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1 you cannot touch pitch and not be defiled
Пословица: нельзя не испачкаться, дотронувшись до смолыУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > you cannot touch pitch and not be defiled
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2 he that touches pitch shall be defiled
посл.(he that touches pitch shall be defiled (тж. he who touches pitch will be defiled или you can't touch pitch without being defiled))≈ грязью играть - руки марать; с кем поведёшься, от того и наберёшься [этим. библ. Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus XIII, 1]; см. тж. touch pitch‘I have endorsed Callahan,’ the Judge said. He didn't flicker. ‘I maybe could give you the dirt,’ the Boss said speculatively. ‘Callahan's been playing round for a long time, and he who touches pitch shall be defiled...’ (R. P. Warren,‘All the King's Men’, ch. I) — - Я поддержал кандидатуру Калахана, - сказал судья Ирвин. Он не дрогнул. - Я мог бы произвести для вас раскопки, - задумчиво сказал Хозяин. - Калахан давно в обращении, а где это видано, чтоб грязью играть, да рук не замарать...
His motto had always been: you cannot touch pitch and not be defiled. His hands were clean. (A. J. Cronin, ‘Beyond This Place’, part II, ch. VIII) — Девизом Дейла всегда было: с кем поведешься, от того и наберешься. Вот он и имел дело с честными людьми.
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