🤖 Literally, in English
“The old woman remembered how she was a girl.”
Згадала баба, як дівкою була. Zhadala baba, yak divkoyu bula
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“That was a long time ago and it makes no difference now.”
also: “That's ancient history.” · “Those days are gone.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Said when someone brings up something from the distant past that is no longer relevant.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The literal translation sounds like the opening line of a short story, not a way of telling someone their point is out of date.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “That's ancient history.”
- 📝 Explanation
- A dismissal, usually gentle, of nostalgia or of an old achievement someone keeps mentioning. Also said about yourself, self-mockingly.
🧠 Learn
- ancient history (idiom) — something that happened so long ago it no longer matters — давня історія, справи давно минулих днів “Our argument is ancient history now.”
- bring something up (phrase) — to start talking about a subject — піднімати тему “Why bring that up now?”
🗣 In context
Він знову про свій рекорд у 2011-му. Згадала баба, як дівкою була.
He's on about his record from 2011 again. That's ancient history.
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