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More from "Russian idioms"

• сборная солянка

  hotchpotch, hodgepodge, a mix of something

• ни в одном глазу

  (lit. - not in one eye) sober as a judge

• приказать долго жить

  (lit. to command to live long) to pass away (to break if about the things)

• делать из мухи слона

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

• душа не лежит

  (lit.) the soul does not lie (toward something or to do something); used when someone does not want to do something

• до свадьбы заживёт

  it will heal before the wedding

• быть в мыле

  to be very busy, to hurry, to run around

• заткнуть за пояс

  lit: to stick behind the belt to prove your superiority over someone

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