but you'd like to do so at a later time. For example, you might say this if someone asks you out for a drink, but you have to work late: 
You: "I'll take a rain check on that drink. I have to work late tonight"
idiom: a rain check | English Help Online's Blog
The term "rain check" comes from baseball, where it was common in the 1880s to offer paying spectators a rain check if a game was postponed or ended early due to bad weather. The rain check entitled the spectator to future admission to the game. 
TAKE A RAIN CHECK (ON SOMETHING) - Cambridge Dictionary
used to tell someone that you cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time: Mind if I take a rain chec...

Cambridge Dictionary
To take a rain check☔️ (EXPLAINED) - YouTube
Oct 4, 2022 — can I take a rain check can I take a rain check what does this mean to take a rain check is an idiom that people use wh...

Idioms and Phrases This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain chec...

Rewriting “Taras Bulba” in Ukrainian

“Taras Bulba” in Ukrainian is a classic case of manipulative rewriting that gave a good reason for academic research in this tricky business to be called “The Manipulative School of Translation”.

Gogol’s prophetic work “Taras Bulba” gives an opportunity to see the framing of the Russo-Ukrainian war in the Ruussian mentality through a similarity between the Cossack hero slaying his son, who under the spell of infatuation with a Polish lady turned his sword against his own people, and Russian President Putin, punishing Ukraine for its backstreet affair with the EU and NATO.
 

13. “Kobzar” – from sympathy to disappointment

Under the influence of Soviet leaders a modest and uncouth peasant Tscribbler with a gift for creating stanza and painting rose to poetic prominence in the image of the revolutionary Ukrainian who was brave enough to challenge Russian tsardom and call for liberty.

Preliminaries

The Internet offers a selected bibliography of over 300 entries that include all of the major books in English about Shevchenko and his literary and art works. This is but a tiny portion of works dedicated to the glorification of the Ukrainian poet. In accordance with the rules of idolatry the achievements of the “minstrel” (verbal translation of “Kobzar”) are overestimated like it happens in Andrew Gregorovich’s speech that drew farfetched parallels between Shakespeare and Shevchenko. The false note rings in the title:

Shakespeare, Burns & Shevchenko – by Andrew Gregorovich, Speech at the Shevchenko Museum, Toronto, March 10, 2012.

Some equivalence may be established between Burns and Shevchenko on the basis of their humble origins. However, this equivalence proves to be superficial in terms of the transparency, predictability and imaginative force that tip the balance in favour of Burns. 

The major portion of works permeated with idolatry was published in the Soviet Union. The ruthless Soviet dictator Stalin who launched glorification of Shevchenko in the Soviet Union at the end of the 30-s of the XXth century gave such a powerful boost to the minstrel’s image that Shevchenko was accepted meekly by the Soviet society as “the greatest Ukrainian poet”.

print - ткань, рисунок, узор

Simple words sometimes cannot be translated with the help of equivalents:

Worn by everyone from pin-ups and "mob wives" to royalty, leopard print has long divided opinion. As the festive season approaches, it has become the party look for now.

Леопардовый узор, украшающий платья всех - от красавиц и «жен мафии» до членов королевской семьи - уже давно является предметом споров. 

In the USA "laid-back" ways are unacceptable, as well as in other countries where discipline and hard work are given priority. In Canada "laid-back" is the most natural way of treating things around you.

In Russian it is very close to "ПОФИГИЗМ"

Canada offers many privileges to people who live here. Basically, it is the right place for seniors to live in if you look for such benefits as free medical treatment and other social perks. You cannot help appreciating Canadian kind-heartedness, laid-back ways and very peculiar sense of humor that takes you to the Farmstead Boulevard (with no farmstead in view), the Balsdon Hollow (without a hollow nearby), the Seaview Heights (without a sea in the vicinity). A modest village in East Guillimbury, where we live, has a proud name of Queensville. Still, I feel the presence of royalty within my close circle in the personality of Olivia, my beloved granddaughter and the greatest treasure who calls the shots for me now. 

Have you ever felt a little mbuki-mvuki – the irresistible urge to “shuck off your clothes as you dance”? Perhaps a little kilig – the jittery fluttering feeling as you talk to someone you fancy? How about uitwaaien – which encapsulates the revitalising effects of taking a walk in the wind?

These words – taken from Bantu, Tagalog, and Dutch – have no direct English equivalent, but they represent very precise emotional experiences that are neglected in our language. And if Tim Lomas at the University of East London has his way, they might soon become much more familiar.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170126-the-untranslatable-emotions-you-never-knew-you-had

The Russo-Ukrainian war seems to offer too general a term for the unfolding tragedy. Neither Putin’s description of it as a “special military operation” (SMO) nor the Western definition of it as an “invasion” provide an accurate picture of the war that can better be framed into the scenario of the leader (Putin) inflicting a ruthless but richly deserved punishment on his beloved but treacherous progeny (Ukraine).

Putin acts just as the Cossack leader Taras Bulba from Gogol’s novel of the same name: Bulba slayed his own son   who, under the spell of infatuation with a Polish lady, turned his sword against his own people. Before shooting his son Taras says,      “ You are my progeny – and I will kill you!” 

Ukraine turned out to be as ungrateful to Russia as Andryi to his Cossack family that raised him. The Bolshevist Russia put Ukraine on the map and the “democratic” Russia foolishly bestowed independence on it on the Ukrainian solemn promise of eternal friendship and neutrality. 

Ukraine’s backstreet affair with the EU and NATO  culminated in an ungodly deal between Ukraine and the West: the Kiev movers and shakers allowed the  West to use Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia.

The cowardly, ignorant, greedy and corrupt Zelensky was sent by Fate to finish the job of weakening Russia with the help of the sacrificial goat – Ukraine.

Russian victory over Ukraine is clear to every sober-minded person who is familiar with the conflict. However, the red tape will yet take some time before the stage of resurrection, recovery, rebuilding and revival sets in.  

In full accord with Wilson’s famous “14 points” Putin is sure to conclude a deal in such a way, so that the losing side should be provided with the face-saving trade-off:  The West will not any longer have to strain its conscience and its budget over Ukraine; Ukraine will be allowed to have a state, a democratically elected government, free mass media, the rule of law and an opportunity to work for the benefit of its citizens.

Istanbul agreements, concluded between Russia and Ukraine in March of 2023, must be regarded as a realistic basis for the future peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

“Istanbul is Ukraine’s commitment to condemn the Maidan and the ideology of the Maidan. Everything else is a lie and a provocation, or an entourage,” as a popular Ukrainian journalist Mikhail Chaplyga said.

I feel strongly about Lincoln’s wise maxim:

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” 
I do not like either revolutions or revolutionaries who always come up with fancy names to cover up violence, crime and blood-shedding. The successful operation of German secret services, which catapulted Vladimir Lenin to power by means of a Petrograd coup in 1917, went into a history under the Bolshevik title “The Great October Socialist Revolution”. The American-paid and masterminded coup in Kiev toppled in 2014 the constitutionally elected, though corrupt, President Yanukovycg and showcased itself before the world as “The Revolution of Dignity”. Both revolutions are great historical fakes and manipulations.
Yes, change must come with evolution, not revolution.