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More from "Russian idioms"

• не лезть ни в какие ворота

  this is going too far, this is totally out of place

• вот где собака зарыта!

  вот где соба́ка зары́та!

• нужен, как рыбе зонтик

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

• считать ворон

  to loaf, to day-dream

• спуститься с небес на землю

  to come down to earth

• дарёному коню в зубы не смотрят

  don't look a gift horse in the mouth

• два сапога пара

  (lit. - two boots make a pair)

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

• бабушка надвое сказала

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

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