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1 dress a monkey as you will, it remains a monkey still
var: a monkey remains a monkey though dressed in ajudge's gownsyn: an ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet≅ коронувати блазня – не значить зробити його королемEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > dress a monkey as you will, it remains a monkey still
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2 MONKEY
• Dress a monkey as you will, it remains a monkey still - Как свинью в кафтан ни ряди, она свиньей останется (K)• Monkeys in hard times eat red peppers - Голодному Федоту и репа в охоту (Г) -
3 a monkey remains a monkey though dressed in ajudge's gown
English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > a monkey remains a monkey though dressed in ajudge's gown
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4 an ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet
English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > an ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet
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the best government is that in which the law speaks instead of the lawyer better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven a crown is no cure for a headache divide and rule dress a monkey as you will, it remains a monkey still everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over fish begins to stink at the head the great fish eat up the small he sits not sure that sits too high he that cannot obey cannot command high places have their precipices the higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail if you can't command yourself, you can't command others it is better for a town to be governed by a good man than by good laws it is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope the king can do no wrong kings have long arms a new broom sweeps clean the pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God the statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician sudden power is apt to be insolent, sudden liberty saucy; that behaves best which has grown gradually that government is best which governs least -
6 Как свинью в кафтан ни ряди, она свиньей останется
Refining a man's appearance does not make him nobler or wiser. See Кляча и в золотой узде не конь (K), Наряди свинью хоть в серьги, а она все в навоз пойдет (H), На свинью хоть седло надень - все конем не будет (H), Осел ослом остается и в орденах, и в лентах (O), Пень - так пень, хоть золотое платье надень (П), Постригся кот, намылся кот, а все тот же кот (П)Cf: An ape is an ape, a varlet is a varlet, though they be clad in silk and scarlet (Am.). An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet (Br.). An ass is an ass, though laden with gold (Am.). An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold (Br.). A boor remains a boor though he sleeps on a silken bolster (Br.). Dress a monkey as you will, it remains a monkey still (Am.). A golden bit does not make a horse any better (Br.). A golden bit does not make the horse any better (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Как свинью в кафтан ни ряди, она свиньей останется
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