Results, #proverb
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- 女の髪の毛には大象も繋がる【おんなのかみのけにはたいぞうもつながる】女の髪の毛には大象もつながる
expression:
- no man can resist the lure of a woman - proverb
- 女は弱しされど母は強し【おんなはよわしされどはははつよし】女は弱し然れど母は強し
expression:
- though the woman is weak, the mother is strong - proverb
- 女三人寄れば姦し【おんなさんにんよればかしまし】
expression:
- three women make a market - proverb ➜ 女三人寄れば姦しい
- 勝てば官軍負ければ賊軍【かてばかんぐんまければぞくぐん】
expression:
- might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong - proverb
- 将を射んと欲すれば先ず馬を射よ【しょうをいんとほっすればまずうまをいよ】
expression:
- he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin - proverb
- 小の虫を殺して大の虫を生かす【しょうのむしをころしてだいのむしをいかす】
expression:
- to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and save a large one [literal] - proverb
- 小事は大事【しょうじはだいじ】
expression:
- a small leak can sink a great ship - proverb
- 小人閑居して不善をなす【しょうじんかんきょしてふぜんをなす】小人閑居して不善を為す
expression:
- an idle brain is the devil's shop - proverb
- 少年よ、大志を抱け【しょうねんよたいしをいだけ】少年よ大志を抱け
expression:
- boys, be ambitious - quote by William Smith Clark - proverb
- 焼け棒杭に火が付く【やけぼっくいにひがつく】
expression:
- wood half-burned is easily kindled - proverb
- 上には上がある【うえにはうえがある】上には上が有る
expression:
- greatness is comparative; there is always someone better than you - proverb
- 上手の手から水が漏れる【じょうずのてからみずがもれる】
expression:
- even Homer nods - proverb
- 情けが仇【なさけがあだ】
expression:
- Pardon makes offenders - proverb
- 色事は思案の外【いろごとはしあんのほか】
expression:
- love and reason do not go together - proverb
- 触らぬ神に祟りなし【さわらぬかみにたたりなし】触らぬ神にたたりなし・触らぬ神に祟り無し
expression:
- let sleeping dogs lie; if it ain't broke, don't fix it - proverb
- 寝る子は育つ【ねるこはそだつ】
expression:
- sleep brings up a child well; a well-slept child is a well-kept child - proverb
- 寝るほど楽はなかりけり【ねるほどらくはなかりけり】寝るほど楽は無かりけり
expression:
- there is nothing better than sleeping - proverb
- 心焉に在らざれば視れども見えず【こころここにあらざればみれどもみえず】
expression:
- the eye is blind if the mind is absent - proverb
- 深い川は静かに流れる【ふかいかわはしずかにながれる】
expression:
- still waters run deep - proverb
- 親に似ぬ子は鬼子【おやににぬこはおにご】
expression:
- like father, like son - proverb
- 親の因果が子に報う【おやのいんががこにむくう】
expression:
- the sins of the father shall be visited upon the son - proverb
- 親の光は七光り【おやのひかりはななひかり】
expression:
- having a famous parent helps - proverb
- 親はなくても子は育つ【おやはなくてもこはそだつ】親は無くても子は育つ
expression:
- nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb
- 親見たけりゃ子を見ろ【おやみたけりゃこをみろ】
expression:
- like father, like son - proverb
- 身を捨ててこそ浮かぶ瀬もあれ【みをすててこそうかぶせもあれ】身を捨ててこそ浮かぶ瀬も有れ
expression:
- nothing ventured, nothing gained - proverb
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