🤖 Literally, in English
“Where it is thin, that is where it tears.”
Де тонко, там і рветься. De tonko, tam i rvetsia
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Things break at the weakest point.”
also: “It always goes wrong where you're already weak.” · “Trouble finds the soft spot.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Problems appear exactly where something was already fragile.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- Read literally it is a remark about fabric, delivered in the tone of a doctor giving you bad news.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Said with grim recognition when a project, a body or a relationship fails in the place everybody already knew was weak. Fatalistic rather than accusing.
🧠 Learn
- weak point (noun) — the part of something most likely to fail — слабке місце “Security is the weak point of the whole system.”
- break down (phrase) — to stop working — ламатися, виходити з ладу “The car broke down on the motorway.”
🗣 In context
Впав саме той сервер, який ми не оновлювали. Де тонко, там і рветься.
The one server we never updated is the one that died. Things break at the weakest point.
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