Subject | Russian | English |
proverb | нужда научит и калачи есть | hunger breaks stone walls (дословно: Голод и каменные стены рушит) |
proverb | нужда научит калачи есть | needs must when the devil drives |
proverb | нужда научит калачи есть | need makes the naked man run |
proverb | нужда научит калачи есть | hunger breaks stone walls |
proverb | нужда научит калачи есть | needs must |
proverb | нужда научит калачи есть | need makes the old wife trot |
proverb | нужда научит калачи есть | necessity is the mother of invention (need (and poverty) makes a man inventive, industrious (poverty and unemployment forced peasants of northern Russia – in the 18th century and earlier- to migrate and find work in the southern parts of the country where local people used to grow wheat – not rye – and therefore had white bread called " 'kalach'')) |