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More from "Russian idioms"

• коту (псу) под хвост

  ~ down the drain

• развязаны руки

  to have one's hands unties

• цветёт и пахнет

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

• уши развешивать

  to be credulous, gullible

• встать не с той ноги

  (lit. - to get up from the wrong foot)

  ~ to get up on the wrong side of the bed (about someone moody)

• на безрыбье и рак рыба

  beggars can't be choosers; in a pinch anything will do; any port in a storm (lit. - when no fish even a crayfish is a fish)

• песок сыпется

  lit. - the sand is pouring; the phrase is used to sarcastically describe aging people, mostly men

• говорить / сказать пару ласковых

  (= сказать пару ласковых слов) to give somebody a nice talking to (telling off), to scold, to reprimand

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