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браться не за свое дело

to get in over one's head, to be the wrong man for the job

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А коли так, так и соваться не надо было; нечего не за свое дело браться.
If so you ought not to have got into this coil.It's no use taking up a job you are not fit for.
Достоевский, Фёдор / Преступление и наказаниеDostoevsky, Fyodor / Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
© 2009 Rhodes Media
Преступление и наказание
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1970
- Ваш Михайло Тимофеич человек непонимающий, - говорил вполголоса Кузьмичов, - не за свое дело берется, а вы понимаете и можете рассудить.
"Your Mihailo Timofevitch is a man who doesn't understand business," said Kuzmitchov in an undertone; "he undertakes what isn't his work, but you understand and can judge.
Chekhov, A. / The steppeЧехов, А.П. / Степь
Степь
Чехов, А.П.
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1974
The steppe
Chekhov, A.
© BiblioBazaar, LLC

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браться не за свое дело
to get in over one's head; to be the wrong man for the job

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