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More from "Russian idioms"

• мама не горюй

  many, much, a lot, strongly (informal, lit. - mother, don't grieve)

• откуда ноги растут

  lit: where the legs grow from what is the cause/reason of the problem/events

• сто лет в обед

  lit. - a hundred years at lunch (i.e. at lunch it will be one hundred years); the phrase is used to describe very old things

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• два сапога пара

  (lit. - two boots make a pair)

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

• с корабля на бал

  from the ship to the ball (comes from the verse of Pushkin); means fast change of circumstancies

• отбиться от рук

  throw aside all restraint, let oneself go

• тараканы в голове

  lit: cockroaches in the head We say that everyone has his own cockroaches in the head. The more cockroaches there is, the more strange the person is.

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