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• щас

  shortened "сейчас" (now)

• голодуха

  hunger (informal, comes from голод)

• стрелять / стрельнуть что-либо

  to ask, to borrow (something from someone)

• втюхивать / втюхать

  to foist

• сторицей

  ~ hundredfold (only used in combinations with other words)

• 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

• смыться

  to vanish, to slip away

• руки не из того места растут

  lit.: hand grow from the wrong place used to say that someone is very bad at using his hands

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