от зубов отскакивает

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• кто во что горазд

  everybody does what he/she can/want

• 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

• не солоно хлебавши

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

• засучить рукава

  to turn / to roll / up one's sleeves

• наворачивать круги

  to walk or drive in circles

• запахло жареным

  one smells trouble; there's danger in the air; it looks like they've got me (you etc ); it looks like the jig is up.

• притя́нуто за́ уши / притя́нуто за во́лосы

  far-fetched

• не по зубам

  too hard for smb

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