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More from "Russian idioms"

• курам на смех

  it's enough to make a cat laugh (lit. - for chickens to laugh)

• после дождичка в четверг

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

• сыт по горло (чем-либо)

  to be fed up (with)

• на всю катушку

  very loud, to the fullest, at a full scale

• утереть нос

  lit: to wipe one's nose to prove a superiority, to win a victory over someone

• с приветом

  wacko, crazy (lit. with a hello)

• тараканы в голове

  lit: cockroaches in the head We say that everyone has his own cockroaches in the head. The more cockroaches there is, the more strange the person is.

• не по зубам

  too hard for smb

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