коту (псу) под хвост

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• упасть на голову / выпасть на голову / свалиться на голову

  ~ to fall upon someone's head (about problems, troubles etc.)

• сто лет в обед

  lit. - a hundred years at lunch (i.e. at lunch it will be one hundred years); the phrase is used to describe very old things

• к гадалке не ходи

  it's obvious (lit. - do not go to a fortune-teller)

• оказалось, что не казалось

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

• мчаться сломя голову

  to run headlong

• сбоку-припёку

  redundant, needless, quite unnecessary, to be (sit) on the sidelines, to do something without apparent cause, to play a subordinate (minor) part

• в час по чайной ложке

  (lit. - a teaspoon per hour) describes something that is very slow

• стрелять глазами

  to make eyes (at), to give the glad eye

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