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1 throw nature out of the door, it will come back again through the window
var: you can drive out Nature with a pitch-fark, but it keeps coming backthough you cast out nature with a fork, it will still returnsyn: what is bred in the bone will come out in the fleshзаступи природу дверима, то вона тобі вікном the leopard cannot change his spotsEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > throw nature out of the door, it will come back again through the window
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2 the leopard cannot change his spots
syn: the wolf may change his coat but not his dispositionthrow nature out of the door, it will come back again through the window≅ гадюка вмирає, а зілля хватає природу тяжко одмінити хоч вовк линяє, та норов не міняє горбатого могила виправить горбатого до стіни не приставиш криве дерево не дужо випрямитись з чорної кішки білої не зробиш хто родився вовком, тому лисицею не бути який удався, такий й згинеш яке в колиску, таке в могилку you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear nature will have its course throw nature out of the door, it will come back again through the windowEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > the leopard cannot change his spots
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