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More from "Russian idioms"

• идёт как корове седло

  it's like putting a saddle on a cow, it looks like a clown suit (on)

• с корабля на бал

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

• развязаны руки

  to have one's hands unties

• денег куры не клюют

  ~ to roll in money у него денег куры не клюют - he rolles in money

• не солоно хлебавши

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

• тебя только за смертью посылать

  approximately: you are good only when sent to call the death (i.e. it takes you too long to do things, ~ I could grow old)

• пахать (вкалывать) как папа Карло

  to work hard

• кидать камень в огород

  (lit.) to throw a stone at someone's garden to hint at someone with a negative connotation

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