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More from "Russian idioms"

• работа кипит

  ~ work is in full swing

• носить под сердцем

  (lit. - to carry under the heart) to be pregnant

• развязаны руки

  to have one's hands unties

• 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.

• выше крыши

  (lit. - above the roof) much, many, a lot, well enough

• курить бамбук

  to do nothing, to idle

• втирать очки

  to humbug somebody, to throw dust in somebody's eyes, to pull the wool over somebody's eyes

• лезть из кожи вон

  ~ to go all out, to bend over backwards (lit: to crawl out of one's skin)

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