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• сбоку-припёку

  redundant, needless, quite unnecessary, to be (sit) on the sidelines, to do something without apparent cause, to play a subordinate (minor) part

• ни в одном глазу

  (lit. - not in one eye) sober as a judge

• шарики за ролики заехали

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

• кошкины слёзы

  very little or nothing

• наломать дров

  to make a lot of blunders, to have done something very stupid.

• темно, хоть глаз выколи

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

• игра не стоит свеч

  the game is not worth the candles

• дырявые руки

  (lit.: holey hands) her/his fingers are all thumbs (about a clumsy person)

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