Bryan Alexander"I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better"
-found on Bluesky
Dima@bryanalexandee There's also a twist on the "To have your cake and eat it too." which in Ukrainian can be said as "To eat the fish and to sit on a dick." Which I often feel much better describes the situation. It shows that one doesn't only want to benefit without sacrifice but to go to extreme lengths of hypocrisy, indecency, or absurd contradiction to get everything they want.