не по зубам

More from "Russian idioms"

• раскатать губу

  to feel one's mouth watering, to get ready to grab, to think that something is up for grabs (lit: to roll out / roll up the lip)

• залить за воротник

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• кидать камень в огород

  (lit.) to throw a stone at someone's garden to hint at someone with a negative connotation

• от зубов отскакивает

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

• натыкаться на грабли

  ~ to cause a backlash, to drop a brick (lit. - to stumble on a rake)

• откуда ветер дует

  lit: where the wind blows from what is the cause/reason of the problem/events

• вдоль и поперёк

  far and wide

• под завязку

  a lot, heaps (of something)

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