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• грызть гранит науки

  to study diligently, to burn the midnight oil, to grind away at one's books

• как ваше ничего?

  how are you doing?

• белые пятна

  white spots, something unknown

• выйти сухим из воды

  to come off clear, to get away with it

• встать не с той ноги

  (lit. - to get up from the wrong foot)

  ~ to get up on the wrong side of the bed (about someone moody)

• шарики за ролики заехали

  not to have all one's marbles, to have a screw loose

• когда рак на горе свистнет

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

• всеми фибрами души

  (lit: with all fibers of soul) very much

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