🤖 Literally, in English
“In a quiet swamp the devils breed.”
У тихому болоті черті плодяться. U tykhomu boloti cherti plodiatsia
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“It's the quiet ones you have to watch.”
also: “Still waters run deep.” · “The quiet ones are always the worst.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Quiet, unremarkable people are often up to the most.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- English peers thoughtfully into deep water. Ukrainian reports an active demon breeding programme.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “Still waters run deep.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Said with suspicion rather than admiration — unlike the English equivalent, this one assumes the quiet person is hiding something, not merely deep.
🧠 Learn
- up to something (phrase) — secretly doing something suspicious — щось замишляти “He's quiet — he's up to something.”
- watch out for (phrase) — to be careful about someone — остерігатися “Watch out for the quiet ones.”
🗣 In context
Він мовчить, а сам усе влаштував. У тихому болоті черті плодяться.
He says nothing and arranged the whole thing. It's the quiet ones you have to watch.
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