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| Russian | English |
| ночная кукушка дневную перекукует | the cuckoo that sings at night is the loudest cuckoo all right |
| ночная кукушка дневную перекукует | the night cuckoo would outcuckoo any day cuckoo (a wife has more opportunities than other people of convincing her man of what he has to do and what he must not) |