🤖 Literally, in English
“Don't climb into hell ahead of your father.”
Не лізь поперед батька в пекло. Ne liz poperedy batka v peklo
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Don't get ahead of yourself.”
also: “Wait your turn.” · “Don't jump the gun.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Don't rush ahead of people who know better or who should go first.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- It sounds like there is an orderly queue for hell and you are cutting in line ahead of your own dad.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English idioms like 'don't jump the gun' cover the impatience, but none of them carry the family-hierarchy part — the idea that the older person should go first, even into disaster. English has no single phrase for that.
- 📝 Explanation
- Used when someone volunteers, answers, or acts before the person with more experience or authority has spoken. Often said half-jokingly to a younger person.
🧠 Learn
- get ahead of yourself (phrase) — to do or plan something before the right moment — забігати наперед “Let's not get ahead of ourselves — nothing is signed yet.”
- jump the gun (idiom) — to start too early, before you should — поспішити, почати зарано “He jumped the gun and announced it before the vote.”
🗣 In context
Не лізь поперед батька в пекло — хай спочатку керівник скаже.
Don't get ahead of yourself — let the manager speak first.
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