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• ни петь, ни рисовать

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

• принять на грудь

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• на лбу написано

  writ large on one's face

• тараканы в голове

  lit: cockroaches in the head We say that everyone has his own cockroaches in the head. The more cockroaches there is, the more strange the person is.

• набить оскомину

  to cause an unfavorable reaction (by being or having been overused, often repeated, boring etc); ~ to make one's mouth sore, to set one's teeth on edge

• выса́сывать из па́льца

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

• прийти к шапочному разбору

  arrive when everyone else is already leaving

• кот наплакал

  (lit. - a cat has cried out) very little of almost nothing

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