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More from "Russian idioms"

• приказать долго жить

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

• ни петь, ни рисовать

  (lit. neither sing nor draw) to be unable to act, to be very drunk or too tired

• 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

• разнести в пух и прах

  lit: to smash to dawn and dust to win a victory over someone

• 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)

• принять на грудь

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• врать с три короба

  tell a bunch of lies

• кот наплакал

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

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