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Only the first of its four words slips easily enough into English, as till . But English is the only European language I know that has no calque for the expression au revoir , probably because we have adopted this French phrase, like many others, intact, while other languages have the phrase calqued as: hasta la vista, a rivederci, do svidaniya, do widzenia, auf Wiedersehen, etc.
It is calqued upon the title of a play that few of the audience would have seen or read (significantly no doubt the drafting of the speech seems to have involved Ronald Miller, himself a dramatist).
Currently two Russian words are challenging correspondents, among others, to find English equivalents: perestroika and glasnost '. The first of these Gorbachevian buzzwords can be handily calqued into English as `restructuring.