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Originally Posted by Al Blanco
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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Possible alternatives: "Fiddled while Rome burned"
"Being a grasshopper, not an ant" (from the Aesop fable about the grasshopper who played while the ants stored food for winter, who later starved during winter).