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1 leisure
n1) дозвілляlife of leisure — дозвільне (бездіяльне) життя
2) вільний час* * *nдозвілля; вільний час -
2 leisure
['leʒə]n1) дозві́лляat leisure — на дозві́ллі; не поспіша́ючи
to be at leisure — бу́ти ві́льним (неза́йнятим)
do it at your leisure — зробі́ть це, коли́ вам бу́де зру́чно
2) attr. ві́льнийleisure time — ві́льний час, дозві́лля
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3 _шлюб; дім; сім'я
accidents will happen in the best regulated families a bad husband cannot be a good man before you go in double harness, look well to the other horse better one house spoiled than two big houses have small families, and small houses big families a blind man's wife needs no paint the calmest husbands take the stormiest wives choose your love, then love your choice choose your man as you choose your shoes – for comfort and long wear a deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple don't marry a girl who wants strawberries in January each husband gets the infidelity he deserves earlier wed, sooner dead every family has a black sheep every man can tame a shrew but he that has one everyone can keep house better than her mother until she tries the father is the guest who best becomes the table first thrive and then wife a friend married is a friend lost a good husband makes a good wife the grey mare is the better horse happy is the bride that the sun shines on he that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man he who has a fair wife needs more than two eyes honest men marry soon, wise men not at all he that marries a widow and four children marries four thieves he that takes a wife takes a care he that tells his wife news is but newly wed he that will thrive must first ask his wife he who marries for wealth sells his liberty the husband is always the last to know the husband is the head of the house, but the wife is the neck and the neck moves the head if you wish praise, die; if you wish blame, marry it is not every couple that is a pair keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards a kind wife makes a faithful husband the Lord makes a man, but the wife makes a husband love takes away the sight, and matrimony restores it a man is newly married who tells his wife everything marriage goes by contrasts marriage is a lottery marriage makes or mars a man marriages are made in heaven marry above your match and you get a master marry in haste, and repent at leisure marry a handsome man and you marry trouble marry late or never marry your son when you please and your daughter when you can men are what their mothers made them most men get as good a wife as they deserve the mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law never interfere with family quarrels never marry for money, but marry where money is a nurse spoils a good housewife nurses put one bit in the child's mouth and two in their own observe the mother and take the daughter put not your hand between the bark and the tree a shotgun marriage won't last longer than the honeymoon sweet-talk to the old lady to get to the daughter there are as many good stepmothers as white ravens there is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks he has her to marry once is a duty, twice is folly, thrice is madness the woman who obeys her husband rules him want makes strife between man and wife when going to sea, pray once; when going to war, pray twice; when going to be married, pray thrice when the husband earns well, the wife spends well when you get married you tie a knot with your tongue that you can't untie with your teeth where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage whoever is tired of a happy day, let him take a wifeEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _шлюб; дім; сім'я
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4 _лінощі; недбалість
at open doors dogs come in the devil finds work for idle hands to do do not wait for a rainy day to fix your roof drowsiness dresses a man is rags an idle brain is the devil's workshop idle folks have the most labor idle folks lack no excuses idle people have the least leisure idleness goes in rags idleness makes the wit rust laziness travels so slow that poverty overtakes him lazy folks' stomachs don't get tired a lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy a long thread, a lazy tailor sloth is the mother of poverty sloth is the mother of vice sloth makes all things difficult, but industry makes all things easy they must hunger in winter that will not work in summerEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _лінощі; недбалість
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5 _праця; справа та відпочинок
all lay load on the willing horse all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all work is noble at the workingman's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter a bad shearer never had a good sickle the best fish are near the bottom the best way to get rid of work is to do it better to be idle than badly employed the busiest men have the most leisure business before pleasure business is to grown men what blocks are to children the cat would eat fish, but would not wet her feet the cobbler should stick to his last every man to his trade everybody's business is nobody's business fools and bairns should never see half-done work a good horse should be seldom spurred grasp all, lose all he that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities he who does not work, neither shall he eat he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree a hired horse never tires if you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow if you want a thing well done do it yourself if you would have your business done, go; if not, send in doing we learn it is working that makes a workman Jack of all trades is master in none the labourer is worthy of his hire a man can do no more than he can a man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds many hands make work light the more boys that help, the less work they do never do things by halves never send a boy to do a man's job practice makes perfect Rome was not built in a day a short horse is soon curried there are tricks in every trade they must hunger in winter that will not work in summer two of a trade never agree what is a workman without his tools? what is worth doing at all is worth doing well what may be done at any time will be done at no time when pleasure is the business of life, it ceases to be pleasure a wise man without work is a bee without honey a woman's work is never done work is not the curse, but drudgery is work is the only capital that never misses dividends work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it the workman is known by his work you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs you never know what you can do till you tryEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _праця; справа та відпочинок
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