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Saucepan head

In a lesson of Russian literature at a university in central Russia earlier this year, my teacher, who conducted her lessons in Russian, announced that she was sorry the lesson that day would be of a poor quality, because y menya golova kak kazan which means 'I have a head like a large saucepan', meaning, she explained, that she had a bad headache!

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Margarita, Saint- Petersburg 2009-09-03

Don't worry, in Russia it's normal to hear "y menya golova zvenit", my head is ringing.

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