In other words, “put your money where your mouth is.” Wolves and bears pop up in Russian proverbs a lot. What better way to translate this one than “out of the frying pan and into the fire”?

Russia’s wolf population is the highest in the world. It’s no wonder that these gray forest dwellers have appeared in so many ...

And, more importantly, into demographic study? From a bulk of almost 6,000 of original Gaelic, 12,000 of Russian and more than 40,000 proverbs collected in different regions of Europe, Asia and Africa ...