کار، کار انگلیسی‌هاست

Persian

Etymology

Popularized by the 1973 coming-of-age novel My Uncle Napoleon and its 1976 TV adaptation, featuring a buffoonish Iranian man (the eponymous Uncle Napoleon) who is irrationally paranoid that the British government is seeking to personally humiliate him.

Proverb

کار، کار انگلیسی‌هاست • (kâr, kâr-e engelisi-hâst) (Iran)

  1. (usually sarcastic) The English are behind it.

See also

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