набирать силу("в Европейской части России набирает силу арктическое вторжение"
• Holiday shopping is getting into high gear at Pacific Centre.ART Vancouver)
стереть в пыль("Camp dust" refers to notorious security chief Lavrenty Beria's preferred form of threat when interrogating prisoners: "sotru v lagernuyu pil!" (I'll grind you down into camp dust! VLZ_58)
на свалке истории(The expression arose in the 19th century in various places, but it was popularized by Leon Trotsky who declared: "'You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on–into the dustbin of history!'" inyazserg)
притягивать за уши(pelipejchenko; someone who does not fit in a particular place or situation. She felt like a square peg in a round hole at the new school until she made some new friends. sarayli)