коту (псу) под хвост

More from "Russian idioms"

• пахать (вкалывать) как папа Карло

  to work hard

• идёт как корове седло

  it's like putting a saddle on a cow, it looks like a clown suit (on)

• откуда ноги растут

  lit: where the legs grow from what is the cause/reason of the problem/events

• конь не валялся

  ~ and not a bone in the track

• разнести в пух и прах

  lit: to smash to dawn and dust to win a victory over someone

• спуститься с небес на землю

  to come down to earth

• чистой воды

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

• жевать сопли

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

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