Some of the pictures are factually incorrect. In the case of the flea, it's shoes as in horseshoes, from Leskov's "Levsha" (The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea). In the case of the worm, you do not kill the worm by eating it - it's the imaginary worm that lives in your stomach and give you stomach ache when you are hungry, so you throw something in your stomach to quieten it.

Idioms are the best. They're culturally essential and usually make no sense to people who are not from that culture -even when explained. I'd love to see idioms from other languages!

Awesome list! I wish the author had more!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

То чуство когда ты нашел пост про себя ))

American idioms confused the hell out of me for a great many years, even though I was born here. Adults were always telling me to keep my nose clean for no apparent reason, but I had no idea that what they meant was "stay out of trouble," so I started picking my nose constantly, to the point where it would bleed and I would have scabs in my nose. It was a long time before someone laughingly informed me what was meant by the phrase, at which point I didn't even believe them, because it didn't make any sense to me and they couldn't explain the connection, only that "that's just something people say." I can only imagine growing up in Russia being accused of putting noodles on someone's ear or throwing dust in their eye, and replying that I don't even have any noodles or dust

Interesting, but I was hoping for more etymology.

we have some similar ones in serbian

I dont get it maybe this is what russian people say to each other almost like swearing.The only thing I understand from their perspective is the word suka which is a slang,i know the meaning by the way,used to hearing that when we are (me with my friends) while playing online moba i.e dota2 and sometimes CS.Maybe one can add that too but may disliked as its a slang.

I have read somewhere that a Russian expression for "doing nothing" is (wait for it) "Knocking pears out of a tree with your d**k".

way too simplistic. Probably the same people that were responsible for Hillary's "Reset" button.