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• обалдеть

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

• взбучка

  scolding, dressing down

• с бодуна

  after a party with a lot of alcohol

• геморройный

  difficult, unpleasant, problematic

• пурга

  (= чушь) nonsense, rubbish

• слышь

  comes from 'слышишь' = 'Listen!' or 'Do you hear me?'

• влипнуть

  to get into a mess

• 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

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