Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
дальше - больше
English translation:
It took off from there
Added to glossary by
Andrew Vdovin
Apr 24, 2007 08:03
17 yrs ago
Russian term
DELVING into DETAIL
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian, Russian to English, and 2 more.
Дальше - больше
Russian to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Дальше - больше. Теперь я уже ищу ответ на вечный вопрос: "В чем смысл жизни".
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Proposed translations
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David Knowles
Native in English
Specializes in field
Specialist in Civil Law & Contracts
Native in: English 
Works in: Russian to English, English, Ukrainian to English
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It took off from there
I looked this up in Lubensky's R-E Dictionary of Idioms, and this was one of the translations - the usual "from bad to worse" doesn't seem to fit here.
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Zamira B.
: bingo
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точно!
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Olga Arakelyan
: That's the best answer!!!
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спасибо!
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Alexander Demyanov
: Prego!
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дякую!
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bububu
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thanks!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much for your help David! Thanks everybody!!!"
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It deepened further down the road
"road", конечно, в переносном смысле
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Henry Schroeder
United States
United States
Native in English
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United States
20 years of experience, certified, ATA
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English, Russian to English, English
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the deeper I delved, the more intense it became
Apparently some sentence from War and Peace has been translated "the deeper we delve":
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/search/Search.aspx?By=0&Sear...
Among others:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q="the deeper we delve"&l...
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/search/Search.aspx?By=0&Sear...
Among others:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q="the deeper we delve"&l...
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The longer....the more
seems to fit the context you provide
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The further, the deeper
The further, the deeper.
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2 hrs
And that was just the jumping-off point
... еще до кучи
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Yuri Smirnov
Native in Russian
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Daily Translation since 1992
Native in: Belarusian , Russian
Works in: English to Belarusian, English to Russian, French to Russian, and 10 more.
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124
from bad to worse
from bad to worse, it gets worse and worse as it goes on
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Note added at 14 mins (2007-04-24 08:18:55 GMT)
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It just gets worse the further you go
It just gets worse the further you go....04/20/07 - It just gets worse the further you go.... 04/20/07 - Homophobic? Naw, you're just heterophobic! 04/20/07 - Cowboy + Drifter just wont let me come ...
www.stripcreator.com/comics/BrollY/390421/
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-04-24 11:25:12 GMT)
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А для меня так как раз по-русски это и звучит как 'from bad to worse'.
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Note added at 14 mins (2007-04-24 08:18:55 GMT)
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It just gets worse the further you go
It just gets worse the further you go....04/20/07 - It just gets worse the further you go.... 04/20/07 - Homophobic? Naw, you're just heterophobic! 04/20/07 - Cowboy + Drifter just wont let me come ...
www.stripcreator.com/comics/BrollY/390421/
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-04-24 11:25:12 GMT)
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А для меня так как раз по-русски это и звучит как 'from bad to worse'.
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Jack Doughty
: Your second version - the further you go, the more you learn.
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Thank you. In fact, it's YOUR version. You just used part of mine :-)
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tutta_karlson
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Tack sa mycket!
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