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More from "Russian idioms"

• беситься с жиру

  (lit. - to be furious from being fat) to be unsatisfied without any reasons, to be too well off for one's own good

• праздник желудка

  eating a lot of delicious food

• полная чаша

  wealth, plenty of everything

• 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)

• носить под сердцем

  (lit. - to carry under the heart) to be pregnant

• пяткой в грудь

  lit.: with a heel into the chest "Kicking yourself in the chest with your heel" means swearing, proving your case, trying to convince someone of something.

• встать не с той ноги

  ~ to get up on the wrong side of the bed (about someone being moody)

• не по зубам

  too hard for smb

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