Your Elbow is Close

In Russian, if you’re talking about something that’s near and seemingly within reach but you still can’t obtain or change it, there’s a great expression that translates as your elbow is close but you can’t bite it.

Oh, yeah.

I saw one recently that was something about a horse trying to lick its ear.

It’s similar.

Oh, there you go.

But it’s about the impossibility of something, you know, like kind of a pig’s fly saying.

Yeah, so close, right?

Yeah.

The world is filled with odd sayings.

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