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Americans call them "cow chips". And in some places they have "cow chip throwing" contests. Do they do this in Russia?

Okay, but give me more. How can human pain or exertion relate to pastry?
I worked so hard that I fell on the floor and laid there "as flat as a pancake"! or
Я работал так много что в конце концов...

Can someone explain how the idiom "расшибись в лепешку"; which literally means: "you hurt yourself into a cookie" wind up meaning "you exert yourself to the fullest"