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More from "Russian idioms"

• гора с плеч

  lit.: a mountain off the shoulders Describes the relief that people experience after getting rid of anxiety, concerns, or worries

• только через мой труп!

  over my dead body!

• заговаривать зубы

  to distract somebody purposely by talking, to fool somebody with fine words, to fool somwbody with smooth talk

• помереть не встать

  it beats everything (informal, lit. - to die and not to stand up)

• на всю катушку

  very loud, to the fullest, at a full scale

• тебя только за смертью посылать

  approximately: you are good only when sent to call the death (i.e. it takes you too long to do things, ~ I could grow old)

• принять на грудь

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• трещать по швам

  (lit.) to burst at the seams to be in a state of complete decline, to fall apart, to collapse; (also about clothing) to be too tight to the wearer

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