Category: ანბანური საძიებელი

A blate cat, a proud mouse (Br.). A bon chat bon rat. One nail drives out another; Fight fire with fire; Take a hair of the dog that bit you…. Read more »

Keep a thing seven years and you will find an  use for it. Lay things by, they may come to use. Everything is of use to a housekeeper (Br.). Keep… Read more »

Butter to butter is no relish (Br.). Too good is stark nought (Br.). Too much of a good thing is worse than none at all (Am.). Too much of one… Read more »

Every family has a black sheep (Br.). An idiot – they happen in the best of families (Am.). It is a strange wood that never has a withered bough in… Read more »

Every family has a black sheep (Br.). An idiot – they happen in the best of families (Am.). It is a strange wood that never has a withered bough in… Read more »

Close as an oyster(wax). Silent as a grave. Muet comme une carpe. Думала рыба: «Сказала бы что-нибудь, да воды полон рот» (осет.). Спела бы и рыбка песенку, когда бы голос… Read more »

One keeps numb  as fish. Close as an oyster(wax). Silent as a grave. Muet comme une carpe. Думала рыба: «Сказала бы что-нибудь, да воды полон рот» (осет.). Спела бы и… Read more »

Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much. Faint heart never won fair lady (Am., Br.). A bold heart is half the battle (Br.). Cheek brings success (Br.). Courage wins (Br.)…. Read more »

He that is full of himself is very empty. He that praises himself spatters himself. Let another man praise you /, and not your mouth (not yourself)/ Man’s praise in… Read more »

Breed up a crow and he will peck out your eyes (Br.). Do no good and you shall find no evil (Am.). No good deed goes unpunished (Am.). Save a… Read more »

Breed up a crow and he will peck out your eyes (Br.). Do no good and you shall find no evil (Am.). No good deed goes unpunished (Am.). Save a… Read more »

It takes two to make a quarrel. La belle-mère et la belle-fille peuvent cuisiner ensemble mais ils ne seront jamais tendres Entre belle-mere et belle –fille il y a toujours… Read more »

      Misfortunes can not be avoided What can’t be cured must be endured The drop wears away the stone; cf.littlestrokesfellgreat Goutte à goutte l’eau creuse la pierre. L’égouttement… Read more »

Не that knows nothing, doubts nothing (Br.). Не who knows nothing never doubts (Am.) L’ignorance, c’est comme la science, ça n’a pas de bornes. Celui qui ne sait rien n’a… Read more »

Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard. Give him a finger and he’ll take the whole arm. Give him a ring, and he’ll want your whole arm. Give… Read more »

The Devil protects his own. Devil is ever kind to (is fond of, is good to, is kind to, looks after, protects, takes care of) his own. Le Diable ne… Read more »