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More from "Russian idioms"

• принять на грудь

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• кто во что горазд

  everybody does what he/she can/want

• темно, хоть глаз выколи

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

• песок сыпется

  lit. - the sand is pouring; the phrase is used to sarcastically describe aging people, mostly men

• шарики за ролики заехали

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

• с корабля на бал

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

• закон подлости

  sod's law

• считать ворон

  to loaf, to day-dream

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