🤖 Literally, in English
“Whoever loves someone also pulls their hair.”
Хто кого любить, той того й чубить. Khto koho lyubyt, toy toho y chubyt
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“People tease the ones they like.”
also: “He teases her because he likes her.” · “Affection can look like fighting.”
- 📖 Meaning
- People sometimes show affection by teasing or squabbling.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- Read literally in English it is alarming advice; the Ukrainian rhyme makes it sound like a nursery rhyme instead.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has the schoolyard explanation 'he's only teasing because he likes you', but it is a sentence adults say to children, not a fixed idiom. English also does not have the hair-pulling image built in.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said about children on a playground and about couples who bicker constantly. Mildly old-fashioned.
🧠 Learn
- tease (verb) — to make jokes about someone in a friendly way — дражнити, підколювати “He teases his sister all the time.”
- bicker (verb) — to argue about small unimportant things — сваритися через дрібниці “They bicker but they adore each other.”
🗣 In context
Вони весь час підколюють одне одного. Хто кого любить, той того й чубить.
They tease each other constantly. People tease the ones they like.
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