🤖 Literally, in English
“The one who pulls the cart is the one who gets whipped.”
Хто везе, того й поганяють. Khto veze, toho y pohaniayut
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“The person doing the work gets pushed the hardest.”
also: “Reliable people get the most work.” · “Do a good job and you'll get three more.”
- 📖 Meaning
- The most reliable worker is always given the most work.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The literal image is a horse being punished specifically for being the one that works.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'if you want something done, give it to a busy person', but that is admiring. This one is a complaint from the busy person's side, and English has no fixed phrase for it.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said with tired irony by whoever is currently carrying the team.
🧠 Learn
- reliable (adjective) — someone you can trust to do what they promise — надійний “She's the most reliable person here.”
- pick up the slack (idiom) — to do the work others are not doing — тягнути за інших “I'm always picking up the slack.”
🗣 In context
Знову все на мені. Хто везе, того й поганяють.
It's all on me again. The person doing the work gets pushed the hardest.
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