🤖 Literally, in English
“A goose is no comrade to a pig.”
Гусь свині не товариш. Hus svyni ne tovarysh
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“They're not in the same league.”
also: “Those two have nothing in common.” · “He doesn't mix with people like that.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Said about people too different in status, manners or habits to get along.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- Both animals live in the same yard and neither would describe the arrangement as a friendship.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “They move in different circles.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Can be snobbish or defensive depending on who says it. Often used sarcastically about someone who thinks too highly of themselves.
🧠 Learn
- in the same league (idiom) — of a similar level or class — одного рівня “They're not in the same league.”
- move in different circles (phrase) — to socialise with different groups of people — обертатися в різних колах “We move in different circles now.”
🗣 In context
Він з нами не сяде. Гусь свині не товариш.
He won't sit with us. We're not in the same league, apparently.
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