Meaning of IF IT'S NOT ONE THING, IT'S ANOTHER - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

So we have this saying in English, "If it's not one thing, it's another.", and we use

Así que tenemos este dicho en inglés: "Si no es una cosa, es otra", y lo

this when things are going wrong and things keep going wrong.

usamos cuando las cosas van mal y siguen yendo mal.

So maybe you solve one problem but then another problem arises.

Entonces, tal vez resuelva un problema, pero luego surge otro problema.

So we would say, "If it's not one thing, it's another!", referring to the fact that if one

Entonces diríamos: "¡Si no es una cosa, es otra!", refiriéndose al hecho de que si una

thing going wrong or one thing going bad wasn't enough, there will be another thing that will

cosa sale mal o una cosa sale mal no es suficiente, habrá otra cosa que

go bad shortly.

saldrá mal en breve.

And normally I'm a pretty positive person but I just had a couple days where, "If it's

Y normalmente soy una persona bastante positiva, pero solo tuve un par de días en los que, "Si no es

not one thing, it's another.", would be a very, very good way to describe it.

una cosa, es otra", sería una muy, muy buena manera de describirlo.

On the farm we were trying to get hay made in our fields and different pieces of equipment

En la granja, estábamos tratando de obtener heno en nuestros campos y diferentes equipos

kept breaking and even this morning when we were picking up the hay bales we broke our

se rompían e incluso esta mañana, cuando estábamos recogiendo las pacas de heno, rompimos nuestro

wagon.

carro.

It was old anyways, but if it's not one thing it's another!

Era viejo de todos modos, ¡pero si no es una cosa es otra!