🤖 Literally, in English
“A pig will find mud anywhere.”
Свиня скрізь болото знайде. Svynia skriz boloto znayde
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Some people find trouble wherever they go.”
also: “He'll get into trouble no matter where you put him.” · “Trouble follows some people.”
- 📖 Meaning
- A person with bad habits will find them in any environment.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The confidence of the claim — anywhere, no exceptions, the pig will locate mud — is the whole joke.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'a bad penny always turns up', but that is about an unwanted person returning, not about someone who reliably locates trouble. No exact equivalent exists.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said about someone who was moved to a new job, city or school and immediately recreated the same problems.
🧠 Learn
- get into trouble (phrase) — to do something that causes problems for you — вскочити в халепу “He gets into trouble everywhere he goes.”
- habit (noun) — something you do regularly, often without thinking — звичка “Old habits are hard to break.”
🗣 In context
Переїхав у нове місто і знову те саме. Свиня скрізь болото знайде.
He moved to a new city and it's the same story. Some people find trouble wherever they go.
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