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More from "Russian idioms"

• встать не с той ноги

  (lit. - to get up from the wrong foot)

  ~ to get up on the wrong side of the bed (about someone moody)

• песок сыпется

  lit. - the sand is pouring; the phrase is used to sarcastically describe aging people, mostly men

• лезть из кожи вон

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

• вешать лапшу на уши

  to tell lies

• приказать долго жить

  (lit. to command to live long) to pass away (to break if about the things)

• 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

• бить баклуши

  to do nothing, to idle

• наворачивать круги

  to walk or drive in circles

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