꿩 먹고 알 먹고 (Kkwong meokgo al meokgo)
Meaning: Getting two benefits from one action.
Language: Korean
Literally: Eating the pheasant and its egg too
Category: Animals
Origin: Korean folk proverb about hunting efficiency.
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- Медвежья услуга (Medvezhya usluga) — Help that actually makes things worse.
- Тянуть кота за хвост (Tyanut' kota za khvost) — To procrastinate; to drag something out.
- Делать из мухи слона (Delat' iz mukhi slona) — To blow things way out of proportion.
- 对牛弹琴 (duì niú tán qín) — Reasoning with someone who cannot understand.
- 画蛇添足 (huà shé tiān zú) — To ruin something by adding unnecessary extras.
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- 종로에서 뺨을 맞고 강남역에서 화낸다 (Jongno-eseo ppyameul matgo Gangnamyeok-eseo hwanaenda) — Venting frustration on innocent people due to humiliation elsewhere; displaced anger towa…
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