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More from "Russian idioms"

• ни пуха, ни пера

  (lit. neither fluff nor feather) a wish of good luck to someone that's supposed to be answered with "к чёрту!" (lit. - to the devil)

• делать из мухи слона

  (lit. - to make an elephant out of a fly) to exaggerate, ~to make a mountain out of a molehill

• держаться на соплях

  ≈ to hold on by a hair

• бабушка надвое сказала

  ~ there's many a slip between the cup and the lip (idiomatic expression, lit. - the grandmother told in two)

• мчаться сломя голову

  to run headlong

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• врать с три короба

  tell a bunch of lies

• натыкаться на грабли

  ~ to cause a backlash, to drop a brick (lit. - to stumble on a rake)

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