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    My post has been gone so I'll repeat:
    Actually it's quite simple - похваляться харчами means to vomit, to throw up
    (when you do that you're actually showing everyone what food you had been eating)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    Actually it's quite simple - похваляться харчами means to vomit, to throw up
    (when you do that you're actually showing everyone what food you had been eating)
    А ещё на эту тему говорят:
    "Кормить Ихтиандра"
    "Ехать в Ригу"
    "Пугать унитаз"
    "Говорить по фаянсовому телефону"

    А вот угадайте, что имел в виду один мой знакомый, который сказал: "Я уж думал, что гол забил, но оказалось, что в штангу..."

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    Может я такой испорченный, но мне какая-то пошлятина в голову лезет....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Propp
    ..."Ехать в Ригу" ...
    "Выдать по ригалете".
    "...Важно, чтобы форум оставался местом, объединяющим людей, для которых интересны русский язык и культура. ..." - MasterАdmin (из переписки)



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    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    Может я такой испорченный, но мне какая-то пошлятина в голову лезет....

    В общем-то так и есть. Он хотел сказать, что едва не подумал, что одна знакомая от него забеременела.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Propp
    А ещё на эту тему говорят:

    "Говорить по фаянсовому телефону"
    Brilliant!


    (makes me think of a Danish idiom - spille paa glastrompet - ("playing the glass trumpet"), which means drinking from the bottle )

    Great thread, this. I think there's nothing stupid about idioms at all - crazy sometimes, yes, but it's a colourful means of expression, creative use of language.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    Quote Originally Posted by Siriusly
    Attention: preciseogical is a word I just invented because I have ten thumbs.
    Could you elaborate that?
    "To have ten thumbs" or "to be all thumbs" means to be very unhandy - and admittedly, it doesn't have a lot to do with inventing new words, Siriusly was just playing around with language

    In the same line, a dancer can have two left feet.......
    Ой, голова у меня кружится |-P ...... and my brain hurts too....

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    I learned this new idiom from Brigada:

    У меня рука не поднимится = I can't (do it) (for moral reasons?)
    "С чий очи сънувам, чий е този лик обречен?
    Смъртен глас ми се причува и отеква с вик далечен
    Как да зърна да погледна, чуждий образ да прегърна,
    на лицето ми студено грях в надежда да превърна.."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yazeed
    У меня рука не поднимется = I can't (do it) (for moral reasons?)
    In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.

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    "He has green thumbs/fingers" means "he grows plants very well". Another idiom.

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    More idioms: try to find the answers
    1) Что такое валять дурака?
    2) Что такое тянуть резину?
    3) Что такое вопрос на засыпку?
    4) Как и зачем отделять мух от котлет?
    5) Кто может наломать дров?
    6) Кто и что закладывает за воротник?
    7) Зачем искать ветра в поле?
    8) Когда трубы горят?
    9) Про кого говорят "у него руки коротки"?
    10) У кого семь пятниц на неделе?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    4) Как и зачем отделять мух от котлет?
    ...и кто автор
    In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.

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    Is there a Russian equivalent for the following sentence?

    State of the art.

    Scott

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    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    4) Как и зачем отделять мух от котлет?
    ...и кто автор
    автор чего? Идиомы? Понятия не имею, если честно.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    4) Как и зачем отделять мух от котлет?
    ...и кто автор
    автор чего? Идиомы? Понятия не имею, если честно.
    Разве не Путин?
    In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.

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    У меня смутные ассоциации со школьными уроками литературы.
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    Да, я тоже ещё со школы помню это выражение.
    Please, correct my mistakes, except for the cases I misspell something on purpose!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BabaYaga
    In the same line, a dancer can have two left feet.......
    And if a dancer has two left feet there is always one thing that interferes him... (there is a Russian idiom about that)
    Please, correct my mistakes, except for the cases I misspell something on purpose!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    10) У кого семь пятниц на неделе?
    Безработники = the unemployed and...retired, like me!!
    DO IT YOURSELF!

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    Quote Originally Posted by fortheether
    Is there a Russian equivalent for the following sentence?

    State of the art.

    Scott
    современное положение дел,
    современное положение (науки, техники и т. п.)
    DO IT YOURSELF!

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    Site about Russsian idioms/popular expressions and their origins:
    http://www.otrezal.ru/catch-words/

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