🤖 Literally, in English
“Old love does not rust.”
Стара любов не іржавіє. Stara lyubov ne irzhaviye
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Old feelings never really go away.”
also: “You never quite get over your first love.” · “Some feelings don't fade.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Feelings for someone you once loved stay alive for years.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- Comparing love to metal that does not corrode is either romantic or an unusually industrial compliment.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'old flame' for the person, but no set phrase for the idea that the feeling itself survives intact. 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder' is about separation, not about the past.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said when old partners reconnect, or with a knowing look when someone mentions an ex a little too often.
🧠 Learn
- old flame (noun) — someone you were in love with in the past — колишнє кохання “She met an old flame at the reunion.”
- fade (verb) — to slowly become weaker or disappear — згасати, зникати “The memory never faded.”
🗣 In context
Вони знову разом через двадцять років. Стара любов не іржавіє.
They're together again after twenty years. Old feelings never really go away.
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