приказать долго жить

More from "Russian idioms"

• засучить рукава

  to turn / to roll / up one's sleeves

• заткнуть за пояс

  lit: to stick behind the belt to prove your superiority over someone

• 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)

• когда рак на горе свистнет

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

• залить за воротник

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• взяться за ум

  to come to one's senses, to become / grow reasonable

• утереть нос

  lit: to wipe one's nose to prove a superiority, to win a victory over someone

• делать из мухи слона

  (lit. - to make an elephant out of a fly) to exaggerate, ~to make a mountain out of a molehill

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