🤖 Literally, in English
“Roasted pigeons do not fly into your mouth.”
Печені голуби не летять до губи. Pecheni holuby ne letiat do huby
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Nothing lands in your lap by itself.”
also: “You have to work for it.” · “It won't come to you on its own.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Good things do not arrive without effort.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The image is precise and slightly deranged: the pigeons are already roasted, and the only thing they are failing to do is fly.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'money doesn't grow on trees', but that is about scarcity, not about effort. The idea that food will not deliver itself, fully cooked, has no English idiom.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said to someone waiting passively for an opportunity. Rhymes in Ukrainian.
🧠 Learn
- fall into your lap (idiom) — to come to you easily, without effort — дістатися задарма “The job just fell into her lap.”
- passive (adjective) — waiting instead of acting — пасивний “Don't be passive about your career.”
🗣 In context
Ніхто сам не запропонує. Печені голуби не летять до губи.
Nobody's going to offer it to you. Nothing lands in your lap by itself.
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