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More from "Russian idioms"

• цветёт и пахнет

  one blooms and smells (meaning somebody is feeling and looking good, and happy about themselves)

• не лезть ни в какие ворота

  this is going too far, this is totally out of place

• в час по чайной ложке

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

• на безрыбье и рак рыба

  beggars can't be choosers; in a pinch anything will do; any port in a storm (lit. - when no fish even a crayfish is a fish)

• ни петь, ни рисовать

  (lit. neither sing nor draw) to be unable to act, to be very drunk or too tired

• белые пятна

  white spots, something unknown

• вдоль и поперёк

  far and wide

• разнести в пух и прах

  lit: to smash to dawn and dust to win a victory over someone

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