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• собрать всю свою волю в кулак

  to get all one's strength together, to take one's courage in both hands

• не солоно хлебавши

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

• не ближний свет

  far away

• тебя только за смертью посылать

  approximately: you are good only when sent to call the death (i.e. it takes you too long to do things, ~ I could grow old)

• ни в одном глазу

  (lit. - not in one eye) sober as a judge

• песок сыпется

  lit. - the sand is pouring; the phrase is used to sarcastically describe aging people, mostly men

• на всякий пожарный

  just in case, in case of dire need

• заговаривать зубы

  to distract somebody purposely by talking, to fool somebody with fine words, to fool somwbody with smooth talk

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