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• яблоку негде упасть

  there's not no room to swing a cat

• расшибиться в лепёшку

  to lay oneself out, to go out of one's way, to lean over backwards (lit: to smash oneself into a flat cake)

• как рыба в воде

  like a fish in the water: means to feel at ease, to feel completely at home

• нужен, как собаке пятая нога

  describes unnecessary, needless, useless (≈ somebody needs it like a fish needs a bicycle)

• наломать дров

  to make a lot of blunders, to have done something very stupid.

• сто лет в обед

  lit. - a hundred years at lunch (i.e. at lunch it will be one hundred years); the phrase is used to describe very old things

• не солоно хлебавши

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

• не ближний свет

  far away

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