сколько лет, сколько зим

More from "Russian idioms"

• кот наплакал

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

• разуй глаза!

  Use your eyes! Оpen your peepers!

• накрыться медным тазом

  (lit. - to cover with a copper basin), to fail, to go kaput, to get ruined

• с корабля на бал

  from the ship to the ball (comes from the verse of Pushkin); means fast change of circumstancies

• водить за нос

  to make a fool of somebody

• вешать / навешать всех собак на кого-либо

  to blame everything on somebody

• гвоздь программы

  the highlight of the programme

• пойти́ пра́хом

  ~ to go to the dogs, to go to rack and ruin, to go phut

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