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• ни пройти, ни проехать

  (lit. - neither pass by, nor drive by) describes something obsctructing the passage or extreme tightness

• спуститься с небес на землю

  to come down to earth

• нужен, как рыбе зонтик

  describes something unnecessary, needless, useless (≈ somebody needs it like a fish needs a bicycle)

• накрыться медным тазом

  (lit. - to cover with a copper basin), to fail, to go kaput, to get ruined

• наплести с три короба

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

• до свадьбы заживёт

  it will heal before the wedding

• песок сыпется

  lit. - the sand is pouring; the phrase is used to sarcastically describe aging people, mostly men

• на безрыбье и рак рыба

  beggars can't be choosers; in a pinch anything will do; any port in a storm (lit. - when no fish even a crayfish is a fish)

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