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• залить за воротник

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• дырявые руки

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

• собрать всю свою волю в кулак

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

• всеми фибрами души

  (lit: with all fibers of soul) very much

• не все дома

  not all there, a bit off, nutty, crazy (lit. not everybody is at home)

• не солоно хлебавши

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

• под завязку

  a lot, heaps (of something)

• приказать долго жить

  (lit. to command to live long) to pass away (to break if about the things)

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