mi o vuku

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Literally, “we (are talking) about the wolf”, with the verb implied but left unexpressed, an ellipsis of mi o vuku a vuk na vrata (literally “we(’re talking) about the wolf and the wolf is at the door”).

Proverb

mi o vuku (Cyrillic spelling ми о вуку)

  1. speak of the devil
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