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покры́ть • (pokrýtʹ) pf (imperfective крыть or покрыва́ть)
- to cover, to roof (a house) ; to thatch, to tile
- to coat (with paint)
- to cover, to trump (in card games)
ему́ не́чем крыть
- jemú néčem krytʹ
- he hasn't a leg to stand on, there's nothing he can say to that (original meaning: he has no (good) card to cover (colloquial)
- (colloquial) to scold, to rail (at), to swear (at)