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| Russian | English |
| назло бабушке отморозить уши | shoot oneself in the foot (ваш санек) |
| назло маме отморозить уши | cut off one's nose to spite one's face (to do something that is meant to harm someone else but that also harms the person who does it: You can refuse to talk to her if you like, but you're just cutting off your nose to spite your face. КГА) |
| отморозить зад | freeze one's buns off (younenari) |
| так холодно, что можно яйца отморозить | cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (Taras) |
| так холодно, что яйца можно отморозить | cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (the phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off (or on) a brass monkey" is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers. The reference to the testes (as the term balls is commonly understood to mean) of the brass monkey appears to be a 20th-century variant on the expression, prefigured by a range of references to other body parts, especially the nose and tail Taras) |