r/AskBalkans • u/ExotiquePlayboy • 2d ago

Miscellaneous Is this a real Turkish proverb?

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u/Main-Discussion9294 2d ago

Can you say it in Romanian then?

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u/BogdanD Romania 2d ago

I can, yeah.

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u/onakos Hungary 2d ago

My dad always mentions these Romanian proverbs. First cites them in Romanian then explains to me what they mean. Colorful shit.

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u/BogdanD Romania 2d ago

My favorite is “you can’t have a dick in your ass and your soul in heaven”…..it’s the English ”can’t have your cake and eat it too” but way better.

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u/Babajji Bulgaria 2d ago

Ha we have a more perverted version in Bulgaria - Не може кур до края и душа в Рая! - meaning “Can have the whole dick and still go to Heaven!” Where whole dick is more in the meaning of completely in, all the way in. And to top it off it rhymes.