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на безрыбье и рак рыба stresses
gen.	in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed is a king (Сomandor)
Игорь Миг	in an empty field, a beetle is meat; in the land of all men, even your wife is a woman (MBerdy.17); even a mangy sheep's good for a little wool; you might as well take even the chaff from a skinny debtor; better a little than nothing at all; in the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king; when there's no one else, even dumb Tommy is a prince; a little is better than none
amer.	in a pickle, take the nickel (the idiom implies accepting any available option, even if it's not ideal, when in a difficult situation Taras)
idiom.	among the blind the one eyed man is king; there is a small choice in rotten apples; sma' fish is better than nane Scots (Alex Lilo); small fish is better than none (Alex Lilo)
proverb	better a small fish than an empty dish (used to mean: something is better than nothing, a little is better than none); half a loaf is better than none; half a loaf is better than no bread; better a bare foot than none; better one-eyed than stone-blind; better a lean jade than an empty halter; there is small choice in rotten apples; they that have no other meat, bread and butter are glad to eat; all's good in a famine; we'll make the best of what we have; we'll make the best of what there is; all is good in a famine (igisheva); they that have no other meat, gladly bread and butter eat (igisheva); a bad bush is better than the open field (igisheva); any port in a storm; all is fish that comes to his net; among the blind the one-eyed man is king; in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is the king; beggars can't be choosers (4uzhoj); in the land of the pigs the butcher is king (VLZ_58)
saying.	something is better than nothing (Anglophile)
на безрыбье и рак - рыба
gen.	a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; a sparrow in the hand is better than a cock on the roof; any port in a storm; better a dove on the plate than a woodgrouse in the mating place; better a tomtit in your hand than a crane in the sky; better an egg today than a hen tomorrow; half a loaf is better than no bread; when it is no fish even the cancer can be one; when it's no fish even the cancer can be one
на безрыбье и рак – рыба
idiom.	when it's no fish even the cancer can be one (Yeldar Azanbayev)
на безрыбьи и рак рыба
proverb	among the blind the one-eyed man is king (дословно: Кривой среди слепых-царь); in the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king (дословно: в стране слепых и одноглазый царь)