we tried our best-you know the rest(иронично о благих намерениях, которые привели к скромным или плохим результатам (выражение, которое, по всеобщему признанию, первоначально употребил бывший премьер-министр России в. Черномырдин) used in reference to the natural tendency of things to go wrong in Russia (the saying is attributed to former Russian Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin))
we wanted the best, but things turned out as usual; we tried our best-you know the rest(иронично о благих намерениях, которые привели к скромным или плохим результатам (выражение, которое, по всеобщему признанию, первоначально употребил бывший премьер-министр России в. Черномырдин) used in reference to the natural tendency of things to go wrong in Russia (the saying is attributed to former Russian Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin))
The road to hell is paved with good intentions(Well-intended acts can have disastrous results. This proverbial idiom probably derives from a similar statement by St. Bernard of Clairvaux about 1150, L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs ("Hell is full of good intentions or wishes"), and has been repeated ever since. [Late 1500s] • She tried to help by defending Dad's position and they haven't spoken since—the road to hell is paved with good intentionsdictionary.comAlexander Demidov)
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