🤖 Literally, in English
“He jumped out like Pylyp out of the hemp.”
Вискочив, як Пилип з конопель. Vyskochyv, yak Pylyp z konopel
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“He blurted it out at completely the wrong moment.”
also: “He jumped in out of nowhere.” · “Nobody asked him, and there he was.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Someone interrupted or spoke up suddenly, at the wrong time and without being asked.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The literal version raises questions it never answers: who is Pylyp, why was he in a hemp field, and why is this the standard unit of bad timing. Machine translators usually render «конопель» as 'cannabis', which makes it funnier and less accurate — hemp was an ordinary field crop.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'out of left field' for something unexpected and 'to jump the gun' for acting too early, but neither carries the specific picture of a person bursting into a conversation uninvited and slightly ridiculous. No single English idiom does this job.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said with amusement about the person who interrupts a meeting with an irrelevant point, or answers a question nobody asked them. Mocking but not cruel.
🧠 Learn
- blurt out (phrase) — to say something suddenly without thinking — бовкнути, випалити “She blurted out the answer before anyone else.”
- out of nowhere (phrase) — suddenly and unexpectedly — звідки не візьмись “He appeared out of nowhere.”
🗣 In context
Ми обговорювали бюджет, а він вискочив, як Пилип з конопель, зі своєю ідеєю про ребрендинг.
We were discussing the budget and he blurted out his rebranding idea at completely the wrong moment.
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