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Meaning: Excellently; very well; in a first-rate manner.
Language: Russian
Literally: to glory
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Origin uncertain; possibly from Church Slavonic or a wish that something be done 'to the glory of' God, implying the highest standard.
More idioms — Daily Life
- вводить в заблуждение — To deceive or mislead someone deliberately.
- сарафанное радио — The informal spread of gossip or news from person to person, especially by word of mouth.
- нечего греха таить — Truth be told; one might as well admit something true and damning rather than conceal it.
- Pédaler dans la semoule — To be confused and getting nowhere.
- Avoir d'autres chats à fouetter — To have more important things to do.
- Avoir le cul entre deux chaises — To be indecisive, caught between two options.
More Russian idioms
- ври больше — An expression of dismissive disbelief; an ironical way of saying someone's story is uncon…
- пускаться во все тяжкие — To abandon restraint and indulge recklessly in vices or wrongdoing without scruple.
- хоть ложись и умирай — There is no escape or solution; one must accept an impossible or desperate situation.
- на коленке — Done hastily and without proper tools or technique; improvised or makeshift.
- козёл отпущения — A person blamed or punished for the wrongs of others; a scapegoat.
- хоть убей — For the life of me; under no circumstances or condition could one do something.
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