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More from "Russian idioms"

• не солоно хлебавши

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

• души не чаять

  to worship; to dote (upon); to adore

• чистой воды

  of the first water, sheerest, clearest type of something, pure and simple, obvious

• взяться за ум

  to come to one's senses, to become / grow reasonable

• вот где собака зарыта!

  вот где соба́ка зары́та!

• на лбу написано

  writ large on one's face

• с корабля на бал

  from the ship to the ball (comes from the verse of Pushkin); means fast change of circumstancies

• пойти́ пра́хом

  ~ to go to the dogs, to go to rack and ruin, to go phut

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