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More from "Russian idioms"

• курам на смех

  it's enough to make a cat laugh (lit. - for chickens to laugh)

• не оставить камня на камне

  lit: not to leave a stone on a stone to win a complete victory

• врать с три короба

  tell a bunch of lies

• шарики за ролики заехали

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

• наломать дров

  to make a lot of blunders, to have done something very stupid.

• отрывать от сердца

  to deprive oneself of something in favour of, to give up for

• ума не приложу

  I have no idea, I haven't the slightest idea, I'm at my wits end

• помереть не встать

  it beats everything (informal, lit. - to die and not to stand up)

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