No. 4,911 in Russian
кишки
"Кишки" - intestines or guts.
In a sentence
Вкусный борщ согреет вам душу и кишки.
Delicious borscht will warm your soul and intestines.
'Кишки' is used literally here to refer to the intestines, emphasizing physical warmth as a part of the experience.
У него кишки танцуют от голода.
His insides are dancing from hunger.
'Кишки' is used figuratively to describe the feeling of hunger, personifying his insides as showing motion due to lack of food.
Эти кишки проводов запутались на столе.
These tangles of wires got mixed up on the table.
'Кишки' is used metaphorically to describe a mess of wires resembling intestines, emphasizing their tangled and chaotic nature.
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