<Li> Romanian: Nu poți împăca și capra și varza--You can't reconcile the goat and the cabbage . Also, Și cu tigaia unsă și cu slănina în pod - To have the pan greased and the lard in the attic (or the more vulgar version: Şi cu dânsa - ntr - însa, şi cu sufletu - n rai - To have' it' in' it' and the soul in heaven .) </Li> <Li> Russian: И рыбку съесть, и в воду не лезть--wanting to eat a fish without first catching it from the waters . </Li> <Li> Serbian: Не можеш да имаш и јаре и паре--You can't have both goatling and money, and Не можеш сести с једним дупетом на две столице--You can't sit on two chairs with one butt . </Li> <Li> Spanish: Querer estar en misa y en procesión--wishing to be both at mass and in the procession, and estar en misa y repicando (or estar en misa y tocar la campana--to be both at mass and in the belfry, bell - ringing . <Ul> <Li> Argentina: la chancha y los veinte--the pig and the twenties . (Comes from the old piggybanks for children that used to contain coins of 20 cents . The only way to get the coins was to break the piggybank open--hence the phrase . This can be emphasized by adding y la máquina de hacer chorizos--and the machine to make sausage . </Li> </Ul> </Li>

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