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More from "Russian idioms"

• в час по чайной ложке

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

• нужен, как собаке пятая нога

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

• взяться за ум

  to come to one's senses, to become / grow reasonable

• приказать долго жить

  (lit. to command to live long) to pass away (to break if about the things)

• наворачивать круги

  to walk or drive in circles

• точить зубы (на)

  to bear a grudge (against), to seek to get one's hands (on)

• лезть из кожи вон

  ~ to go all out, to bend over backwards (lit: to crawl out of one's skin)

• считать ворон

  to loaf, to day-dream

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