Доброе утро!

😱 Изверги! Брюса не трогайте!
[ izvergi, bryusa ni trogajte ]
🇬🇧 Monsters! Take your hands off Bruce!

• Изверг (masc.noun)
  [ izverk ]
🇬🇧 savage, fiend (cruel and bloodthirsty person)

• Изверги (plural)
  [ izvergi ]

Origin:
Comes from Old Russian 'извьргъ' (miscarriage⚠️)

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• Дать леща (colloquial, perfective, usually about men)
[ dat' lischa ]

Literally: give bream (a fresh water fish)

😅 You won't believe but NO fish is meant here!

Meaning:
To give someone a hearty kick; to strike someone forcefully in the face usually with the palm of a hand

Origin:
It came from the verb 'лещить' [ leschit' ] to split to prick, usually a stone. From this verb came a noun: 'лескъ' [ lesk ] or 'лещ' [ lesch ] which means a blow with all its might, accompanied by a sound like a whip.

🔻It's synonym is:

•Закатить пощёчину (colloquial, perfective, usually about women)
[ zakatyt' paschyochinu ]
🇬🇧 to slap someone in the face

🎧🗣👇 listen, practice and don't agree if someone wants to дать леща to you!

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👆😱 Папа Карло наказывает Буратино.
[ papa Karla nakazyvaet Buratina ]
🇬🇧 Papa Carlo is punishing Buratino.

Everyone knows the fairy tale 'Pinocchio' and its Soviet version by Alexey Tolstoy - 'Буратино' [ buratina ].

In Russian there's an interesting expression:

• Пахать как папа Карло
  [ pakhat' kak papa Karla ]
or
• Вкалывать как папа Карло
  [ vkalyvat' kak papa Karla ]
which means to work too hard and too long, to work like a beaver.

• Я пашу как папа Карло, а он развлекается!
[ ya pashy kak papa Karla, a on razvlekayetsa ]
🇬🇧 I am working hard while he is entertaining!

🎧🗣👇listen, practice and don't work too much on Monday! Hugs!

Photo: Tomsk, Russia

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😅What would the Russian language sound like if it had the same grammar structure as English.

For those who didn't get it👇:
...like a weird combination of senseless words.

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🥰 Ммм, доброе утро всем!
Do you like buns?

• Булка (булочка/булки) (deminutive/plural)
[bul-ka bu-lach-ka bul-ki]
=
• Плюшка (плюшечка/плюшки)
[plush-ka plu-shech-ka plush-ki]
=
• Пышка (пышечка/пышки)
[pysh-ka py-shech-ka pysh-ki]
Bun, crumpet

BTW an attractive plump woman can also be called 'плюшeчка', 'пышечка' in a playful way. Not that hinting at anything 😅, just in case...

• Tы ж моя пышечка!
[ty zh ma-ya py-shych-ka]
You're my bun/plump little girl!

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• Нарваться (perfective)
[ narvatsa ]

• Нарываться (imperfective)
[ naryvatsa ]

Meaning:
1. to run into something (like scammers, fine, trouble, a rude person).
2. to provoke a scandal / an argument

🤬 Cлышь, ты нарвался! Щас махаться будем!
[ slysh, nu ty narvalsya. schas makhat'sya budem ]
🇬🇧 Hey! You got it (into trouble)!  Let's fight!

🔻'Mахаться' is from 'махать кулаками'
[ makhat' kulakami ]
🇬🇧 wave with your fists while fighting

'Cлышь (ты)!' is from 'слышишь'
[ slyshysh ]
🇬🇧 Hey (you)! (Listen to me!)

• Не нарывайся!
[ ne naryvaysya ]
🇬🇧 Don't push yourself (into trouble)!

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