НаКана́рах —лу́чше,чемнана́рах. ―Na Kanárax — lúčše, čem nanárax. ―It's better to retire and leave the country than go toprison. (literally, “It's better to be on the Canaries than inprison.”)
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “нары”, inOleg Trubachyov, transl.,Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress