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English idioms and Proverbs with their Chinese equivalents

  Idioms or proverbs Chinese equivalents
1.  With one accord.  同心一致
2. Adversity reveals genius.  
3. All within the seas are brothers.  
4. In apple-pie order.  
5. Beating round the bush.  
6. Beauty is a fading flower.  
7. Beauty is a feast itself.  
8. Beauty is in the eyes of the behold.  
9. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. /Better to be the head of a /an (ass, cat, dog, lizard) than the tail of a (lion, horse).  
10. Birds of a feather flock together.  

 

11. Don’t take two bites a cherry.  
12. A black sheep.  
13. To be in blue funk.  
14. A bolt from the blue.  
15. To be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth.  
16. His bread is buttered on both sides.  
17. In the board day light.  
18. Burn not your house to frighten the mice away.  
19. To burn the candle from both ends.  
20. A burnt child dreads fire. /He who has been bitten by a snake is afraid of an eel.  

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