🤖 Literally, in English
“Every sandpiper praises its own swamp.”
Кожен кулик своє болото хвалить. Kozhen kulyk svoye boloto khvalyt
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Everyone thinks their own place is the best.”
also: “Everyone talks up their own patch.” · “We all think our own corner is special.”
- 📖 Meaning
- People always say good things about their own town, company or team, because it is theirs.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The bird is not praising a beautiful lake — it is praising a swamp, which quietly admits that the place being defended is not actually that nice.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'there's no place like home', but that is warm and sincere. The Ukrainian is gently mocking — it says the person is biased, not that home is lovely. No single English idiom carries that eye-roll.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said with amusement when someone praises their home region, their employer or their football club a little too confidently.
🧠 Learn
- biased (adjective) — unfairly favouring one side — упереджений “I'm biased — she's my daughter.”
- talk something up (phrase) — to praise something to make it sound better — розхвалювати “He always talks up his own company.”
🗣 In context
Він каже, що їхнє місто найкраще. Ну, кожен кулик своє болото хвалить.
He says their town is the best. Well, everyone thinks their own place is the best.
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