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1 what can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > what can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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2 PIG
• He who scrubs every pig he sees will not long be clean himself - Грязью играть - руки марать (Г)• If a pig had wings, he might fly - Бывает, что и корова летает (Б), На море овин горит, по небу медведь летит (H), Немой караул закричал, безногий на пожар побежал (H)• Lead a pig to Rhine, it remains a pig - Ворона за море летала, а умнее не стала (B)• Let every pig dig for himself - Всяк за себя (B), Спасение утопающего - дело рук самого утопающего (C)• Little pigs have long ears - Что говорит большой, слышит и малый (4)• Pig in the parlo(u)r is still a pig (A) - Посади свинью за стол, она и ноги на стол (11)• Pigs are pigs - Наряди свинью хоть в серьги, а она все в навоз пойдет (H), Посади свинью за стол, она и ноги на стол (П)• Pigs grunt about everything and nothing - На чужой роток не накинешь платок (H)• Pigs might fly /if they had wings/ (, but they are very unlikely birds) - Бывает, что и корова летает (Б), На море овин горит, по небу медведь летит (H), Немой караул закричал, безногий на пожар побежал (H)• Pig that has two owners is sure to die of hunger (A) - У семи нянек дитя без глазу (У)• Pig used to dirt turns up its nose at rice boiled in milk (A) - Кому что, а курице просо (K), У всякого свой вкус, а у осла ослиный (У)• Still pig gets all the slop (The) - Ласковое теля двух маток сосет (Л)• We don't kill a pig every day - Не все коту масленица (H), Праздник бывает не каждый день (П)• What can you expect from a pig but a grunt? - От лихого не услышишь доброго слова (O)• When a pig is proffered, hold up the poke - Дают - бери, а бьют - беги (Д)• When pigs fly - Когда рак свистнет и рыба запоет (K), После дождичка в четверг (П)• Young pig grunts as the old sow (The) - Маленькая собачка лает - большой подражает (M) -
3 От лихого не услышишь доброго слова
A base or rude man will never say a kind word. See В кривом глазу все криво (B)Cf: Evil (111) will never said well (Br.). If you talk with a hog, don't expect anything but a grunt (Am.). What can you expect from a hog but a grunt? (Am., Br.). What can you expect from a pig but a grunt? (Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > От лихого не услышишь доброго слова
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4 no hog ever grunted the ring out of its nose
syn: you can't take the grunt out of a pigще ні одній свині не вдалося вирохкати кільце з носа ≅ прибери свиню хоч в золото, вона все одно в хлів піде a pig in the parlor is still a pigEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > no hog ever grunted the ring out of its nose
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5 brøl
howl, roar, shout* * *(et -) roar;( tyrs) bellow,( kos) moo;[ man kan ikke vente andet af en stud end et brøl] what can you expect from a pig but a grunt.
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