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• как огурчик

  ≈ as good as new, in prime condition, fresh as a daisy

• раскошеливаться / раскошелиться

  to fork out, to pay, to incur expenses

• не судьба

  no luck to, it's not one's destiny to, fate decreed otherwise

• обхохочешься

  laughing out loud; it's so funny

• недалёкого ума

  not very clever / smart

• олух

  blockhead, dullard

• из той же серии

  the same, similar, of the same kind

• свежо предание, да верится с трудом

  lit: the legend is fresh but hard to believe used to say exactly that: the story is new, but it is very hard to believe it

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