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1 Запретный плод сладок
We enjoy doing or desire to obtain what is not allowed or disapproved of See На запретный товар весь базар (H)Cf: Everything forbidden is sweet (Am.). Forbidden fruit is sweet (sweetest) (Br.). Forbidden fruit is the sweetest (Am.). Stolen apples (kisses, pleasures, waters) are sweetest (Br.). Stolen cherries are the sweetest (Am.). Stolen fruit is always sweeter (Am.). Stolen fruit is sweet (Br.). Stolen kisses are sweet (the best) (Am.). Stolen sweets are /always/ sweeter (Br.). Stolen waters are sweet (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Запретный плод сладок
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2 STEAL
• He that steals an egg will steal a chicken (an ox) - Кто может украсть теленка, украдет и корову (K)• He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox (a pound) - Кто может украсть теленка, украдет и корову (K)• He that will steal an ounce will steal a pound - Кто может украсть теленка, украдет и корову (K)• He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing - Кто может украсть теленка, украдет и корову (K)• He who steals will always fail - Сколько веревочке ни виться, а конец будет (C), Худо нажитое впрок не идет (X)• Nothing is stolen without hands - Где кража, там и вор (Г)• Stolen apples are sweetest - Запретный плод сладок (3)• Stolen cherries are the sweeter - Запретный плод сладок (3)• Stolen fruit is always sweeter (is sweet) - Запретный плод сладок (3), На запретный товар весь базар (H)• Stolen kisses are sweet (sweetest, the best) - Запретный плод сладок (3)• Stolen pleasures are sweetest - Запретный плод сладок (3)• Stolen sweets are /always/ sweeter - Запретный плод сладок (3)• Stolen waters are sweet - Запретный плод сладок (3) -
3 запретный плод сладок
1) General subject: hanker after forbidden fruit, stolen waters are sweet2) Set phrase: forbidden fruit is sweetУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > запретный плод сладок
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4 украденные воды сладки
General subject: stolen waters are sweetУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > украденные воды сладки
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stolen waters are sweet — With allusion to PROVERBS ix. 17 (AV) Stolen waters are sweet. Cf. c 1395 WYCLIF Bible Proverbs ix. 17 Stoln watris ben swettere. Less frequent than the preceding entry (stolen fruit is sweet). c 1548 Will of Devil (1863) 9 This saiyng of the… … Proverbs new dictionary
stolen waters are sweet — things obtained against the rules always seem nicer … English contemporary dictionary
stolen fruit is sweet — The proverb is used in a variety of forms, principally in allusion to the temptation of Eve (Genesis iii. 6): e.g. c 1390 CHAUCER Parson’s Tale 1. 332 The fleesh hadde delit in the beautee of the fruyt defended [forbidden]. See also the next… … Proverbs new dictionary
sweet — see with a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair little fish are sweet revenge is sweet stolen fruit is sweet stolen waters are sweet the nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat … Proverbs new dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary
The Stolen Child — is a poem by William Butler Yeats, published in 1889 in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems .The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats more notable early poems. The poem is based on Irish legend and concerns faeries… … Wikipedia
steal — see one man may steal a horse, while another may not look over a hedge hang a thief when he’s young, and he’ll no’ steal when he’s old it’s a sin to steal a pin stolen fruit is sweet stolen waters are sweet … Proverbs new dictionary
water — see don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim blood is thicker than water dirty water will quench fire you can take a horse to the water, but you can’t make him drink no matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn’t become a… … Proverbs new dictionary
Proverbs 9 — 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 … The King James version of the Bible
Obst — 1. Das beste Obst fällt mit der Zeit ab. 2. Es ist nicht das schlechteste Obst, an dem die Wespen nagen. – Eiselein, 498. Lat.: Bos lassus fortius figit pedem. (Erasm., 954; Tappius, 185b.) Schwed.: Gammal oxe trampar tungt. (Grubb, 459.) 3. Es… … Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon
List of Marvel Family enemies — Through his adventures, Fawcett Comics/DC Comics superhero Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family gained a host of enemies, including the following: Contents 1 Acrobat 2 Adolf Hitler 3 Amoeba Family … Wikipedia