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More from "Russian idioms"

• с корабля на бал

  from the ship to the ball (comes from the verse of Pushkin); means fast change of circumstancies

• откуда ноги растут

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

• сводить концы с концами

  to make both ends meet

• темно, хоть глаз выколи

  (lit. - so dark you can even prick my eye out) it is pitch-dark

• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

• от зубов отскакивает

  (lit. - it bounces off the teeth) learnt by heart

• накрыться медным тазом

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

• держаться на соплях

  ≈ to hold on by a hair

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