🤖 Literally, in English
“Don't chase the horses.”
Не жени коней. Ne zheny koney
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Don't rush things.”
also: “Take your time.” · “There's no hurry.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Don't hurry. There is no need to rush this.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- English happens to have its own horse idiom for this, but 'don't chase the horses' sounds like farm safety advice rather than a request to calm down.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “Hold your horses.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Said to someone who is moving too fast — making a decision, telling a story, or pushing a plan forward before it is ready. Neutral and very common in everyday speech.
- 🏛 Cultural context
- From the era when a cart and horses were the fastest thing a village had; driving them hard was the original definition of being in a hurry.
🧠 Learn
- rush (verb) — to do something too quickly, without enough time — поспішати “Don't rush — we have plenty of time.”
- take your time (phrase) — do it slowly and carefully, there is no hurry — не поспішай “Take your time, the deadline is next week.”
🗣 In context
Не жени коней, ми ще навіть договір не читали.
Don't rush things — we haven't even read the contract yet.
🎧 Hear the contrast
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