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When are you publishing your first novel then?!
I think I understand now, it's only a useful expression when you can expand it's context enough to make it unambiguous.

Thanks, this has been...

Thanks, I like that, all very poetic. And clear. I like the bit about the postman... I didn't expect that.
Do you think my sentences about the king would have ambiguous meanings on their own? Are...

I was thinking of something like 'Лишь только Король умер';- 'As soon as the King is dead' which would be a different meaning from ''Only the King is dead". Although I imagine that the second...

Ta, that makes sense.

Only one question remains... when I next see 'Лишь Только' in a sentence, how will I know whether to translate it as 'as soon as' or 'only'...? I can imagine situations where...

Thanks, SPZenA.

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ould 'Лишь Только Одна Она' be translated as 'she is the only one?' Or maybe 'the only one is she/her'?
I can understand some russian words as concepts in their own right, but...

That's what I thought... it's so different from 'as soon as' which is the translation that makes sense in other contexts. When 'лишь только' means 'only', it gets confusing because 'только' means...

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I've been having trouble finding the meaning of this little phrase...
A lot of dictionaries have it as 'as soon as', but I'm not sure of its meaning in some contexts. For instance, the song '...