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More from "Russian idioms"

• вешать лапшу на уши

  to tell lies

• у него семь пятниц на неделе

  he keeps changing his mind, he's got a mind like a butterfly, he can never settle on anything

• наворачивать круги

  to walk or drive in circles

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• упасть на голову / выпасть на голову / свалиться на голову

  ~ to fall upon someone's head (about problems, troubles etc.)

• дырявые руки

  (lit.: holey hands) her/his fingers are all thumbs (about a clumsy person)

• от зубов отскакивает

  (lit. - it bounces off the teeth) learnt by heart

• сто лет в обед

  lit. - a hundred years at lunch (i.e. at lunch it will be one hundred years); the phrase is used to describe very old things

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