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More from "Russian idioms"

• дырявые руки

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

• не все дома

  not all there, a bit off, nutty, crazy (lit. not everybody is at home)

• 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

• расшибиться в лепёшку

  to lay oneself out, to go out of one's way, to lean over backwards (lit: to smash oneself into a flat cake)

• не прошло и полгода

  even half a year haven't passed yet (since you started doing something and finally finished)

• как корова на льду

  lit. - as a cow on ice describes awkward or clumsy walking / movement

• коту (псу) под хвост

  ~ down the drain

• сборная солянка

  hotchpotch, hodgepodge, a mix of something

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