души не чаять

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• заговаривать зубы

  to distract somebody purposely by talking, to fool somebody with fine words, to fool somwbody with smooth talk

• вертеться на языке

  lit.: to spin on the tongue to be on the tip of one's tongue

• шарики за ролики заехали

  not to have all one's marbles, to have a screw loose

• разнести в пух и прах

  lit: to smash to dawn and dust to win a victory over someone

• накрыться медным тазом

  (lit. - to cover with a copper basin), to fail, to go kaput, to get ruined

• кто во что горазд

  everybody does what he/she can/want

• муха укусила

  usually makes a part of a question such as "кака́я му́ха тебя́/его́/её укуси́ла?" implying strange and unusual behavior

• дырявые руки

  (lit.: holey hands) her/his fingers are all thumbs (about a clumsy person)

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