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More from "Russian idioms"

• кто во что горазд

  everybody does what he/she can/want

• ни пуха, ни пера

  (lit. neither fluff nor feather) a wish of good luck to someone that's supposed to be answered with "к чёрту!" (lit. - to the devil)

• шарики за ролики заехали

  not to have all one's marbles, to have a screw loose

• темно, хоть глаз выколи

  (lit. - so dark you can even prick my eye out) it is pitch-dark

• утереть нос

  lit: to wipe one's nose to prove a superiority, to win a victory over someone

• после дождичка в четверг

  ~ when hell freezes over

• кот наплакал

  very little of almost nothing

• бабушка надвое сказала

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

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