
Annotation:
(sarcastic) said as a retort to someone saying hey (any sense of the interjection), used to indicate that the speaker disapproves of the usage of the word "hey", perhaps due to a dislike of informal speech.
Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hay_is_for_horses

@marafon
Would this work as a non-literal translation?
На «эй» зовут лошадей.
https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/...B4%D0%B5%D0%B9

It looks like a good match. However, I've never heard this expression before.
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