🤖 Literally, in English
“The task is afraid of the master.”
Діло майстра боїться. Dilo maystra boyitsia
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“In the right hands it's easy.”
also: “A professional makes it look simple.” · “Give it to someone who knows what they're doing.”
- 📖 Meaning
- A skilled person makes difficult work look easy.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- It turns the task into a frightened creature, which is a great deal of respect to show a piece of plumbing.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'a good workman knows his tools' and 'leave it to the professionals', but nothing that says the job itself is intimidated by competence. The image is specific to this saying.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said admiringly while watching someone competent work quickly.
🧠 Learn
- make it look easy (phrase) — to do something difficult so well that it seems simple — робити легко й невимушено “She makes public speaking look easy.”
- skilled (adjective) — having the training and ability to do something well — вправний, кваліфікований “A skilled carpenter built it.”
🗣 In context
Він полагодив за п'ять хвилин. Діло майстра боїться.
He fixed it in five minutes. In the right hands it's easy.
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