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More from "Russian idioms"

• отбиться от рук

  throw aside all restraint, let oneself go

• ума не приложу

  I have no idea, I haven't the slightest idea, I'm at my wits end

• не солоно хлебавши

  to get nothing for one's pains, to come away none the wiser

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• бабушка надвое сказала

  ~ there's many a slip between the cup and the lip (idiomatic expression, lit. - the grandmother told in two)

• всеми фибрами души

  (lit: with all fibers of soul) very much

• наломать дров

  to make a lot of blunders, to have done something very stupid.

• кузнец своего счастья

  architect of one's own fortune (lit. - a smith of your own's happiness)

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