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1 GOOSE
• All is well and the goose hangs high - Все идет как по маслу (B), Дела идут - контора пишет (Д)• All one's geese are swans - Дитя хоть и криво, да отцу-матери мило (Д)• As is the goose so is the gander - Муж и жена - одна сатана (M)• Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high - Все идет как по маслу (B), Дела идут - контора пишет (Д)• Geese with geese, and women with women - Всяк сверчок знай свой шесток (B), Вяжись лычко с лычком, ремешок с ремешком (B), Гусь свинье не товарищ (Г), Знай, кошка, свое лукошко (3), Знай сорока сороку, ворона ворону (3), Не в свои сани не садись b (H), Сапог лаптю не брат (C), Сапог с сапогом, лапоть с лаптем (C), Черт попу не товарищ (4)• Goose hangs high (The) - Все идет как по маслу (B), Дела идут - контора пишет (Д)• He that has a goose will get a goose - Где много воды, там больше будет; где много денег - еще прибудет (r), Деньги к деньгам идут (Д)• If you cook your own goose, you will have to eat it - Сам кашу заварил, сам и расхлебывай (C)• Older the goose, the harder to pluck (The) - В могилу глядит, а над копейкой дрожит (B)• Setting goose has no feathers on her breast (A) - Не потопаешь, не полопаешь (H)• There is no goose so grey in the lake, that cannot find a gander for her make - Без пары не живут и гагары (B), Всякая невеста для своего жениха родится (B)• There's never a goose so old and gray but what a gander would wander her way - Без пары не живут и гагары (B), Всякая невеста для своего жениха родится (B)• Wild goose never laid a tame egg (A) - От худого семени не жди доброго племени (0), От худой курицы худые яйца (0) -
2 Дитя хоть и криво, да отцу-матери мило
Parents are partial to their children. See Всяк кулик свое болото хвалит (B)Var.: Всякому своё дитя милее. Своё дитя и горбато, да милоCf: All one's geese are swans (Am., Br.). The crow thinks her own bird fairest (Br.). The crow thinks her own bird the fairest (Am.). Each old crow thinks her young are the blackest (Am.). Every mother's duck is a swan (Am.). Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan (Br.). The owl thinks all her young ones beauties (Am.). The owl thinks her own young fairest (Br.). There's only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it (Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Дитя хоть и криво, да отцу-матери мило
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