🤖 Literally, in English
“To show someone where the crayfish spend the winter.”
Показати, де раки зимують. Pokazaty, de raky zymuyut
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“To teach someone a lesson.”
also: “To show them who they're dealing with.” · “To make someone regret it.”
- 📖 Meaning
- To punish someone or show them how serious you are.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- As a threat it is completely opaque: the promised punishment is a guided tour of crayfish wintering habits.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. English has 'to teach someone a lesson' and 'to sort someone out', but neither is an idiom in the same sense — they are plain phrases. The crayfish image has no English counterpart.
- 📝 Explanation
- A threat, usually more theatrical than real. Common in arguments and in the mouths of angry grandmothers.
🧠 Learn
- teach someone a lesson (phrase) — to punish someone so they don't repeat something — провчити “That fine taught him a lesson.”
- threat (noun) — a statement that you will hurt or punish someone — погроза “It was an empty threat.”
🗣 In context
Ще раз таке зробиш — покажу, де раки зимують.
Do that again and I'll teach you a lesson.
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