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• 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

• выса́сывать из па́льца

  to make up out of whole cloth, to fabricate, to concoct

• душа не лежит

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

• ходить налево

  (lit. - to go to the left)

  to be unfaithful, to cheat on

• приказать долго жить

  (lit. to command to live long) to pass away (to break if about the things)

• на своём горбу

  by the sweat of one's brow

• ни петь, ни рисовать

  (lit. neither sing nor draw) to be unable to act, to be very drunk or too tired

• втирать очки

  to humbug somebody, to throw dust in somebody's eyes, to pull the wool over somebody's eyes

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