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• чёрт ногу сломит

  there is no making head or tail of it

• держаться на соплях

  ≈ to hold on by a hair

• ума не приложу

  I have no idea, I haven't the slightest idea, I'm at my wits end

• скрепя сердце

  (lit. - tightening the heart) reluctantly, grudgingly

• развязаны руки

  to have one's hands unties

• темно, хоть глаз выколи

  (lit. - so dark you can even prick my eye out) it is pitch-dark

• душа не лежит

  (lit.) the soul does not lie (toward something or to do something); used when someone does not want to do something

• когда рак на горе свистнет

  ~ when hell freezes over (lit. - when a crayfish wistles on the mountain)

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