learning Proverbs (41-60)
Posted by: cyanchin on: August 9, 2009
Hello students,
Summer holiday is coming to the end very soon.
Have you prepared for your future? See you.
| Idioms or proverbs | Chinese equivalents |
| 41. | He who lies down with dogs will rise with fleas. | |
| 42. | Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it. | |
| 43. | A drop in the bucket / ocean. | |
| 44. | Like a duck in the thunder storm. | |
| 45. | The early bird catches the worms. /
First come, first served. |
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| 46. | (It is easy) to go to the crowd. | |
| 47. | To be out at elbows. | |
| 48. | An empty bag cannot stand upright. | |
| 49. | Enough is as good as a feast. | |
| 50. | An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. |
| 51. | He who gives you fair words, feeds you with an empty spoon. | |
| 52. | If a man falls, all will tread on him. | |
| 53. | To meet one’s fate with resignation. | |
| 54. | Like father, like son. /
Eagles do not breed doves. / A wild goose never laid a tame egg. |
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| 55. | To find fault with. | |
| 56. | To feather one’s nest. | |
| 57. | A feather shows the way the wind blows. | |
| 58. | To feel like a fish out of the water. /
Like a fish in the water. |
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| 59. | To fish for compliment. | |
| 60. | To fish in the air or hunt in the sea. |
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