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More from "Russian idioms"

• втирать очки

  to humbug somebody, to throw dust in somebody's eyes, to pull the wool over somebody's eyes

• шарики за ролики заехали

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

• на всякий пожарный

  just in case, in case of dire need

• 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)

• мчаться сломя голову

  to run headlong

• уговорить бутылку

  to drink a whole bottle of alcohol

• душа не лежит

  (lit.) the soul does not lie (toward something or to do something); used when someone does not want to do something

• с пеной у рта

  lit.: with foam around the mouth Used when someone is eagerly trying to prove something.

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