🤖 Literally, in English
“To fear the wolf is not to go into the forest.”
Вовка боятися — в ліс не ходити. Vovka boyatysia — v lis ne khodyty
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“If you're afraid of the risk, don't start at all.”
also: “You can't do anything without taking a risk.” · “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
- 📖 Meaning
- You cannot achieve anything if you are unwilling to face the risks that come with it.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The literal grammar makes it sound like a definition rather than advice: being afraid of wolves is, apparently, the same thing as staying out of forests.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Said to encourage someone hesitating before a decision — a business, a move, a difficult conversation. Also said resignedly about a risk you have already accepted.
🧠 Learn
- take a risk (phrase) — to do something that might fail — ризикувати “You have to take a risk sometimes.”
- venture (verb) — to risk doing something — наважитися, ризикнути “He ventured everything on one deal.”
🗣 In context
Звісно, ризик є. Вовка боятися — в ліс не ходити.
Of course there's a risk. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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