🤖 Literally, in English
“There's elderberry in the garden, and an uncle in Kyiv.”
На городі бузина, а в Києві дядько. Na horodi buzyna, a v Kyyevi diadko
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Those two things have nothing to do with each other.”
also: “That's a total non sequitur.” · “You're comparing completely unrelated things.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Said when someone connects two completely unrelated facts.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The saying is itself an example of what it describes, which is the most elegant thing about it.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “That's like comparing apples and oranges.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Used in arguments when the other person's logic has jumped the rails.
🧠 Learn
- unrelated (adjective) — having no connection — не пов'язаний “The two cases are unrelated.”
- have nothing to do with (phrase) — to have no connection to something — не мати відношення до “That has nothing to do with the budget.”
🗣 In context
До чого тут це? На городі бузина, а в Києві дядько.
What does that have to do with anything? Those two things are completely unrelated.
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