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More from "Russian idioms"

• наломать дров

  to make a lot of blunders, to have done something very stupid.

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• губа не дура

  lit.: the lip is not stupid Said about a person who knows what he/she wants and dreams big.

• отбиться от рук

  throw aside all restraint, let oneself go

• сколько лет, сколько зим

  lit. 'how many summers, how many winters', means 'long time no see'.

• набить оскомину

  to cause an unfavorable reaction (by being or having been overused, often repeated, boring etc); ~ to make one's mouth sore, to set one's teeth on edge

• жевать сопли

  to mumble, hum and haw, to procrastinate, to be slow, to linger

• сбоку-припёку

  redundant, needless, quite unnecessary, to be (sit) on the sidelines, to do something without apparent cause, to play a subordinate (minor) part

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