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• отрывать от сердца

  to deprive oneself of something in favour of, to give up for

• упасть на голову / выпасть на голову / свалиться на голову

  ~ to fall upon someone's head (about problems, troubles etc.)

• всеми правдами и неправдами

  lit.: by all truths and lies by all means, at any cost

• пяткой в грудь

  lit.: with a heel into the chest "Kicking yourself in the chest with your heel" means swearing, proving your case, trying to convince someone of something.

• мыть кости / перемывать косточки

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

• делать из мухи слона

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

• играть на нервах

  to get on one's nerves

• выше крыши

  (lit. - above the roof) much, many, a lot, well enough

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