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More from "Russian idioms"

• бабушка надвое сказала

  ~ there's many a slip between the cup and the lip (idiomatic expression, lit. - the grandmother told in two)

• заморить червячка

  to satisfy a little hunger, to have a bite

• к гадалке не ходи

  it's obvious (lit. - do not go to a fortune-teller)

• вдоль и поперёк

  far and wide

• пуд соли вместе съесть

  (lit. - to eat a pood of salt with somebody) to know a person for a while and very well

• пахать (вкалывать) как папа Карло

  to work hard

• спуститься с небес на землю

  to come down to earth

• ни пройти, ни проехать

  (lit. - neither pass by, nor drive by) describes something obsctructing the passage or extreme tightness

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