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• на лбу написано

  writ large on one's face

• отбиться от рук

  throw aside all restraint, let oneself go

• скрепя сердце

  (lit. - tightening the heart) reluctantly, grudgingly

• кто во что горазд

  everybody does what he/she can/want

• сделать ноги

  to run away, to disappear, to vanish

• развязаны руки

  to have one's hands unties

• бабушка надвое сказала

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

• мыть кости / перемывать косточки

  to gossip, to discuss someone behind his back (lit. - to wash the bones)

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