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• могильник

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

• взбучка

  scolding, dressing down

• обалдеть

  to grow dumb with astonishment, to be dumb-founded, to drop one's jaw

• не горит

  it isn't urgent

• прикрыть задницу

  to cover someone's ass

• облом

  flop, washout, bummer

• пердимонокль

  - something that causes a strong surprise - a situation from which there is no way out but that can be considered funny in some extent

• фигня

  (= глупости, выдумки, чушь) stuff and nonsense; (= что-то негодное) trash, junk; (= неразбериха) mess; (= штуковина) thingy.

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