798 sats \ 0 replies \ @handsome_latino 4 Sep 2023 \ on: What are your favorite idioms? meta
"доверяй, но проверяй"
(Trust, but verify , in Russian: , tr. doveryay, no proveryay)
That's where our extremely common "don't trust, verify" comes from. Suzanne Massie taught it to Reagan in the golden age of pop music. Honestly it's a good way to handle social interactions in the meatspace (hopefully we're all making sure we get our daily dose of them, right?).
Not trusting anyone makes you a sour and kills you from the inside.
"Me cago en todo"
lit. I shit on everything, meaning fuck me
百聞不如一見 (bai wen bu ru yi jian)
lit seeing once is better than hearing it a hundred times, meaning seeing is believing. Useful in today's world where everyone blindly follows MSM (or random unqualified internet celebrities).
BTW none are AI generated. All are in languages that I know a bit about :)