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More from "Russian idioms"

• ума не приложу

  I have no idea, I haven't the slightest idea, I'm at my wits end

• коту (псу) под хвост

  ~ down the drain

• сроки горят

  there is a rush to do something, the deadline is failing

• песок сыпется

  lit. - the sand is pouring; the phrase is used to sarcastically describe aging people, mostly men

• вешать лапшу на уши

  to tell lies

• не по зубам

  too hard for smb

• жевать сопли

  to mumble, hum and haw, to procrastinate, to be slow, to linger

• днём с огнём (не найти, не сыщешь)

  (lit. - can't find during the day time with fire/torch) it's very difficult or impossible to find something

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