🤖 Literally, in English
“A mother's prayer will reach you from the bottom of the sea.”
Материнська молитва з дна моря дістане. Materynska molytva z dna moria distane
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“A mother's love will find you anywhere.”
also: “Nothing is beyond a mother's prayer.” · “A mother's love reaches everywhere.”
- 📖 Meaning
- A mother's prayer or love can save her child from any situation.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- This one is not funny at all, and that is deliberate — not every saying in the collection is a joke, and this is one of the most quoted serious ones.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has no equivalent idiom. Phrases like 'a mother's love knows no bounds' exist, but they are sentimental descriptions rather than a fixed saying with this weight.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said sincerely, often by older relatives, and often about someone who survived something dangerous.
🧠 Learn
- prayer (noun) — words spoken to God, often asking for help — молитва “She said a prayer for him.”
- reach (verb) — to arrive at or get to someone — досягти, дістатися “The news reached us late.”
🗣 In context
Він вижив у тій аварії. Материнська молитва з дна моря дістане.
He survived that crash. A mother's love will find you anywhere.
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