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• выса́сывать из па́льца

  to make up out of whole cloth, to fabricate, to concoct

• у него семь пятниц на неделе

  he keeps changing his mind, he's got a mind like a butterfly, he can never settle on anything

• как корова на льду

  lit. - as a cow on ice describes awkward or clumsy walking / movement

• сто лет в обед

  lit. - a hundred years at lunch (i.e. at lunch it will be one hundred years); the phrase is used to describe very old things

• пахать (вкалывать) как папа Карло

  to work hard

• разуй глаза!

  Use your eyes! Оpen your peepers!

• на безрыбье и рак рыба

  beggars can't be choosers; in a pinch anything will do; any port in a storm (lit. - when no fish even a crayfish is a fish)

• втирать очки

  to humbug somebody, to throw dust in somebody's eyes, to pull the wool over somebody's eyes

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