разнести в пух и прах

More from "Russian idioms"

• когда рак на горе свистнет

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

• пинать балду

  to do nothing, to idle

• считать ворон

  to loaf, to day-dream

• валять дурака

  to do nothing, to idle

• ни петь, ни рисовать

  (lit. neither sing nor draw) to be unable to act, to be very drunk or too tired

• выса́сывать из па́льца

  to make up out of whole cloth, to fabricate, to concoct

• говорить / сказать пару ласковых

  (= сказать пару ласковых слов) to give somebody a nice talking to (telling off), to scold, to reprimand

• у него семь пятниц на неделе

  he keeps changing his mind, he's got a mind like a butterfly, he can never settle on anything

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