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| Russian | English |
| хороша Маша, да не наша | it's no use bursting with envy |
| хороша Маша, да не наша | the girl looks fine, but she isn't mine! |
| хороша Маша, да не наша | it is good fish if it were but caught (said (often: with a humorous envy or ironically) to mean: this good thing (or this beautiful girl) belongs neither to me nor to you: it is somebody else's property though it is very good) |