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More from "Russian idioms"

• после дождичка в четверг

  ~ when hell freezes over (lit. - after a rain on Thursday)

• сбоку-припёку

  redundant, needless, quite unnecessary, to be (sit) on the sidelines, to do something without apparent cause, to play a subordinate (minor) part

• спуститься с небес на землю

  to come down to earth

• выйти сухим из воды

  to come off clear, to get away with it

• прийти к шапочному разбору

  arrive when everyone else is already leaving

• не фонтан

  no great shakes, no gem

• ходить по струнке

  (lit. - to walk on a string) to totally obey someone, to do everything he/her says

• шарики за ролики заехали

  not to have all one's marbles, to have a screw loose

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