Proverbs

[Zuzana Nagy]

Have one's cake and eat it?

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Zuzana Nagy
E-MAIL: nagy at fas.harvard.edu


On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Robert Chandler wrote:

> Dear Timothy and others
>
> > I think "I volky syty, i ovtsy tsely" is very
> > close to a very current idiomatic observation in US English "It's a win-win
> > [situation]"
> I doubt it.  Surely the Russian proverb is used ironically?  It is, after
> all, entirely impossible for sheep and wolves to achieve a "win-win
> situation"!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Robert
>
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