души не чаять

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• лезть из кожи вон

  ~ to go all out, to bend over backwards (lit: to crawl out of one's skin)

• дело с концом

  that's it, end of story

• яблоку негде упасть

  there's not no room to swing a cat

• пойти́ пра́хом

  ~ to go to the dogs, to go to rack and ruin, to go phut

• скрепя сердце

  (lit. - tightening the heart) reluctantly, grudgingly

• жаба душит

  lit. - toad strangles; about a greedy or stingy person

• нужен, как собаке пятая нога

  describes unnecessary, needless, useless (≈ somebody needs it like a fish needs a bicycle)

• курам на смех

  it's enough to make a cat laugh (lit. - for chickens to laugh)

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