Comment by ben_w
15 days ago
> Öküz saraya çıkınca kral olmaz. Ama saray ahır olur.
I like the saying, but why Turkish? It's known in English also.
15 days ago
> Öküz saraya çıkınca kral olmaz. Ama saray ahır olur.
I like the saying, but why Turkish? It's known in English also.
I'm sure it has a lot of sources, but it was popularized more recently as a mistranslated Circassian proverb, which caused a Turkish journalist to go to jail and then was picked up by various English news outlets.