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More from "Russian idioms"

• не солоно хлебавши

  to get nothing for one's pains, to come away none the wiser

• сбоку-припёку

  redundant, needless, quite unnecessary, to be (sit) on the sidelines, to do something without apparent cause, to play a subordinate (minor) part

• шито белыми нитками

  lit: sewn with white threads used to characterize poorly concealed lies

• уши развешивать

  to be credulous, gullible

• дарёному коню в зубы не смотрят

  don't look a gift horse in the mouth

• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

• чистой воды

  lit: of the first water sheerest, clearest type of something, pure and simple, obvious

• как ваше ничего?

  how are you doing?

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