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More from "Russian idioms"

• запахло жареным

  one smells trouble; there's danger in the air; it looks like they've got me (you etc ); it looks like the jig is up.

• после дождичка в четверг

  ~ when hell freezes over (lit. - after a rain on Thursday)

• на всякий пожарный

  just in case, in case of dire need

• сборная солянка

  hotchpotch, hodgepodge, a mix of something

• бить баклуши

  to do nothing, to idle

• ходить налево

  (lit. - to go to the left)

  to be unfaithful, to cheat on

• развязаны руки

  to have one's hands unties

• помереть не встать

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

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