egyik kutya, másik eb

Hungarian

Etymology

Hungarian has two words for "dog", the current kutya and the older eb. Thus “one of them is a dog, the other is a hound”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˌɛɟːik ˈkucɒ ˌmaːʃik ˈɛb]

Phrase

egyik kutya, másik eb

  1. (idiomatic) six of one, half a dozen of the other (they are equally bad)

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