So controversial liver Sometimes I start to learn farsi. About twice a month I open a book "Farsi for begginers" and read the first chapter. Then I close it without any doubt that I will continue the next day. But some interesting facts about Iranian culture and language have managed to survive in my head. The phrase جیگر منه which is literally translated as "you are my liver" is one of it. In russian as in the most european languages you usually say "you are my heart" when you want to say that a person is extremely valuable to you. But about someone very annoying we say "he is in my liver". Afterall now I know how to adress to my wife and little doughters at the moments when it seems too difficult to me to love them all: you are my lovely livers!