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1 can the leopard change his spots? you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Пословица: горбатого могила исправит (one cannot correct someone else's bad habits or stupid convictions, a bad man will die a bad man), горбатого одна могила исправит (one cannot correct someone else's bad habits or stupid convictions, a bad man will die a bad man)Универсальный англо-русский словарь > can the leopard change his spots? you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
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2 горбатого одна могила исправит
Set phrase: can the leopard change his spots? you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear (one cannot correct someone else's bad habits or stupid convictions, a bad man will die a bad man), he who is born a fool is never cured (contrast: true blue will never stain), only the grave can straighten the hunchback, the thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a thief, the wolf may change his coat, but not his disposition, the wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature, what is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh, what is bred in the bone will not go out of the fleshУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > горбатого одна могила исправит
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Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary