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More from "Russian idioms"

• ни пуха, ни пера

  (lit. neither fluff nor feather) a wish of good luck to someone that's supposed to be answered with "к чёрту!" (lit. - to the devil)

• душа не лежит

  (lit.) the soul does not lie (toward something or to do something); used when someone does not want to do something

• кузнец своего счастья

  architect of one's own fortune (lit. - a smith of your own's happiness)

• делать из мухи слона

  (lit. - to make an elephant out of a fly) to exaggerate, ~to make a mountain out of a molehill

• цветёт и пахнет

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

• накрыться медным тазом

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

• вешать / навешать всех собак на кого-либо

  to blame everything on somebody

• чистой воды

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

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