Russian saying

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

>I wonder if anyone knows a Russian (or other Slavic)
>expression to the effect that a shaft of wheat that
>stands too high gets cut?
>

There's a Bulgarian saying that expresses the same idea in a converse
way: "preklonena/poklonena glava sabja ne ja seche". Sergej Vlahov's
1998 dictionary of proverbs gives the Russian equivalent "povinnuju
golovy (i) mech ne sechet".

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-- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140
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