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• с этим надо переспать

  one need to sleep it over

• бабушка надвое сказала

  ~ there's many a slip between the cup and the lip (idiomatic expression, lit. - the grandmother told in two)

• сроки горят

  there is a rush to do something, the deadline is failing

• распустить сопли / распустить нюни

  to snivel, to whimper, to start whining

• всеми правдами и неправдами

  lit.: by all truths and lies by all means, at any cost

• разнести в пух и прах

  lit: to smash to dawn and dust to win a victory over someone

• считать ворон

  to loaf, to day-dream

• песок сыпется

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

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