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More from "Russian idioms"

• шарики за ролики заехали

  not to have all one's marbles, to have a screw loose

• 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.

• мчаться сломя голову

  to run headlong

• выйти сухим из воды

  to come off clear, to get away with it

• мама не горюй

  many, much, a lot, strongly (informal, lit. - mother, don't grieve)

• водить за нос

  to make a fool of somebody

• кузнец своего счастья

  architect of one's own fortune (lit. - a smith of your own's happiness)

• собрать всю свою волю в кулак

  to get all one's strength together, to take one's courage in both hands

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