Category: სხვა ანდაზები

Ask your purse what you should buy (Am.). Cut the coat according to the cloth (Am.). Cut your coat according to your cloth (Br.). Limit your wants by your wealth… Read more »

A black hen always lays (will lay) a white egg (Am.). A black hen lays a white egg (Br.). Crooked furrows grow straight grain (Am.). Spice is black but has… Read more »

lit. one hand washes the other; Claw me and I will claw thee; Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours; <You> Roll my log and I’ll roll yours; <You> Play… Read more »

The fruit of a good tree is also good (Am.). A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit (Br.) A tree is known by its fruit (Am., Br.) By their… Read more »

Bad luck often brings good luck (Br.). Behind bad luck comes good luck (Am.). Every bitter has its sweet (Am.). Every black has its white (Br.). Every cloud has a… Read more »

Gluttony has killed more than the sword. Feasting is the physician’s harvest (Am.). Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth (Am.). Many dishes make many diseases (Am.). Many dishes,… Read more »

Time cures all things. There is no grief that time will not soften (Br.). There is no pain so great that time will not soften (Am.). Time cures all griefs… Read more »

Modest dogs miss much meat. (Am.) Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty (Br.). Bashfulness is no use to the needy (Am.). Dumb folks (men) get no lands (Br.). Не that… Read more »

The best things (Everything) may be abused (Br.). Nothing is safe from fault-finders (Br.). Not one escapes unscathed (Am.). No wool is so white that a dyer cannot blacken it… Read more »

Even a wise man stumbles (Br.). Every man has a fool in his sleeve (Am.). Every man has a fool up his sleeve (Am., Br.). A good sailor may mistake… Read more »

The wise seek wisdom; the fool has found it (Am.) A big head and little wit (Br.). Big head and little wit (Am.). Big head, little sense (Am.). Mickle head,… Read more »

All covet, all lose. Faute de grives on mange des merles. Если у муравья вырастут крылья, взлетит и его саранча съест (досл.). У муравья перед смертью крылья вырастают (адыг.). Когда бог хочет погубить муравья, он даёт ему… Read more »

Dishonest gains are losses (Am.). An evil gain is equal to a loss (Am.). Evil gotten, evil spent (Am.). Evil won is evil lost (Am.). Не who steals will always… Read more »

Better belly burst than good victuals wasted (Br.). Better the belly burst than good drink (meat) lost (Br.). It’s better a belly burst than good food wasted (Am.) Ne te… Read more »

Lit: to grudge the food one eats. Trad : Une fois mangé mille fois reproché Ел один день, а упреков на сто лет (досл.). Lang essen und viel ist ein schlimmes… Read more »

Dry shoes won’t catch fish. Не that has to do with what is foul never comes away clean (Br.). Не who scrubs every pig he sees will not long be… Read more »

The shallow brook warbles, while the still water is deep (Am.). Smooth waters run deep (Br.). The stiller the water, the deeper it runs (Br.). Still water flows (runs) deep… Read more »