не попросишь-не получишь

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Subject	Russian	English
saying.	не попросишь-не получишь	if you don't ask, you won't get (george serebryakov)
saying.	не попросишь-не получишь	a closed mouth doesn't get fed (A saying popular among adults, which means if you do not open your mouth you will not get what it is you want. george serebryakov)
lit.	Саймон, Саймон Простота побежал за ворота, / Попросил у купца пирога и леденца. / А купец-то: "Пирожки продаём за пятачки. / Если нету пятачка, не получишь пирожка". / Саймон, Саймон Простота захотел поймать кита / И забросил удочку в ведро и кружечку.	Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair: / Says Simple Simon to the pieman, / 'Let me taste your ware.' / Says the pieman to Simple Simon, / 'Show me first your penny', / Says Simple Simon to the pieman, / 'Indeed I have not any.' / Simple Simon went a-fishing, for to catch a whale, / All the water he had got was in his mother's pail.