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More from "Russian idioms"

• вдоль и поперёк

  far and wide

• считать ворон

  to loaf, to day-dream

• игра не стоит свеч

  the game is not worth the candles

• сборная солянка

  hotchpotch, hodgepodge, a mix of something

• на всякий пожарный

  just in case, in case of dire need

• ежу понятно

  it's obvious, it's clear (lit. - it's clear to a hedgehog)

• валять дурака

  to do nothing, to idle

• накрыться медным тазом

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

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