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Test your knowledge of the Russian idioms

Do you know what an idiom is?
 
It’s a phrase with the overall meaning different from the meaning of each individual word in the phrase. For example, “kick the bucket” or “to pull yourself together”.
 
Just like in English, there’re hundreds of idioms in Russian. Some of them will never make any sense if translated into English word for word.
 
Test your knowledge of Russian idiomatic expressions! See if you can guess the meaning and get to know some most commonly used idioms.