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More from "Russian idioms"

• муха укусила

  (lit. - what kind of fly has bit you?)

  Usually sounds like "кака́я му́ха тебя́/его́/её укуси́ла?". Used to talk about someone in a bad mood or behaving strangely.

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• встать не с той ноги

  (lit. - to get up from the wrong foot)

  ~ to get up on the wrong side of the bed (about someone moody)

• закон подлости

  sod's law

• песок сыпется

  lit. - the sand is pouring; the phrase is used to sarcastically describe aging people, mostly men

• два сапога пара

  (lit. - two boots make a pair)

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

• ни пройти, ни проехать

  (lit. - neither pass by, nor drive by) describes something obsctructing the passage or extreme tightness

• 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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