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Наши зрители живут по принципу - "делу - время, потехе - час".

English translation: business before pleasure

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Russian term or phrase:	делу - время, потехе - час
English translation:	business before pleasure
Entered by:	David Knowles

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18:03 Nov 26, 2005

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Russian term or phrase: Наши зрители живут по принципу - "делу - время, потехе - час".

I can't think of a catchy way to say this in English. The meaning is clear (our viewers are busy people who don't spend much time in leisure or watching TV) but the closest I've come to saying this is "Time is money", and I don't think that will do.

David Knowles KudoZ activity Questions: 167 (none open) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 3309
Local time: 16:08

business before pleasure

Explanation:

Selected response from:

Sergei_A
Local time: 11:08

Grading comment

Thanks for this, Sergei_A - obvious really! I got rid of the boring "principle", and put "They are people for whom time is money, who put business before pleasure".
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Summary of answers provided

3 +8

business before pleasure

Sergei_A

as seen on the T-shirt

Vladimir Dubisskiy

Discussion entries: 1

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15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

Наши зрители живут по принципу -

business before pleasure

Explanation:

Sergei_A
Local time: 11:08
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks for this, Sergei_A - obvious really! I got rid of the boring "principle", and put "They are people for whom time is money, who put business before pleasure".

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Andrey Belousov

1 min

agree

Nik-On/Off: How about this: live up to the business-before-pleasure principle?

7 mins

-> My version: "Our audience lives according to the principle "business before pleasure".

agree

Sentry

1 hr

agree

tanyazst

1 hr

agree

Сергей Лузан: Business before pleasure. Делу время, потехе час. http://learningrussian.com/phrasearc.htm pleasure must not be allowed to interfere with business http://lividict.org/lookup/interfere.html

2 hrs

agree

Sergei Tumanov

4 hrs

agree

Mikhail Kropotov: To Dima: to live up to something means to achieve something that you promised... not applicable here

19 hrs

agree

Olga B: to Michael: Actually Dima was right: live up to 1) жить, действовать согласно принципам и т. п. ). It's not necessarily "to achieve". I would, however, suggest: follow the principle of / keep to the principle of

22 hrs

1 day9 hrs confidence:

Наши зрители живут по принципу - as seen on the T-shirt

Explanation:
I've had the T-shirt once with the following:

"No time for bullshit".

Might fit except for too expressive ending, sorry.

Vladimir Dubisskiy
Local time: 10:08
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian
PRO pts in category: 4

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