If you want to know more about the culture of the country - just try to understand the idioms.

1. RUSSIAN IDIOMS
By Natalia Sachkova
Russia, Moscow

2. LIKE THROWING PEAS AGAINST THE WALL

3. To say something (usually
being irritated) to which
not the slightest
attention is paid

4. TO MAKE A NOTCH ON ONE’S NOSE

5. To remember
something
forever

6. TO STRAY IN THREE PINETREES

7. To be confused in the
simplest questions

8. TO RIDE AS A HARE

9. To travel without paying
for a ticket

10. FOR THE HENS TO LAUGH AT

11. It is absolutely ridiculous,
funny, silly

12. MUCH WATER HAS FLOWN AWAY

13. It was long ago. Much
has happened since that
time

14. TO HANG NOODLES TO THE EARS

15. To deceive

16. TASKS
• 1. Think about English
equivalents to these idioms.
• 2. Find more interesting Russian
idioms and make your own
Presentation.

17. Resources
1. Pedsovet.su
2. onlinerussianlanguageschool.blogspot.ru