🤖 Literally, in English
“A naked man is not afraid of robbery.”
Голому розбій не страшний. Holomu rozbiy ne strashnyy
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“You can't lose what you haven't got.”
also: “When you have nothing, you have nothing to fear.” · “There's nothing left for them to take.”
- 📖 Meaning
- A person with nothing left has nothing to be afraid of losing.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The literal version supplies a whole scene: a completely naked man watching robbers approach with total serenity.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “You can't get blood out of a stone.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Said with dark humour about your own situation — an empty bank account, a job you were about to quit anyway, a deal that cannot get worse.
🧠 Learn
- have nothing to lose (phrase) — to be in a position where no risk can make things worse — нічого втрачати “Apply for it — you have nothing to lose.”
- afraid of (adjective) — frightened of something — боятися чогось “He's not afraid of losing the contract.”
🗣 In context
Хай перевіряють, у нас однаково нічого немає. Голому розбій не страшний.
Let them audit us, there's nothing there anyway. You can't lose what you haven't got.
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