уши развешивать

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• помереть не встать

  it beats everything (informal, lit. - to die and not to stand up)

• сбоку-припёку

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

• чистой воды

  lit: of the first water sheerest, clearest type of something, pure and simple, obvious

• ни в одном глазу

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

• притя́нуто за́ уши / притя́нуто за во́лосы

  far-fetched

• лезть из кожи вон

  ~ to go all out, to bend over backwards (lit: to crawl out of one's skin)

• всеми фибрами души

  (lit: with all fibers of soul) very much

• запахло жареным

  one smells trouble; there's danger in the air; it looks like they've got me (you etc ); it looks like the jig is up.

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