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One point I would add to what has been said already is that prior experience with OTHER foreign languages, as well as the depth with which you understand the grammar of your own...

Thanks very much, Paul! I was going back and forth between "без опасности" and "не в опасности", but neither sounded quite right. I should've thought of the phrase " без риска".

And this...

Actually, the meaning of "the second mouse gets the cheese" is that the FIRST mouse gets no cheese because he's dead:

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