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0 I don't know this as a common expression, but the meaning would be that you have to make a decision which course of action to take, and stick to it. 0-

0 To me, it would be like "to kill two birds with one stone" - doing two things at the same time, but with a more negative connotation that it is not possible to do the two things properly.0-

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00it could be something like "You can't have the barrel full of wine and your wife drunk" (It's a translation from Italian, either you have the barrel full of wine or your wife drunk, you can't have both).02br
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00You can't ride two horses with just one ***. So you can't have/do both things, you have to choose, either one or the other.02br
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0 This proverb is Russian and absolutely meaningless to an English native speaker. Best bet would be not to consider using it ever.0-

0 That may be true - but can you give some idea of what it is expressing?0-

0 01b01font00Might it be a reference to the Biblical idea of "serving two masters"?02font02b00 0-

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10I tend to agree, it’s meaningless. First, we don’t know if 00 00“***” meant a donkey or someone stupid or a jerk? If not, does it mea

It is like saying you can not have your cake and eat it two. I heard it from a hungarian. *** is refered to as oneself and horse being two different things, it has nothing to do with donkey.

Sorry for the delay, but I just saw this. Its origin is a Yiddish phrase, which here has been literally translated. The source word, tukhes, means a human derrier. You are taking this (I assume) to refer to a donkey. This means you can't do two things at once.