коту (псу) под хвост

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• сводить концы с концами

  to make both ends meet

• не солоно хлебавши

  to get nothing for one's pains, to come away none the wiser

• яблоку негде упасть

  there's not no room to swing a cat

• бить баклуши

  to do nothing, to idle

• лезть из кожи вон

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

• не по зубам

  too hard for smb

• кот наплакал

  (lit. - a cat has cried out) very little of almost nothing

• работа кипит

  ~ work is in full swing

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