🤖 Literally, in English
“Like milk from a male goat.”
Як з козла молока. Yak z kozla moloka
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“About as useful as a chocolate teapot.”
also: “Completely useless.” · “No use at all.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Completely useless — you will get nothing out of it or out of them.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The joke depends on knowing that a male goat cannot produce milk, so the image is of someone patiently milking an animal that was never going to cooperate.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “About as much use as a chocolate teapot.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Said about a person or thing that produces no result. Mildly rude when said about a person.
🧠 Learn
- useless (adjective) — not helpful or effective in any way — марний, непотрібний “This old printer is useless.”
- be of no use (phrase) — to not help at all — не мати жодної користі “The map was of no use in the dark.”
🗣 In context
Користі з нього — як з козла молока.
He's about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
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