голь на выдумки хитра

• ГОЛЬ НА ВЫДУМКИ ХИТРА{{}}

[saying]

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⇒ the shortage or absence of sth. forces a person to be resourceful:

- ≈ necessity is the mother of invention.

     ♦ Это было, конечно, очень сложным, дорогим и неудобным решением. Но это было решением!.. Поистине печальная русская поговорка "голь на выдумки хитра" оправдалась здесь с полной точностью! (Владимиров 1). It was, of course, a very complicated, costly and clumsy solution of the problem. But it was a solution none the less. ...There is in Russian as in English a saying that "necessity is the mother of invention," and it seemed on this occasion to have been demonstrated in practice (1a).