🤖 Literally, in English
“He has seven Fridays in a week.”
У нього сім п'ятниць на тиждень. U noho sim pyatnyts na tyzhden
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“He changes his mind every five minutes.”
also: “You can never pin him down.” · “He says something different every day.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Someone is unreliable and constantly changes their decisions.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- A week with seven Fridays sounds like a dream until you realise it is being used as an accusation.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'to blow hot and cold' and 'to chop and change', but neither has the same everyday frequency, and neither uses the calendar image. The closest natural English is simply a plain sentence.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said with frustration about a colleague, a client or a friend who cannot be relied on to keep a plan.
🧠 Learn
- change your mind (phrase) — to make a different decision — передумати “She changed her mind again.”
- pin someone down (phrase) — to make someone give a clear answer — домогтися чіткої відповіді “I can't pin him down on a date.”
🗣 In context
Вчора одне, сьогодні інше. У нього сім п'ятниць на тиждень.
One thing yesterday, another today. He changes his mind every five minutes.
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