Category: ანდაზები

While the cat is away the mice will play. The cat is absent, the mice dance (Am.). The mouse lordships where a cat is not (Br.). Rats will play while… Read more »

Asses fetch the oats and the horses eat them (Br.). Fools make feasts and wise men eat them (Am., Br.). I kill the boars, another enjoys their flesh (Br.). One… Read more »

Debt is the worst poverty. The debts go to the next heir. Laugh when you borrow and you’ll cry when you pay (Am.). You can run into debt, but you… Read more »

Another yet the same (Br.). It is all one (Br.). It is as broad as it’s long (as long as it’s broad) (Br.). It is six of one and half… Read more »

An oak is not felled at one stroke (Am.) An oak is not felled with one stroke (Br.). One stroke fells not an oak (Am.) Faire coup double, faire d’une… Read more »

An oak is not felled at one stroke (Am.) An oak is not felled with one stroke (Br.). One stroke fells not an oak (Am.) Faire coup double, faire d’une… Read more »

The tongue ever turns to the ailing tooth. A hungry lad would dream of bread, a hungry lass, of something else, a hungry man smells meat afar off (used (in… Read more »

A pig used to dirt turns up its nose at rice boiled in milk (Am.) Black will take no other hue (Am., Br.). A crow is never /the/ whiter for… Read more »

An angel on top but a devil underneath (Am.). Beauty may have fair leaves, but (yet) bitter fruit (Br.). A clean glove often hides a dirty hand (Am.). A fair… Read more »

A blind man can judge no (is no judge of) colors (Am.). Blind men can judge no colours (Br.). A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man… Read more »

Little strokes fell great oaks. Constant dripping wears away a stone (Am.). Constant dropping wears away a stone (Br.). Constant dropping wears away the stone (Am.). Drop by drop the… Read more »

Penny-wise and pound-foolish (Am., Br.). Penny-wise, pound-foolish (Am.) A penny soul never came to twopence (Br.). A penny soul never ‘came twopence (Am.). Save at the spigot and waste at… Read more »