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More from "Russian idioms"

• 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)

• вешать / навешать всех собак на кого-либо

  to blame everything on somebody

• сто лет в обед

  the phrase is used to describe very old things

• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

• дырявые руки

  (lit.: holey hands) her/his fingers are all thumbs (about a clumsy person)

• бабушка надвое сказала

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

• после дождичка в четверг

  ~ when hell freezes over

• курить бамбук

  to do nothing, to idle

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