Я как на иголках. Сижу на чемоданах. Do you know what these idioms mean?📍🧳🤔 (сидеть) как на иголках = literally “to sit like on...

The word нос is just one of the words denoting a part of your face – a nose. However, it is used in a surprisingly big number of...

БАБЬЕ ЛЕТО is a period of warm, sunny, and dry weather before the cold and rainy days of the fall. In the middle part of Russia, ба́бье...

The inspiration for writing about this word came from one of my student’s questions: "What will it be in Russian if I need to say ‘save a...

It’s common for Russian students to say «Ни пу́ха ни пера́!» to each other before exams. It literally means "Not a bit of down, nor a...