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1 _багатство і бідність
abundance, like want, ruins many at the workingman's house hunger looks in but dares not enter a beggar can never be bankrupt a beggar ennobled does not know his kinsmen beggar is jealous of beggar beggars can't be choosers a beggar's purse is bottomless chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor the doorstep of a great house is slippery few rich men own their own property – their property owns them a full purse has many friends full stomachs make empty heads God help the rich, for the poor can beg gold dust blinds all eyes gold is tested by fire, men by gold gold may be bought too dear gold rules the world gold will not buy everything a great fortune is a great slavery a handkerchief is a poor woman's purse hunger breaks stone walls hunger is the best sauce hunger knows no friends a hungry belly has no ears if you haven't silver in your purse, you should have silk on your tongue it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven life and misery begin together a light purse is a heavy purse the more we have, the more we want, the more we want, the less we have much gold, much care much profit, much risk naked we come, naked we go neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him, who has been a servant old woman's gold is not ugly one day a beggar, the next day a thief a poor man is better than a liar the poor man pays for all poor men's tables are soon set possession is nine points of the law poverty consists in feeling poor poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience poverty is no sin poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is poverty is the mother of all arts poverty parts friends prosperity discovers vice, adversity virtue prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them a rich man never lacks relatives a rich man knows not his friends a rich person ought to have a strong stomach rich men have no faults riches and virtue do not often keep each other company riches serve a wise man but command a fool a rising tide lifts all boats set a beggar on horseback and he will ride to the Devil there is ill talk between a full man and a fasting there is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich there is no virtue that poverty does not destroy a thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich to be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those, who possess more when one has a good table, he is always right the weakest goes to the wall wealth and content are not bedfellows wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it wealth makes wit waver when all are poor, it doesn't take much to make a rich man wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces you cannot serve God and MammonEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _багатство і бідність
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2 _закон
always tell your doctor and your lawyer the truth fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health good laws spring from bad morals a good lawyer, a bad neighbor the greater the number of laws, the more thieves there will be ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it laws are silent when wars are waging laws catch flies, but let hornets go free laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed law-makers should not be law-breakers might goes before right necessity knows no law, but it is intimately acquainted with many lawyers not everything legally right is morally right one law for the rich and another for the poor possession is nine points of the law where law ends, tyranny begins -
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[ʌp] 1. adv вказує на1) знаходження вгорі, вище або на рух вгору вгорі́, вго́ру, наго́ру, ви́щеthe plane is up — літа́к (знахо́диться) в пові́трі
we live up on a hill — ми живемо́ на верши́ні па́горба
to fly up — злеті́ти
look up — погля́ньте вго́ру
to get up — 1) встава́ти ( з ліжка) 2) підніма́тися ( зі стільця тощо)
3) збільшення, підвищення вартості, ціни, оцінки тощоprices are going up — ці́ни росту́ть
it was a step up for him — це було́ для ньо́го кро́ком упере́д
age ten up — ві́ком де́сять ро́кі́в і ста́рші
4) знаходження в місті, країні або в більш північному районіup in London — у Ло́ндоні
to live up in Scotland — жи́ти в Шотла́ндії
he came up — він підійшо́в
many new cities have sprung up in our country — у на́шій краї́ні з'яви́лося бага́то нови́х міст
7) закінчення терміну, завершення діїParliament is up — се́сія парла́менту закі́нчилась
her leave is up — її́ відпу́стка скінчи́лася
to pay up — ви́платити
to drink up — ви́пити (все до дна)
to invite smb. up for dinner — запроси́ти кого́сь до обі́ду
what's up? — що тра́пилося?
smth. is up — тут щось негара́зд
9) спорт. попе́редуhe is two points up — він на два очка́ попе́реду свого́ проти́вника
•- up in- up with...!
- up with you!••up against smth. — лице́м до лиця́ з чимсь
up and about — бу́ти на нога́х ( після хвороби)
2. prepup hill and down dale — 1) по го́рах і до́лах 2) перен. в усі́х на́прямках, не розбира́ючи шля́ху́
1) уго́ру, вго́ру по, у на́прямку до; по; у, в; наup the steps — по драби́ні
to climb up a tree — ви́лізти на де́рево
2) (уздо́вж) по; угли́бup the street — (уздо́вж) по ву́лиці
to travel up [the] country — ї́хати вглиб краї́ни
3) про́ти (течії, вітру)to sail up the river — пли́вти́ вго́ру по рі́чці
3. adjup the wind — про́ти ві́тру
1) що йде́ (підніма́ється) вго́ру2) що йде́ до це́нтру (на пі́вніч) (особл. про потяг)an up train — по́тяг (по́їзд), що йде́ у вели́ке мі́сто (в Ло́ндон) тощо
3) шипу́чий ( про напій)4. n1) підйо́м, підне́сення, підви́щення ( цін)ups and downs — мінли́вість до́лі; уда́чі й невда́чі
2) у́спіх3) подоро́жчання4) по́тяг (авто́бус), що йде́ у вели́ке мі́сто (на пі́вніч)5. v розм.1) підніма́ти, підви́щувати ( ціни)2) встава́ти; схо́плюватися
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