🍺 Everyday life (29)
“He bought a cat in a sack.”
Купив кота в мішку.
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“A bear stepped on his ear.”
Ведмідь на вухо наступив.
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“Fear has big eyes.”
У страху великі очі.
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“A spoon of tar in a barrel of honey.”
Ложка дьогтю в бочці меду.
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“God protects the one who protects himself.”
Береженого Бог береже.
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“Someone else's house is worse than an executioner.”
Чужа хата гірше ката.
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“Money loves counting.”
Гроші люблять лік.
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“Stupid salo without bread.”
Дурне сало без хліба.
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“Hunger is not an aunt.”
Голод не тітка.
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“Money for the fish again.”
Знову за рибу гроші.
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“My house is on the edge of the village — I know nothing.”
Моя хата скраю — нічого не знаю.
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“A guest into the house — God into the house.”
Гість у хату — Бог у хату.
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“The old woman had no troubles, so she bought a piglet.”
Не мала баба клопоту, та купила порося.
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“Whatever the house is rich in, it is glad to give.”
Чим хата багата, тим і рада.
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“What fell off the cart is lost.”
Що з воза впало, те пропало.
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“He has seven Fridays in a week.”
У нього сім п'ятниць на тиждень.
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“Appetite comes while eating.”
Апетит приходить під час їжі.
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“Don't whistle — there will be no money.”
Не свисти — грошей не буде.
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“For him the sea is knee-deep.”
Йому море по коліна.
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“To beat baydyky.”
Бити байдики.
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“Hold your tail like a bublyk!”
Тримай хвіст бубликом!
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“Give it, God!”
Дай Боже!
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“May God have mercy!”
Хай Бог милує!
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“A naked man is not afraid of robbery.”
Голому розбій не страшний.
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“The old woman remembered how she was a girl.”
Згадала баба, як дівкою була.
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“The hole from the bagel.”
Дірка від бублика.
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“Like poultices for a dead man.”
Як мертвому припарки.
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“Trouble has come — open the gates.”
Прийшла біда — відчиняй ворота.
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“To pour from the empty into the hollow.”
З пустого в порожнє переливати.
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