днём с огнём (не найти, не сыщешь)

More from "Russian idioms"

• тебя только за смертью посылать

  approximately: you are good only when sent to call the death (i.e. it takes you too long to do things, ~ I could grow old)

• жевать сопли

  to mumble, hum and haw, to procrastinate, to be slow, to linger

• курить бамбук

  to do nothing, to idle

• держаться на соплях

  ≈ to hold on by a hair

• сводить концы с концами

  to make both ends meet

• когда рак на горе свистнет

  ~ when hell freezes over (lit. - when a crayfish wistles on the mountain)

• сыт по горло (чем-либо)

  to be fed up (with)

• на безрыбье и рак рыба

  beggars can't be choosers; in a pinch anything will do; any port in a storm (lit. - when no fish even a crayfish is a fish)

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