Category: მსგავსი მსგავსს შობს

Sour grapes can never make sweet wine (Am.). You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear (Am., Br.) Quiconque aime une biche prend cette biche pour Minerve…. Read more »

Eagles do not breed doves (Br.). Figs do not grow on thistles (Am.). One cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles (Br.). Of a thorn springs not a… Read more »

Eagles do not breed doves (Br.). Figs do not grow on thistles (Am.). Sour grapes can never make sweet wine (Am.). You cannot make a silk purse out of a… Read more »

A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often. What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. Le corbeau ne devient pas plus blanc en… Read more »

What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often. Le corbeau ne devient pas plus blanc en… Read more »

Bad bird, bad eggs (Am.). Good can never grow out of bad (evil) (Br.). Good fruit never comes from a bad tree (Am., Br.). No good apple on a sour… Read more »

Bad bird, bad eggs (Am.). Good can never grow out of bad (evil) (Br.). Good fruit never comes from a bad tree (Am., Br.). No good apple on a sour… Read more »

Bad bird, bad eggs. Of an evil crow an evil egg. Children are what their mothers are (Am.). Like hen, like chicken (Am.). Like hen, like children (Br.) Tel père… Read more »

Sour grapes can never make sweet wine (Am.). You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear (Am., Br.) Eagles do not breed doves (Br.). Figs do not… Read more »

Eagles do not breed doves (Br.). Figs do not grow on thistles (Am.). One cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles (Br.). Of a thorn springs not a… Read more »

As the tree, so the fruit. De doux arbres doux pommes. Tel père tel fils. Tel arbre, tel fruit. Яблоко от яблони недалеко падает. От доброго дерева добрый и плод. От яблоньки яблочко, а… Read more »

Tarred with the same brush. Like father, like son. Tel père tel fils. Каков отец, таков и молодец. Каково семя, таково и племя. Куда матушка, туда и дитятко. У доброго батюшки добры и детки…. Read more »

Every cask smells of the wine it contains. Eagles do not breed doves (Br.). Figs do not grow on thistles (Am.). One cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs of… Read more »

A chip of the old block. Like begets like. An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig to a pig (Br.). An ass to an ass is beautiful… Read more »

A tree is known by its fruit. Like father, like son. As mother and father, so is daughter and son (Am.). As is the mother, so is the daughter (Am.)…. Read more »

Such carpenters, such chips. As the tree, so the fruit. Tel arbre tel fruit. Tel père tel fils. Каково дерево, таковы и щепки (досл.). Каково, дерево, таковы и сучья. Каковы сады, таковы плоды. Каково дерево, таковы и цветочки, каковы родители,… Read more »

Son of the cat pursues the rat. That that comes of a cat will catch mice. Не that comes of a hen, must scrape (Br.). Не that is born by… Read more »

Bad bird, bad eggs (Am.). Good can never grow out of bad (evil) (Br.). Good fruit never comes from a bad tree (Am., Br.). No good apple on a sour… Read more »

Like parents, like children. Like father, like son. Like mother, like daughter. As the tree, so the fruit. Tel grain, tel pain Tel père tel fils Tel maitre tel valet…. Read more »

Can the leopard change his spots Eagles do not breed doves (Br.) Figs do not grow on thistles (Am.) One cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles (Br.)… Read more »