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More from "Russian idioms"

• кузнец своего счастья

  architect of one's own fortune (lit. - a smith of your own's happiness)

• не ближний свет

  far away

• взяться за ум

  to come to one's senses, to become / grow reasonable

• сроки горят

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

• жаба душит

  lit. - toad strangles; about a greedy or stingy person

• конь не валялся

  ~ and not a bone in the track

• делать из мухи слона

  (lit. - to make an elephant out of a fly) to exaggerate, ~to make a mountain out of a molehill

• муха укусила

  (lit. - what kind of fly has bit you?)

  Usually sounds like "кака́я му́ха тебя́/его́/её укуси́ла?". Used to talk about someone in a bad mood or behaving strangely.

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