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More from "Russian idioms"

• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

• заговаривать зубы

  to distract somebody purposely by talking, to fool somebody with fine words, to fool somwbody with smooth talk

• чистой воды

  of the first water, sheerest, clearest type of something, pure and simple, obvious

• нужен, как рыбе зонтик

  describes something unnecessary, needless, useless (≈ somebody needs it like a fish needs a bicycle)

• беситься с жиру

  (lit. - to be furious from being fat) to be unsatisfied without any reasons, to be too well off for one's own good

• 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)

• сколько лет, сколько зим

  lit. 'how many summers, how many winters', means 'long time no see'.

• белые пятна

  white spots, something unknown

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