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More from "Russian idioms"

• руки чешутся

  fingers itch; describes the state of anticipating to do something У меня руки чешутся = I can't wait / I anticipate something.

• шаром покати

  perfectly empty

• пуд соли вместе съесть

  (lit. - to eat a pood of salt with somebody) to know a person for a while and very well

• откуда ветер дует

  lit: where the wind blows from what is the cause/reason of the problem/events

• тараканы в голове

  lit: cockroaches in the head We say that everyone has his own cockroaches in the head. The more cockroaches there is, the more strange the person is.

• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

• набить оскомину

  to cause an unfavorable reaction (by being or having been overused, often repeated, boring etc); ~ to make one's mouth sore, to set one's teeth on edge

• пинать балду

  to do nothing, to idle

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