Русские идиомы о еде - Russian idioms about food

This expression is used to refer to a person who knows a lot of things, but often confuses different concepts.

When a person is compared to a “cucumber”, Russians expect to see a person who looks fresh, young, cheerful and perfect despite all the circumstances.

In Russian, this expression is used to say that guilty people know what they've done.

Old Slavs would celebrate the awakening of the bears by giving the first pancake to them. In Old Slavic "ком" meant "bear" but today it means lump. So, the proverb means that the first attempt will often be unsuccessful, but you have to be persevering.