Category: ზ – ი

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. All things are easy, that are done willingly (Am.). It is easy to do what one’s own self wills (Br.). Nothing is impossible… Read more »

If  we can’t as we would, we must do as we can. Si tu ne peux pas faire  comme tu veux fais comme tu peux. Когда нет раба, и сам… Read more »

Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet. Health is not valued till sickness comes. Qui n’a jamais gouté amer, ne sait pas ce qu’est doux. Кто не болел, тот не ценит здоровье. (абхазская… Read more »

Like a cat on hot bricks. Like a cat on a hot tin roof. Comme un chat sur les briques chauds. être sur des épines. Сидеть как на иголках. Словно… Read more »

Accidents will happen in the best regulated  families . No house without mouse (Br.). No larder but has its mice (Br.). There is a skeleton in every house (Am., Br.)…. Read more »

Every man is a master at one trade  . On ne peut pas prendre d’un sac deux moutons. У каждого человека своя  сноровка (досл.) Кто на что способен (досл.) Кто… Read more »

Add not fire to fire. Add not oil to the fire. Pour not oil on flame (on the fire). Tо pour oil on the fire is not the way to… Read more »

Long absent, soon forgotten. Far from eye, far from heart. Out of sight, out of mind. What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over. Absence makes the heart… Read more »

An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth (Bible) A Roland for an Oliver. Measure for measure. Oeil pour œil, dent pour… Read more »

Between two evils this is not worth choosing. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. (Iron.) Another yet the same (Br.). Between… Read more »

No man is a hero in his hometown (to his wife or his butler) (Am.). No man is a hero to his valet (Am., Br.). No prophet is accepted in… Read more »

The fish dies at the head. The fish always stinks from the head downward (Br.). Fish begins to stink at the head (Am., Br.). The fish stinks first in the… Read more »

Cover yourself with honey and the flies will fasten on you. Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you (Br.). Make yourself honey and flies will devour you… Read more »

Mutual admiration society. Scratch my back and I will scratch yours.  On ne loue d’ordinaire que pour etre loué. Gratte-moi l’épaule et je l’eu ferai autant. Рука руку моет. Услуга… Read more »

A fool’s tongue is long enough to cut his own throat. An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue. Birds are entangled by their feet,… Read more »

Neither praise nor dispraise yourself, your actions serve the turn. L’homme est jugé d’après ses affaires. Self praise is no recommendation. Actions speak louder than words. Хвали лавку – товар… Read more »

Make yourself at home. Feel quite at home. To be in one’s element. to take to something like a duck to water. Il est là comme rat en paille. Il… Read more »

A man can do no more than he can. A nail can go no farther than its head will let it (Am.). No man can see over his height (Br.)…. Read more »

A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison. Better poor with honor than rich with shame (Am.). A penny by right is better than a thousand by… Read more »

None so blind as those who won’t see. We see a mote in other men’s eyes when there’s a beam in our own (Br.). We see a mote in our… Read more »