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• набить оскомину

  to cause an unfavorable reaction (by being or having been overused, often repeated, boring etc); ~ to make one's mouth sore, to set one's teeth on edge

• вдоль и поперёк

  far and wide

• курить бамбук

  to do nothing, to idle

• собрать всю свою волю в кулак

  to get all one's strength together, to take one's courage in both hands

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• накрыться медным тазом

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

• ни петь, ни рисовать

  (lit. neither sing nor draw) to be unable to act, to be very drunk or too tired

• денег куры не клюют

  ~ to roll in money у него денег куры не клюют - he rolles in money

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