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• говорить / сказать пару ласковых

  (= сказать пару ласковых слов) to give somebody a nice talking to (telling off), to scold, to reprimand

• только через мой труп!

  over my dead body!

• мама не горюй

  many, much, a lot, strongly (informal, lit. - mother, don't grieve)

• до свадьбы заживёт

  it will heal before the wedding

• выса́сывать из па́льца

  to make up out of whole cloth, to fabricate, to concoct

• 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

• когда рак на горе свистнет

  ~ when hell freezes over (lit. - when a crayfish wistles on the mountain)

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