ходить по струнке

More from "Russian idioms"

• дырявые руки

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

• после дождичка в четверг

  ~ when hell freezes over (lit. - after a rain on Thursday)

• на всю катушку

  very loud, to the fullest, at a full scale

• валять дурака

  to do nothing, to idle

• встать не с той ноги

  (lit. - to get up from the wrong foot)

  ~ to get up on the wrong side of the bed (about someone moody)

• кто во что горазд

  everybody does what he/she can/want

• не солоно хлебавши

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

• ни в одном глазу

  (lit. - not in one eye) sober as a judge

Other categories