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More from "Russian idioms"

• у него семь пятниц на неделе

  he keeps changing his mind, he's got a mind like a butterfly, he can never settle on anything

• беситься с жиру

  (lit. - to be furious from being fat) to be unsatisfied without any reasons, to be too well off for one's own good

• когда рак на горе свистнет

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

• идёт как корове седло

  it's like putting a saddle on a cow, it looks like a clown suit (on)

• залить за воротник

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• сыт по горло (чем-либо)

  to be fed up (with)

• оказалось, что не казалось

  it turned out it didn't seem (popular expression)

• вдоль и поперёк

  far and wide

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