🤖 Literally, in English
“Love is evil — you'll even fall in love with a goat.”
Любов зла — полюбиш і козла. Lyubov zla — polyubysh i kozla
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Love makes you fall for the strangest people.”
also: “Love is blind.” · “There's no accounting for who you fall for.”
- 📖 Meaning
- You cannot choose who you fall in love with, even if they are a bad choice.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- 'Love is blind' is poetic. 'You'll even fall in love with a goat' is a specific accusation about a specific person, delivered with a shrug.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “Love is blind.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Usually said jokingly about a friend's questionable partner. It rhymes in Ukrainian, which is half the reason it survives.
🧠 Learn
- fall for someone (phrase) — to start loving someone — закохатися “She fell for him in a week.”
- see something in someone (phrase) — to find someone attractive when others don't — знайти щось у комусь “I don't know what she sees in him.”
🗣 In context
Не розумію, що вона в ньому знайшла. Любов зла…
I don't know what she sees in him. Love is blind.
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