пальцы веером
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Transcription (the accent is shown in capital letters):
[PAL'-tsy VYE-ye-ram]
Translation / meaning:
(lit.: fingers like a fan)
a gesture intended to indicate superiority over the interlocutor, was used by “new Russians”
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