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More from "Russian idioms"

• отрывать от сердца

  to deprive oneself of something in favour of, to give up for

• часы погоду показывают

  (lit. the watch shows the weather) the watch is faulty

• белые пятна

  white spots, something unknown

• только через мой труп!

  over my dead body!

• беситься с жиру

  (lit. - to be furious from being fat) to be unsatisfied without any reasons, to be too well off for one's own good

• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

• муха укусила

  (lit. - what kind of fly has bit you?)

  Usually sounds like "кака́я му́ха тебя́/его́/её укуси́ла?". Used to talk about someone in a bad mood or behaving strangely.

• натыкаться на грабли

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

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