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More from "Russian idioms"

• водить за нос

  to make a fool of somebody

• запахло жареным

  one smells trouble; there's danger in the air; it looks like they've got me (you etc ); it looks like the jig is up.

• 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)

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• собрать всю свою волю в кулак

  to get all one's strength together, to take one's courage in both hands

• пуд соли вместе съесть

  (lit. - to eat a pood of salt with somebody) to know a person for a while and very well

• гвоздь программы

  the highlight of the programme

• вешать / навешать всех собак на кого-либо

  to blame everything on somebody

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