a small or trivial lie
маленькая или тривиальная ложь (malenkaya ili triviálnaya lozh)
"It was just a little fib, nothing serious."
"Это была просто маленькая ложь, ничего серьезного." (Eto byla prosto malen'kaya lozh, nichego seryoznogo.)
born into a wealthy or royal family
to contact a potential customer without prior introduction
to succeed or fail by your own efforts
to take credit for someone else’s idea or success
to agree on a compromise between two opinions or prices
Everything in life keeps changing; nothing stays the same.
