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More from "Russian idioms"

• вить верёвки

  to control someone, to make him/her do everything you say

• жевать сопли

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

• вагон и маленькая тележка

  a car and a little truck (meaning: a lot)

• гвоздь программы

  the highlight of the programme

• скрепя сердце

  (lit. - tightening the heart) reluctantly, grudgingly

• сборная солянка

  hotchpotch, hodgepodge, a mix of something

• пуд соли вместе съесть

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

• песок сыпется

  the phrase is used to sarcastically describe aging people, mostly men

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