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More from "Russian idioms"

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• точить зубы (на)

  to bear a grudge (against), to seek to get one's hands (on)

• вешать лапшу на уши

  to tell lies

• грызть гранит науки

  to study diligently, to burn the midnight oil, to grind away at one's books

• когда рак на горе свистнет

  ~ when hell freezes over (lit. - when a crayfish wistles on the mountain)

• упасть на голову / выпасть на голову / свалиться на голову

  ~ to fall upon someone's head (about problems, troubles etc.)

• дырявые руки

  (lit.: holey hands) her/his fingers are all thumbs (about a clumsy person)

• днём с огнём (не найти, не сыщешь)

  (lit. - can't find during the day time with fire/torch) it's very difficult or impossible to find something

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