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More from "Russian idioms"

• бить баклуши

  to do nothing, to idle

• идёт как корове седло

  it's like putting a saddle on a cow, it looks like a clown suit (on)

• кот наплакал

  (lit. - a cat has cried out) very little of almost nothing

• носить под сердцем

  (lit. - to carry under the heart) to be pregnant

• гвоздь программы

  the highlight of the programme

• заткнуть за пояс

  lit: to stick behind the belt to prove your superiority over someone

• сто лет в обед

  lit. - a hundred years at lunch (i.e. at lunch it will be one hundred years); the phrase is used to describe very old things

• в час по чайной ложке

  (lit. - a teaspoon per hour) describes something that is very slow

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