10 Новые

Question 1

из песни слов не вы́кинешь

Answer 1

Literal: You can’t throw words out of a song
Meaning: You have to take the good with the bad

Question 2

сло́во не воробе́й, вы́летит — не пойма́ешь

Answer 2

Literal: a word is not a sparrow. Once it flies away you can’t catch it
Meaning: what’s said cannot be unsaid

Question 3

цыпля́т по о́сени счита́ют

Answer 3

Literal: chicks are counted in the fall
Meaning: don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

Question 4

горба́того моги́ла испра́вит

Answer 4

Literal: only the grace will cure a hunchback
Meaning: a leopard can’t change his spots

Question 5

знает кошка, чьё мясо съела

Answer 5

Literal: the cat knows whose meat it has eaten
Meaning: a guilty conscience has no accuser

Question 6

на воре и шапка горит

Answer 6

Literal: On a theif even a hat will burn
Meaning: An uneasy conscience betrays itself

Question 7

Ищи ветра в поле

Answer 7

Literal: Go look for the wind in a meadow
Meaning: It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack

Question 8

Завтрак съешь сам, обед раздели с другом, а ужин отдай врагу

Answer 8

Literal: Eat breakfast by yourself, share lunch with a friend, give dinner away to your enemy
Meaning: Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen, but dinner like a pauper

Question 9

не рой другому яму, сам в неё попадёшь

Answer 9

Literal: don’t dig a hole for another, you yourself will fall into it
Meaning: He who mischief hatches, mischief catches