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More from "Russian idioms"

• делать из мухи слона

  (lit. - to make an elephant out of a fly) to exaggerate, ~to make a mountain out of a molehill

• когда рак на горе свистнет

  ~ when hell freezes over (lit. - when a crayfish wistles on the mountain)

• ходить налево

  (lit. - to go to the left)

  to be unfaithful, to cheat on

• наплести с три короба

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

• помереть не встать

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

• сбоку-припёку

  redundant, needless, quite unnecessary, to be (sit) on the sidelines, to do something without apparent cause, to play a subordinate (minor) part

• кот наплакал

  (lit. - a cat has cried out) very little of almost nothing

• на безрыбье и рак рыба

  beggars can't be choosers; in a pinch anything will do; any port in a storm (lit. - when no fish even a crayfish is a fish)

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