Your elbow is near but you can’t bite it.
More Russian Proverbs:
An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion.Russian
Honor goes to God; the priests get the bacon.
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Shoot a daw and a crow, and soon you'll hit a falcon.
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Smooth hands love the labor of others.
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Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect.
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My job is to scream, 'cock-a-doodle-doo'; from then on, it may not dawn.
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