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• вопрос на засыпку

  tricky question, stumper

• прийти к шапочному разбору

  arrive when everyone else is already leaving

• откладывать в долгий ящик

  to postpone, to delay

• сбоку-припёку

  redundant, needless, quite unnecessary, to be (sit) on the sidelines, to do something without apparent cause, to play a subordinate (minor) part

• делать из мухи слона

  (lit. - to make an elephant out of a fly) to exaggerate, ~to make a mountain out of a molehill

• развязаны руки

  to have one's hands unties

• часы погоду показывают

  (lit. the watch shows the weather) the watch is faulty

• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

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