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1 MARE
• Either win the mare or lose the halter - Или все, или ничего (И)• Grey mare is the better horse (The) - Жена - в доме глава (Ж), Муж - голова, жена - шея, куда захочет, туда и повернет (M)• Old gray mare ain't what she used to be (The) - Был конь, да изъездился (Б), Укатали Сивку крутые горки (У) -
2 Жена - в доме глава
The wife plays the decisive role in solving all the family problems. See Муж - голова, жена - шея, куда захочет, туда и повернет (M)Cf: The grey mare is the better horse (Br.). The husband is the head of the house, but the wife is the neck - and the neck moves the head (Am.). Man is the head, but the woman turns it (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Жена - в доме глава
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3 жена - в доме глава
General subject: the gray mare is the better horse, the grey mare is the better horseУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > жена - в доме глава
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4 Муж - голова, жена - шея, куда захочет, туда и повернет
It is the wife who virtually makes all the decisions though the husband seems to play the main role. See Жена - в доме глава (Ж)Cf: The grey mare is the better horse (Br.). The husband is the head of the house, but the wife is the neck - and the neck moves the head (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Муж - голова, жена - шея, куда захочет, туда и повернет
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5 (она) держит мужа под башмаком
General subject: the grey mare is the better horseУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > (она) держит мужа под башмаком
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6 держит мужа под башмаком
General subject: (она) the grey mare is the better horseУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > держит мужа под башмаком
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the grey mare is the better horse — The wife rules, or is more competent than, the husband. Cf. 1529 MORE Dialogue of Images III. v. Here were we fallen in a grete questyon of the law, whyther the gray mare be the better horse..or whither he haue a wyse face or not that loketh as… … Proverbs new dictionary
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grey — see the grey mare is the better horse all cats are grey in the dark … Proverbs new dictionary
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