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More from "Russian idioms"

• днём с огнём (не найти, не сыщешь)

  (lit. - can't find during the day time with fire/torch) it's very difficult or impossible to find something

• носить под сердцем

  (lit. - to carry under the heart) to be pregnant

• пинать балду

  to do nothing, to idle

• нужен, как рыбе зонтик

  describes something unnecessary, needless, useless (≈ somebody needs it like a fish needs a bicycle)

• под завязку

  a lot, heaps (of something)

• игра не стоит свеч

  the game is not worth the candles

• накрыться медным тазом

  (lit. - to cover with a copper basin), to fail, to go kaput, to get ruined

• не солоно хлебавши

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

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