Results, don't listen
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- 泣く子と地頭には勝てない【なくことじとうにはかてない】
expression:
- you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason (e.g. a crying child or a violent lord); you can't fight City Hall - proverb
- 今だから言える【いまだからいえる】
expression:
- I can say now (what I couldn't before); now (that things have changed) I don't mind telling you; I couldn't tell you until now; I couldn't have told you this back then
- 瓜の蔓に茄子はならぬ【うりのつるになすびはならぬ】瓜の蔓に茄子は生らぬ
expression:
- like begets like; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; eggplants don't grow on gourd vines [literal] - proverb
- 一点一画もおろそかにしない【いってんいっかくもおろそかにしない】
expression:
- always dot the i's and cross the t's; don't neglect the slightest detail; be punctilious - proverb
- 棒ほど願って針ほど叶う【ぼうほどねがってはりほどかなう】
expression:
- you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope - proverb
- 朝マラの立たぬ男に金貸すな【あさマラのたたぬおとこにかねかすな】
expression:
- don't lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and might die before he can repay) - archaism - proverb
- せんといて・せんとき・しんといて・しんとき
expression:
- (please) don't - ksb equiv. of しないで(ください) - Kansai dialect ➜ 為る【する】
- そうは問屋が卸さない【そうはとんやがおろさない】そうは問屋がおろさない・然うは問屋が卸さない
expression:
- things don't work that well in the real world; things seldom go as one wishes; that is expecting too much; it won't be that easy - idiom
- 知らぬ仏より馴染みの鬼【しらぬほとけよりなじみのおに】
expression:
- better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the Buddha you don't [literal] - proverb
- 知らぬ神より馴染みの鬼【しらぬかみよりなじみのおに】
expression:
- better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the god you don't [literal] - proverb ➜ 知らぬ仏より馴染みの鬼
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