губа не дура

More from "Russian idioms"

• наворачивать круги

  to walk or drive in circles

• 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

• не лезть ни в какие ворота

  this is going too far, this is totally out of place

• мама не горюй

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

• на своём горбу

  by the sweat of one's brow

• носить под сердцем

  (lit. - to carry under the heart) to be pregnant

• дырявые руки

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

• оказалось, что не казалось

  it turned out it didn't seem (popular expression)

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