валять дурака

More from "Russian idioms"

• нужен, как собаке пятая нога

  describes unnecessary, needless, useless (≈ somebody needs it like a fish needs a bicycle)

• сыт по горло (чем-либо)

  to be fed up (with)

• чёрт ногу сломит

  there is no making head or tail of it

• врать с три короба

  tell a bunch of lies

• не солоно хлебавши

  to get nothing for one's pains, to come away none the wiser

• откуда ноги растут

  lit: where the legs grow from what is the cause/reason of the problem/events

• не все дома

  not all there, a bit off, nutty, crazy (lit. not everybody is at home)

• наплести с три короба

  to talk a lot of nonsense, to tell tales, to gossip

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