4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I'd like to thank everyone for their detailed responses. Alex Zelkind was the one who commented on my response to a question in the En-Ru pair, and his explanation here (in Russian) made me understand exactly what he meant. I regret that my question has caused a bit of a spat between him and Hebrew translators. It was certainly not my intention, and in hindsight, I probably should have contacted him directly. I think it is most appropriate to award Kudoz points to the one translator (besides Alex, who had an insider's knowledge of the matter) who came closest to the idiomatic meaning, while staying linguistically (semantically) rigourous. "