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English equivalent for a Portuguese saying on “bad company”
In Brazilian Portuguese, we have:
"The bird who goes around with a bat wakes up hanging upside down"
Original: "Passarinho que anda com morcego amanhece de cabeça pra baixo"
The literal meaning ...
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“The more chickens in a farm the more crap and the fewer eggs”
Consider:
The more chickens in a farm the more crap and the fewer eggs.
This is a proverb I hear often in Spanish (Cuba). I think it is pretty much self-explained: it is related to productivity ...
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English equivalent of a Kannada proverb
The saying goes like "ಬಡವನ ಸಿಟ್ಟು ದವಡೆಗೆ ಮೂಲ".
When roughly translated to English it means:
A poor man's anger only hurts his jaw [due to all the grinding of teeth in the process].
How to ...
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English equivalent of a Malayalam saying
There is a saying in Malayalam which can be roughly translated as "In the land where noone has a nose, the broken-nosed one is the king". Is there a way to express the same sentiment in English?
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Proverb about the origin of the English language [closed]
Is there a nice proverb that highlights the foreign (e.g. German and French) origins of the English language?
I remember that I've once read something like
English is the bastard child of a ...
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“Nobody does something for nothing”
I have a proverb in my native tongue saying something like "there is no cat chasing fish for God" which implies that anyone who does anything that may seem beneficial to you, is doing it for ...
