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• баул

  a big bag

• слышь

  comes from 'слышишь' = 'Listen!' or 'Do you hear me?'

• смотрит в книгу, видит фигу

  (lit. - looks into a book, sees a fig) the expression is used to describe situations when someone is so taken by his thoughts that doesn't register anything he reads or watches

• футболить / отфутболить

  to give someone the limp leg, to give the runaround

• интернет ползает

  internet works very slowly

• припереться

  to arrive (slang)

• ты что, в сказку попал(а)?

  Have you got into a fairy-tale? [A sarcastic question meaning "What the hell happened to you that it took you so long?"]

• могильник

  a pile of papers on someone's desktop that seem to have been there forever (lit: mortuary, waste burial place)

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