Russian ⇄ Czech Dutch English French German Italian Japanese Latvian Polish Spanish Tajik Vietnamese

лес рубят – щепки летят stresses
gen.	you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs; you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
idiom.	you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
proverb	one you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; one you cannot make an omelettes without breaking eggs; if you sell the cow you will sell her milk too; you can't chop wood without making the chips fly; splinters will fly when the axe you ply; you can't make omelet without breaking eggs; you can't make omelette without breaking eggs; More rubble, less trouble (употребляется применительно к войне США в Ираке SergeyL); omelettes are not made without breaking eggs (13.05); you can't make an omelet without breaking the egg; you cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs
quot.aph.	you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs (традиционный перевод слов Ленина и впоследствии Сталина Рина Грант)
slang	shit rolls downhill (англ. версия вульгарна Баян)