🤖 Literally, in English
“The wolf is fed by its legs.”
Вовка ноги годують. Vovka nohy hoduyut
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“You have to go out and get it.”
also: “Nothing comes to you sitting down.” · “You have to hustle.”
- 📖 Meaning
- You only earn something if you keep moving and looking for it.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- 'The wolf is fed by its legs' sounds like a strange anatomical claim rather than career advice.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'the early bird catches the worm', but that is about timing, not about movement. There is no common English idiom that says specifically 'you eat only if you keep walking'.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said about work that requires legwork — sales, freelancing, searching for clients. It is encouragement, not a complaint.
🧠 Learn
- hustle (verb) — to work hard and energetically to get something — крутитися, старанно працювати “If you want clients, you have to hustle.”
- legwork (noun) — the boring practical work of going places and asking people — чорнова робота, біганина “The deal took months of legwork.”
🗣 In context
Сиди не сиди, а вовка ноги годують — треба їхати до клієнта.
Sitting around won't help — you have to go out and get it; I need to visit the client.
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