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[в гробу видеть (видать)]  {v. phr.}  {colloquial}  {rude}

[v gro`bu vi`dat']

 {literally} ~ I've seen this in/from a coffin.

To have no wish to do (see, think about, etc.) sth.

Not to care a button (at all) about sth.

* /Да в  […]

[в пору в петлю лезть] или [хоть в петлю лезь]  {adv. phr.}

[v `poru v `petl'iu `lezt'] или [`hot' v `petl'iu `lez']

Лезть в петлю  {v. phr.} — ~to run one's head into the noose.

Said when smb. is in a  […]

в поте лица  {adv. phr.}

[v `pot'e l'i`tca (svoye`go)]

 {literary} by the sweat of one's face. — Through a hard work.

Eq.: [by the sweat of one's brow]

* /While being a young boy I had to work by the sweat of my brow to earn my family  […]

[в самый раз]  {adv. phr.}

[v `samyij `raz]

1. Suitably, properly.

The jacket suites me properly. — Эта куртка мне в самый раз.

See: [как раз], [to a T]

2. Just the right time to (do smth.).

* /Ему в  […]

[в ус не дуть]  {v. phr.}

[v us ne dut']

 {literally} do not blow through one's moustache.

~not care a straw (a rap).

Not to care abt. (or pay attention to, or be afraid of) smt. at all.

Not to express or reveal concern over smth.

Not to  […]

[валять дурака]  {v. phr.}  {informal}  {colloquial}

[va`l'yat' dura`ka]

валять (drag) ~ here "pretend"

 {literally} to drag the fool.

~play the fool / play tricks.

To idle; to pretend to be foolish, unaware; joke;

Sometimes  […]

[висеть на телефоне]  {v. phr.}  {informal}

[vi`s'et' na t'el'e`fon'e]

 {literally} to be hanging on the telephone.

To talk incessantly on the telephone, to spend hours on the telephone.

Comp.: [to sit on the phone]

[витать в облаках]  {v. phr.}  {informal}

To be absent-minded, laid-back; think about something different than what is being said.

Compare: [to be up in the clouds], [to have one's head in the clouds].

* /Your son always has his head in  […]

be ready for, and face some situation.

Город встретил врага во всеоружии. — The city faced the anemy ready and armed.

[водить за нос]  {v. phr.}  {informal}

 {literally} to pull by someone's nose.

1. To assify, fool, hoax; Make fool of smb.;

2. To joke at smb.;

~pull smb.'s leg

3. To spoof,  {slang} string.

Comp.:

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