🤖 Literally, in English
“Fear has big eyes.”
У страху великі очі. U strakhu velyki ochi
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Fear makes everything look worse than it is.”
also: “It's not as bad as you think.” · “You're imagining the worst.”
- 📖 Meaning
- When you are frightened, you imagine the problem is much bigger than it really is.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- 'Fear has big eyes' sounds like the opening line of a horror story rather than reassurance.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English can say 'fear magnifies danger', but that is a description, not an idiom. There is no everyday English phrase that puts it as compactly as this one.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said kindly, to calm someone down before an exam, a flight, or a difficult conversation.
🧠 Learn
- imagine (verb) — to form a picture of something in your mind — уявляти “Don't imagine the worst.”
- blow something out of proportion (idiom) — to treat something as much bigger than it is — роздувати з мухи слона “You're blowing this out of proportion.”
🗣 In context
Та все буде добре — у страху великі очі.
It'll be fine — fear makes everything look worse than it is.
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