конь не валялся

More from "Russian idioms"

• как ваше ничего?

  how are you doing?

• играть на нервах

  to get on one's nerves

• в час по чайной ложке

  (lit. - a teaspoon per hour) describes something that is very slow

• чистой воды

  lit: of the first water sheerest, clearest type of something, pure and simple, obvious

• считать ворон

  to loaf, to day-dream

• игра не стоит свеч

  the game is not worth the candles

• вагон и маленькая тележка

  a car and a little truck (meaning: a lot)

• заморить червячка

  to satisfy a little hunger, to have a bite

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