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More from "Russian idioms"

• на всю катушку

  very loud, to the fullest, at a full scale

• выше крыши

  (lit. - above the roof) much, many, a lot, well enough

• только через мой труп!

  over my dead body!

• тебя только за смертью посылать

  approximately: you are good only when sent to call the death (i.e. it takes you too long to do things, ~ I could grow old)

• у него семь пятниц на неделе

  he keeps changing his mind, he's got a mind like a butterfly, he can never settle on anything

• гвоздь программы

  the highlight of the programme

• цветёт и пахнет

  one blooms and smells (meaning somebody is feeling and looking good, and happy about themselves)

• до свадьбы заживёт

  it will heal before the wedding

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