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1 было бы корыто, а свиньи будут
Set phrase: show a swine a trough and he'll bury his snout, when it comes to taking free food, every pig would, where there's a trough, there'll be swine (used ironically to mean: where there is something to offer, there will be those who would want to have it)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > было бы корыто, а свиньи будут
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2 было бы корыто, а свиньи найдутся
Set phrase: show a swine a trough and he'll bury his snout, when it comes to taking free food, every pig would, where there's a trough, there'll be swine (used ironically to mean: where there is something to offer, there will be those who would want to have it)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > было бы корыто, а свиньи найдутся
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3 было бы корыто, а свиньи будут
было бы корыто, а свиньи будут (найдутся)посл.lit. where there is a trough, there will the pigs be also- Так, видно, этот Кирила Петрович у вас делает что хочет? - И вестимо, барин: заседателя, слышь, он и в грош не ставит, исправник у него на посылках. Господа съезжаются к нему на поклон, и то сказать, было бы корыто, а свиньи-то будут. (А. Пушкин, Дубровский) — 'It seems, then, that this Kirila Petrovich does just what he pleases with you?' 'He certainly does, master: he does not care a rap for the assessor, and the police officer is his errand boy. The gentry kowtow to him, for as the proverb says: Where there is a trough, there will the pigs be also.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > было бы корыто, а свиньи будут
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