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More from "Russian idioms"

• разуй глаза!

  Use your eyes! Оpen your peepers!

• тебя только за смертью посылать

  approximately: you are good only when sent to call the death (i.e. it takes you too long to do things, ~ I could grow old)

• сроки горят

  there is a rush to do something, the deadline is failing

• что-то с чем-то

  something special, remarkable

• не прошло и полгода

  even half a year haven't passed yet (since you started doing something and finally finished)

• анекдот с бородой

  anecdote with a beard, i.e. a very old anecdote

• выса́сывать из па́льца

  to make up out of whole cloth, to fabricate, to concoct

• с приветом

  wacko, crazy (lit. with a hello)

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