• Ёшкин кот!
[ Yoshkin kot ]
Damn it!

🙀 It is an expletive that somebody says when something negative happens.
😇 It is  NOT a vulgar phrase, and is somewhat of a euphemism.

🐈‍⬛ This phrase can be literally translated as "A cat from Yoshkar-Ola" (in fact there is a monument to this cat in that city), but of course it is never used in this sense.

🌲Thus it is akin to other similar phrases like "ё моё"(Yo of mine) [ yo mayo ] or "ёлки палки"(spruce and sticks) [ yolki palki ] /"ёлки зелёные"(green spruce) [ yolki zeleniye ] .

😡 Another similar word of this kind is "блин" [ blin ] 'dammit' that is used due to the first two sounds being soft Б and soft Л.

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️To use any of these you would need to find yourself in a negative situation... and you would say something like:

🇷🇺 Ёшкин кот! Куда я засунул свои ключи?
[ yoshkin kot. Kuda ya sasunul svoyi kluchi ]
🇬🇧 Dammit! Where did I put my keys?

#spoken_Russian

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1. 🌉 Развод мостов - [ razvod mostov ]- a drawbridge

🇬🇧 pic 1 "I saw the drawbridge. I wonder why they'd quarreled"

2. 💔 Развод (с женой/ мужем) - [ razvod s zhenoy/muzhem ] - a divorce with wife/husband

🇬🇧 pic 2 "That very feeling when she wants a divorce"

3. 💰 Развод на деньги - [ razvod na den'gi ] - a scam, fraudulent business scheme

🇬🇧 pic 3 "Does it seem to me or is it a scam?"

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🍫 Шокола́дные конфе́ты [ shokoladnye konfety ]
Chocolate sweets/candies

Сладкое́жка [ sladkoezhka ]
➡️ сладко (sweet) + eшь (еat) = to have a sweet tooth.

🇷🇺 Я така́я сладкое́жка!
🔸️[ ya takaya sladkoezhka ]
🇬🇧 I'm such a sweet tooth!

❓А ты сладкоежка❓

🎧 listen and repeat ⬇️

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St Petersburg's humour😁

🇬🇧 Make America/tuna great again!
🇷🇺 Сделать Америку/тунец великой/великим снова!

#just_a_joke

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✈ Аэропо́рт Пу́лково в Санкт-Петербу́рге.

'I believe in angels'
a project by Russian sculptor Дмитрий Шорин

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