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Why & who is being “strangled by a toad”? Do you hate parting with a large sum of money or simply loathe spending even a single penny? That’s “жаба душит” (“zhaba dushit” or “the toad strangling you”)! In the old days, diseases that caused suffocation and a feeling of heaviness in the chest were called ‘zhaba’ (‘toad’). For example, tonsillitis or diphtheria was referred to as a ‘throat toad’, while angina pectoris was called a ‘chest toad’. In the first case