😉Главное правило утра: не моргать, а то уснёшь.
[ glavnaye pravila ootra: ni margat' a to oosn'yosh ]
🇬🇧 The main rule in the morning: don’t blink, otherwise you’ll fall asleep.

• Моргать (imperfective)
  [ margat' ]
🇬🇧 to blink

• Моргнуть (perfective)
  [ margnut' ]
🇬🇧 to blink, wink

❗But here is some Russian grammar magic for you.

🔻If you add prefix про- to 'моргать', you will get a new meaning:

• Проморгать (perfective)
  [ pramargat' ]
🇬🇧 to miss something

• Не проморгай своё счастье!
[ ni pramargaj svayo schast'ye ]
🇬🇧 Don't miss your happiness!

🔻Аnd again...if you add ending -ся to 'проморгать', you'll get an old meaning of the verb again:

• Проморгаться
   [ pramargatsya ]
🇬🇧 to regain clarity and distinctness of vision by blinking

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🥰 Телячьи нежности  (plural)
  [ tolyachyi nezhnasti ]

Liretally: calf endearment/tenderness

Meaning: sheepy (sloppy) sentimentality; maudlin endearments; silly sentimental stuff.

🔻Usually has a slightly negative meaning.

Origin:
The expression is supposed to appear in the novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky “The Brothers Karamazov”, it is there that the following lines are found:

• 'Маму свою он очень любил, а не любил только «телячьих нежностей», как выражался он на своём школьническом языке'.

[ Mamu svayu on ochen' lyubil, a ni lyubil tol'ka «telyach'ikh nezhnastey», kak vyrazhalsya on na svayem shkol'nicheskam yazyke ]

🇬🇧 “He loved his mother very much, and did not love only “calf tenderness,” as he expressed it in his schoolboy language.”

🎧🗣👇 listen, practice and learn Russian без (without) телячьих нежностей! Hugs!

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Доброе утро всем!

⏰ Коротко о том, как выглядят мои биологические часы.
[ koratka a tom kak vyglidyat mayee bialagicheskiye chesy ]
🇬🇧 Briefly about what my biological clock looks like.

• Ща!
  [ scha ]

• Ща <- Щас <- Сейчас
  [ scha - schas - sichas ]
🇬🇧 Wait! Just a moment!

🔻There is a well-known joke about Russians:

Only Russians answering the question
'Ты куда (идёшь)?'
[ kuda ty idyosh ]
🇬🇧 Where are you going to? can say:
'Ща приду!'
[ scha pridu ]
🇬🇧 I'll come in a moment!

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🥁 А мне по барабану!
    [ a mnye pa barabanoo]

Literally:
But (to) me on the drum

Meaning:
I don't care whatever you do or tell me!

Origin:
🔻This expression must have been derived from the expression 'как горох по барабану' (like peas on the drum). Аs the drum does not react in any way to the peas falling on it, it is calm inside and nothing happens to it.

🔻So, by saying 'А мне по барабану!', a person means that all information bounces off his head the same way as peas bounce off a well-stretched drum. The person is as calm as a drum.

🔻Another version of the origin of “on the drum” is associated with soldiers and officers who performed the march on the drum. Remember where their drums hang approximately? That's right, a little below the belly! But the obscene phrase was replaced with a more appropriate one😉.

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⚠️Be careful! Scary video!

👋 Бодрого утра, товарищи!

• Просыпайтесь! (plural/polite form, imperfective)
  [ prasypajtis' ]
🇬🇧 Wake up!

• Проснулись? (plural/polite form, perfective)
  [prasnoolis' ]
🇬🇧 Have you woken up yet?

• Выспались? (plural/polite form, perfective)
  [ vyspalis' ]
🇬🇧 Did you get enough sleep?

🎧🗣👇 listen, practice and stay cheerful!

Video by: retra

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