врать с три короба

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• темно, хоть глаз выколи

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

• держать язык за зубами

  hold one's tongue

• точить зубы (на)

  to bear a grudge (against), to seek to get one's hands (on)

• кот наплакал

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

• игра не стоит свеч

  the game is not worth the candles

• кто во что горазд

  everybody does what he/she can/want

• наплести с три короба

  to talk a lot of nonsense, to tell tales, to gossip

• у него семь пятниц на неделе

  he keeps changing his mind, he's got a mind like a butterfly, he can never settle on anything

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