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[Harold D. Baker]

How about "Life is not a bowl of cherries"?
>I am struggling with the Russian expression "ne vse kotu maslenica".
>Dal' (Tolkovyj slovar') specifies: "ne vse v izbytke zhit'". How do
>you say that in English? Is there an equivalent which has the same
>`wintery aura' as the Russian expression?

Harold D. Baker
Program in Russian, HH156
University of California, Irvine
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