🤖 Literally, in English
“The frog fucked the viper.”
Їбала жаба гадюку. Yibala zhaba hadiuku
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Those two deserve each other.”
also: “A match made in hell.” · “Two of a kind, and both as bad.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Said about two equally unpleasant people who have teamed up or are fighting each other.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The literal translation is so much more graphic than the meaning that English speakers assume they have mistranslated it. They have not.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English can say 'they deserve each other' or 'a match made in hell', but both are mild. There is no English obscenity that means specifically 'two equally unpleasant parties have found each other, and I want nothing to do with either'. The register does not survive translation.
- 📝 Explanation
- Crude and dismissive, used when two parties you have no sympathy for collide — rival crooks, two bad companies suing each other, a couple who both behave badly. The speaker is explicitly refusing to take a side.
🧠 Learn
- deserve each other (phrase) — said about two people who are equally bad and well matched — варті одне одного “They argue constantly — they deserve each other.”
- take sides (phrase) — to support one person in an argument — ставати на чийсь бік “I'm not taking sides in this one.”
🗣 In context
Ці двоє знову судяться? Їбала жаба гадюку.
Those two are suing each other again? They deserve each other.
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