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[Gene Shennikov]

You wrote:
>
>Dear subscribers,
>
>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?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Otto Boele,
>
>University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
>

This is a part of expression
"Ne vse kotu maslenica, pridet i velikii post "
which means good things don't last for ever.

"Maslenica" means Pancake week before Lent(seven weeks before Easter);
"Post" means Lent (fast(ing))

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