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More from "Russian idioms"

• уговорить бутылку

  to drink a whole bottle of alcohol

• душа не лежит

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

• накрыться медным тазом

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

• говорить / сказать пару ласковых

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

• в час по чайной ложке

  (lit. - a teaspoon per hour) describes something that is very slow

• на всю катушку

  very loud, to the fullest, at a full scale

• к гадалке не ходи

  it's obvious (lit. - do not go to a fortune-teller)

• два сапога пара

  (lit. - two boots make a pair)

  about people that are alike in many ways, usually negative qualities are implied

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