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More from "Russian idioms"

• пахать (вкалывать) как папа Карло

  to work hard

• коту (псу) под хвост

  ~ down the drain

• два сапога пара

  said about people that are alike in many ways, usually implying negative qualities

• ни петь, ни рисовать

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

• праздник желудка

  eating a lot of delicious food

• конь не валялся

  ~ and not a bone in the track

• в печёнках (сидеть)

  to annoy, to pester, to bore, to bother

• пуд соли вместе съесть

  (lit. - to eat a pood of salt with somebody) to know a person for a while and very well

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