10 Crazy Things Russians Say And What They Mean

In Turkey, we make a camel out of a flea..

We make a mountain out of a molehill in the UK.

In Slovakia, we make a donkey from a mosquito...:/ (z komára somára)

Making a stallion out of a mosquito.( in Romania)

In The Centaurus we make new star from a dust

it's correct, but in Russia we don't eat noodle from Chinese small box :)

In polish "nawijać makaron na uszy" (to hang noodles on the ears) means talk about something endlessly

Another expression for prolonged fraud or hoax is to "drive you by your nose".

It is more Italian do🙂☺🙂

Indian liars would. "Show Green Gardens".

Nono, not a shoe like the one at the picture. A horseshoe.

This is a very strange and ambiguous story. There is a story written by a writer Leskov called "Left-handed" about russians. So... One European master made a mechanical steel flea which was able to dance. But the Russian master named left-handed was tasked with doing something better. He made a horseshoe for a flea, each stamped out his brand, and also made nails for them. But the thing is that the flea after that lost the opportunity to dance. In this context, the idiom sounds more like a mockery of a skilful but stupid person.

There is a story by a famous Russian writer that spoke about a very talented craftsman whose name was Levsha (Lefthander) and who was so talented that he could put a tiny horse (flea, actually) shoe on a flea.

It all came from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Cross-eyed_Lefty_from_Tula_and_the_Steel_Flea

This one mainly refers to fine handiwork; here's the original story from where the expression comes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Cross-eyed_Lefty_from_Tula_and_the_Steel_Flea

crayfish is correct !)

You can also say "after it rains on a Thursday" :)

In America, it's "When pigs fly"

And the comments go down hill. lol arguing over a shrimp. I mean crawdad, crab, I mean lobster, I mean crayfish, I mean prawn.... we get it

I heard someone say - " When a dead fish farts in a puddle" (Когда дохлая рыба в луже пёрнет)

This ia just awful jail slang! ) This slang usually use bad educated and dumb people only ! Sometimes use as a joke about dumb people )

Not really. Just mean, that You can punch my face if it's not true. Not a jail slang. Just another idiom from the fair story

English/american is sometimes "its true I tell you, if its not I'll eat my hat!"