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Old 05-19-2008, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by polarbear31 View Post
i guess i'm not sure on this translation, is this saying of yours meant to chastise weak minded people by referring to them as peasants for not having the courage to take action?
In our version, not exactly (however, maybe it was so in the origin). In Russian it means that a person is too lazy or just doesn’t want to bother himself with thinking about possible problems. Only when they come he begins to doing something.
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