"пальцем в небо" meaning in Russian

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        "passage": "[…] nostri autem principes digito se caelum putent attingere si mulli barbati in piscinis sint, […]",
        "series": "The Loeb Classical Library",
        "title": "Letters to Atticus",
        "translation": "[…] and our great men think themselves in the seventh heaven, if they have bearded mullet in their fish ponds, […]",
        "translator": "E. O. Winstedt",
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  "etymology_text": "Literally, “with a finger in heaven”. Calque of Latin digito caelum attingere (literally “to touch heaven with a finger”), from a Cicero citation:\n:\n1912, Cicero, translated by E. O. Winstedt, Letters to Atticus (The Loeb Classical Library), volume 1, page 108:\n[…] nostri autem principes digito se caelum putent attingere si mulli barbati in piscinis sint, […]\n […] and our great men think themselves in the seventh heaven, if they have bearded mullet in their fish ponds, […]",
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          "english": "POSTMASTER. What do I think about it? Why, there'll be a war with the Turks.\nJUDGE. Exactly; that's just what I thought!\nGOVERNOR. Well, you're both wide of the mark.",
          "ref": "1836, Николая Васильевича Гоголя (Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol), Ревизоръ, Действие 1, Явление 2; translated as Arthur A. Sykes, transl., The Inspector-General (or \"Revizór.\") A Russian Comedy, London: Walter Scott, 1896, Act 1, Scene 2, page 15:",
          "roman": "Počtmejster. A što dúmaju? vojná s túrkami búdet.\nAmmos Fedorovič. V odnó slóvo! ja sam to že dúmal.\nGorodničij. Da, óba pálʹcem v nébo popáli!",
          "text": "Почтмейстер. А что ду́маю? война́ с ту́рками бу́дет.\nАммос Федорович. В одно́ сло́во! я сам то же ду́мал.\nГородничий. Да, о́ба па́льцем в не́бо попа́ли!",
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          "english": "Always they say, \"Bet it ain't this cold where you're from, eh?\" and always I say, \"Dead wrong', mate. You've obviously never visited Manchester in February.\"'",
          "ref": "2007, “Страшный Суд Тимоти Кавендиша”, in Георгий Борисович Яропольский (Georgy Borisovich Yaropolsky), transl., Облачный атлас; translation of David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004:",
          "roman": "— Véčno oní govorját: «Spórim, tam, otkúda ty prijéxal, nikogdá ne byválo tak xólodno, a?» — i véčno mne prixóditsja otvečátʹ: «Pálʹcem v nébo, prijátelʹ. Ty, vídno, nikogdá ne byvál v Mančéstere v fevralé».",
          "text": "— Ве́чно они́ говоря́т: «Спо́рим, там, отку́да ты прие́хал, никогда́ не быва́ло так хо́лодно, а?» — и ве́чно мне прихо́дится отвеча́ть: «Па́льцем в не́бо, прия́тель. Ты, ви́дно, никогда́ не быва́л в Манче́стере в феврале́».",
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      "ipa": "[ˈpalʲt͡sɨm ˈv‿nʲebə]"
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  "word": "пальцем в небо"
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          "ref": "1836, Николая Васильевича Гоголя (Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol), Ревизоръ, Действие 1, Явление 2; translated as Arthur A. Sykes, transl., The Inspector-General (or \"Revizór.\") A Russian Comedy, London: Walter Scott, 1896, Act 1, Scene 2, page 15:",
          "roman": "Počtmejster. A što dúmaju? vojná s túrkami búdet.\nAmmos Fedorovič. V odnó slóvo! ja sam to že dúmal.\nGorodničij. Da, óba pálʹcem v nébo popáli!",
          "text": "Почтмейстер. А что ду́маю? война́ с ту́рками бу́дет.\nАммос Федорович. В одно́ сло́во! я сам то же ду́мал.\nГородничий. Да, о́ба па́льцем в не́бо попа́ли!",
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          "english": "Always they say, \"Bet it ain't this cold where you're from, eh?\" and always I say, \"Dead wrong', mate. You've obviously never visited Manchester in February.\"'",
          "ref": "2007, “Страшный Суд Тимоти Кавендиша”, in Георгий Борисович Яропольский (Georgy Borisovich Yaropolsky), transl., Облачный атлас; translation of David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004:",
          "roman": "— Véčno oní govorját: «Spórim, tam, otkúda ty prijéxal, nikogdá ne byválo tak xólodno, a?» — i véčno mne prixóditsja otvečátʹ: «Pálʹcem v nébo, prijátelʹ. Ty, vídno, nikogdá ne byvál v Mančéstere v fevralé».",
          "text": "— Ве́чно они́ говоря́т: «Спо́рим, там, отку́да ты прие́хал, никогда́ не быва́ло так хо́лодно, а?» — и ве́чно мне прихо́дится отвеча́ть: «Па́льцем в не́бо, прия́тель. Ты, ви́дно, никогда́ не быва́л в Манче́стере в феврале́».",
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  "word": "пальцем в небо"
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