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More from "Russian idioms"

• бабушка надвое сказала

  ~ there's many a slip between the cup and the lip (idiomatic expression, lit. - the grandmother told in two)

• разуй глаза!

  Use your eyes! Оpen your peepers!

• с замиранием сердца

  with a sinking heart

• собрать всю свою волю в кулак

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

• собаку съесть на чём-либо

  ≈ to cut one's teeth on

• 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)

• скрепя сердце

  (lit. - tightening the heart) reluctantly, grudgingly

• накрыться медным тазом

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

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