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More from "Russian idioms"

• 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)

• муха укусила

  usually makes a part of a question such as "кака́я му́ха тебя́/его́/её укуси́ла?" implying strange and unusual behavior

• в час по чайной ложке

  (lit. - a teaspoon per hour) describes something that is very slow

• запахло жареным

  one smells trouble; there's danger in the air; it looks like they've got me (you etc ); it looks like the jig is up.

• развязаны руки

  to be free to do something

• с корабля на бал

  from the ship to the ball (comes from the verse of Pushkin); means fast change of circumstancies

• вопрос на засыпку

  tricky question, stumper

• 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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