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21 личиком гладок, а делами гадок
Set phrase: a fair face may hide a foul heart (дословно: За прекрасной внешностью может скрываться низкая душа), fair face may hide a foul heart (дословно: За прекрасной внешностью может скрываться низкая душа.)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > личиком гладок, а делами гадок
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22 сверху ясно, снизу грязно
Set phrase: a fair face may hide a foul heart (дословно: За прекрасной внешностью может скрываться низкая душа), fair face may hide a foul heart (дословно: За прекрасной внешностью может скрываться низкая душа.)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > сверху ясно, снизу грязно
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23 сила солому ломит
Set phrase: even a bundle of straws can be broken by force, might is right (force makes one surrender, what can you do against force?), there is no arguing with a large fist, what may the mouse (do) against the cat? oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm -
24 Замирённый друг ненадёжен
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Замирённый друг ненадёжен
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25 Палки и камни могут поломать мои кости, но обзывания никогда не причиняют мне вреда
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Палки и камни могут поломать мои кости, но обзывания никогда не причиняют мне вреда
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26 Хоть горшком назови, только в печку не ставь
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Хоть горшком назови, только в печку не ставь
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27 Язык мой враг мой
Set phrase: A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat, A man's ruin lies in his tongue, Don't let your tongue say what your head may have to pay for, The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting, The tongue of men is the whip of God, There is no venom like that of the tongue, What a man suffers is the punishment of his tongue -
28 бедность не порок
Set phrase: a ragged coat may cover an honest man (contrast: s she loves the poor well but cannot abide beggars) a poverty is no crime, poverty is ( a pain, but) no disgrace, poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience, poverty is no sin, poverty is no sin (дословно: Бедность не грех), poverty is no vice, poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of is -
29 близок локоть, да не укусишь
Set phrase: between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip, if what you want is out of reach, there's nobody to impeach, sour grapes, the grapes are sour, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip a how near, and yet, so far!, you cannot touch your eye with your elbow (it is( was) so near and yet out of reach), your elbow is near, but you cannot bite it, dear, so near and yet so farУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > близок локоть, да не укусишь
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30 бумага всё терпит
Set phrase: paper won't blush, pens may blot, but they cannot blush (used ironically to mean: one can write down anything (e.g., any nonsense, any lie)), the fairer the paper, the fouler the blot, white paper takes any impression, youth and white paper take any impression -
31 бумага все терпит
Set phrase: paper won't blush, pens may blot, but they cannot blush (used ironically to mean: one can write down anything (e.g., any nonsense, any lie)), the fairer the paper, the fouler the blot, white paper takes any impression, youth and white paper take any impression -
32 буря валит дубы, а тростник стоит как стоял
Set phrase: oaks may fall when reeds stand the stormУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > буря валит дубы, а тростник стоит как стоял
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33 вашими бы устами да мёд пить
Set phrase: astrology is true, but the astrologers cannot find it, friday night's dream on the saturday told, is sure to come true be it never so old, it's too good to be true (used (sometimes: ironically) to express one's gratitude for someone's prediction and/or one's doubt that everything would be fine), may your words come true!Универсальный русско-английский словарь > вашими бы устами да мёд пить
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34 вашими бы устами да мед пить
Set phrase: astrology is true, but the astrologers cannot find it, friday night's dream on the saturday told, is sure to come true be it never so old, it's too good to be true (used (sometimes: ironically) to express one's gratitude for someone's prediction and/or one's doubt that everything would be fine), may your words come true!Универсальный русско-английский словарь > вашими бы устами да мед пить
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35 вашими бы устами мёд пить
Set phrase: astrology is true, but the astrologers cannot find it, friday night's dream on the saturday told, is sure to come true be it never so old, it's too good to be true (used (sometimes: ironically) to express one's gratitude for someone's prediction and/or one's doubt that everything would be fine), may your words come true!Универсальный русско-английский словарь > вашими бы устами мёд пить
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36 век живи, век учись, а дураком помрёшь
Set phrase: he who learns till he dies may realize he isn't yet wise, live a hundred years, learn a hundred years, and die a fool!, live and learn (used when a person is annoyed and/or surprised by one's own or somebody else's mistake, lack of wisdom), the more you know, the more you forget, the more you study, the more you knowУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > век живи, век учись, а дураком помрёшь
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37 видать птицу по полёту
Set phrase: a bird may be known by its song (one can tell a person by his (her) manners, looks and/or deeds), it's easy to know a hawk from a handsaw, one can tell a (the) bird by its flight, one can tell a (the) bird by the way it flies, The ass is known by its earsУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > видать птицу по полёту
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38 видать сову по полёту
Set phrase: a bird may be known by its song (one can tell a person by his (her) manners, looks and/or deeds), it's easy to know a hawk from a handsaw, one can tell a (the) bird by its flight, one can tell a (the) bird by the way it fliesУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > видать сову по полёту
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39 видать сокола по полёту
Set phrase: a bird may be known by its song (one can tell a person by his (her) manners, looks and/or deeds), it's easy to know a hawk from a handsaw, one can tell a (the) bird by its flight, one can tell a (the) bird by the way it fliesУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > видать сокола по полёту
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40 видит око, да зуб неймёт
Set phrase: it catches your eye, but you can't catch it, sour grapes!, the girl looks fine, but she isn't mine, the grapes are sour (someone cannot have (get) the desired thing though it is near at hand or may seem so)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > видит око, да зуб неймёт
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