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• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

• тараканы в голове

  lit: cockroaches in the head We say that everyone has his own cockroaches in the head. The more cockroaches there is, the more strange the person is.

• держаться на соплях

  ≈ to hold on by a hair

• бабушка надвое сказала

  ~ there's many a slip between the cup and the lip (idiomatic expression, lit. - the grandmother told in two)

• пинать балду

  to do nothing, to idle

• втирать очки

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

• мчаться сломя голову

  to run headlong

• темно, хоть глаз выколи

  (lit. - so dark you can even prick my eye out) it is pitch-dark

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