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Give me a break - 25 hits "не умерли еще"! 25 hits proves my point - they're dead as a f...ing dodo!
Now, lets look at our champion - 2930 hits (big smegging deal!). So what kind of sites did we...

@Native speakers of English.

To give you an idea of how ridiculously obsolete most of the sayings quoted so far are, may I present to you two old Yorkshire dialect sayings:

T'best way ter git...

I can't imagine anyone use any of those. They sound so horribly rustic. (I come from a village, still I wouldn't use them because they sound so freaking outdated)

The following are more or less...

В Питере за "козла" можно и на финку нарваться.

вот где собака порылась...

It's definately под каблуком (hence подкаблучники - henpecked husbands). Под башмаком is incorrect (likewise, подбашмачники* doesn't exist).

Come on, people, most of those sayings are obsolete, no one really uses them in today's Russia. Maybe 0.1% of the sayings quoted are used, not more.

@Learners of Russian: you'd be wasting your...

Never heard any of the above. Believe me, if you say таракан, nobody will think of Stalin.

It's норушка. I've only heard it in the context of children's books. Who knows, it might mean "undercover...