In a strict approach, there is no adequate reference between Russian
idioms and their Hungarian counterparts. For this reason, in the teaching
process these kinds of lexical items require descriptions instead of
providing their Hungarian “equivalents”.
Variations of Russian idioms like „проще/дешевле пареной репы”
reveal that their semantic and stylistic features are not completely
idiomatized. The author's teaching experience persuades us to deal with
the problem non only in synchronic but diachronic aspect, too.
