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silvercat17 ([personal profile] silvercat17) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlists 2022-07-20 08:48 pm (UTC)

If people are interested in slightly more literal translations, here you go (sourced from http://masterrussian.com/proverbs/russian_proverbs.htm)

1. A team's pot boils denser
2. (same)
3. (same)
4. It will snap where it's thinnest
5. (same)
6. (same)
7. (same)
8. One shouldn't beat the one who fell.
9. Hope for God, but do not be reliant.
10. The scythe has hit a stone.
11. Holy place is never empty.
12. The tale is told quickly, but the job is done slowly.
13. (same)
14. Quality goods advertise themselves.
15. What is to be, can't be avoided.

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