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More from "Russian idioms"

• на безрыбье и рак рыба

  beggars can't be choosers; in a pinch anything will do; any port in a storm (lit. - when no fish even a crayfish is a fish)

• 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.

• денег куры не клюют

  ~ to roll in money у него денег куры не клюют - he rolles in money

• 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

• бить баклуши

  to do nothing, to idle

• не фонтан

  no great shakes, no gem

• кузнец своего счастья

  architect of one's own fortune (lit. - a smith of your own's happiness)

• ни пройти, ни проехать

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

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