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- Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
- Английские пословицы и поговорки
- East or West, home is best
- God helps those who help themselves
- God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
- Homer sometimes nods
- Jack of all trades and master of none
- Rome was not built in a day
- a bad penny always turns up
- a bird in hand is worth two in the bush
- a cat has nine lives
- a cat in gloves catches no mice
- a chain is no stronger than its weakest link
- a fool and his money are soon parted
- a fox smells his own hole
- a friend in need is a friend indeed
- a little goes a long way
- a man is known by the company he keeps
- a new broom sweeps clean
- a watched pot never boils
- absence makes the heart grow fonder
- actions speak louder than words
- all cats are grey in the dark
- all is fish that comes to his net
- all is grist that comes to the mill
- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- all's fair in love and war
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- an empty vessel makes the greatest sound
- apples do not fall far from their trees
- art is long life is short
- as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
- as you sow, so shall you reap
- bad news has wings
- be careful what you wish for, lest it come true
- beauty is only skin deep
- beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
- beggars can't be choosers
- better by far a widow be than a wife whose man's away at sea
- better late than never
- better one-eyed than stone-blind
- better the devil you know
- better the foot slip than the tongue
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- between two evils it is not worth choosing
- blessing in disguise
- blood is thicker than water
- brevity is the soul of wit
- bull in a china shop
- can the leopard change his spots?
- can't see beyond the end of one's nose
- can't see the forest for the trees
- cast pearls before swine
- cast the first stone
- catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
- change horses in the middle of a stream
- clothes make the man
- come hell or high water
- cross the bridge when one comes to it
- crumbs from a rich man's table
- cut your coat according to your cloth
- diamond cuts diamond
- die is cast
- divide and conquer
- do not change horses in midstream
- do not trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
- do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- don't carry coals to Newcastle
- don't count your chickens before they hatch
- don't cry before you are hurt
- don't kill the goose that lays golden eggs
- don't let grass grow under one's feet
- don't lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed
- easier said than done
- easy come, easy go
- eat one's cake and have it too
- every bullet has its billet
- every cloud has a silver lining
- every dog has his day
- every man has a fool in his sleeve
- every man to his trade
- extremes meet
- eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
- fiddle while Rome burns
- fifth wheel of the coach
- fight fire with fire
- finders keepers, loosers weepers
- first time lucky
- flog a dead horse
- fly in the ointment
- forewarned is forearmed
- fortune favours fools
- from the sublime to the ridiculous
- give someone an inch and they will take a mile
- go through the mill
- good health is above wealth
- grass is always greener
- great barkers are no biters
- great oaks grow from little acorns
- hasty climbers have sudden falls
- he laughs best who laughs last
- he who excuses, accuses himself
- hindsight is always twenty-twenty
- if the mountain won't come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mountain
- ignorance is bliss
- in for a penny, in for a pound
- it is a long lane that has no turning
- it takes one to know one
- it's dogged that does it
- it's not over till the fat lady sings
- life is no bed of roses
- like a fish needs a bicycle
- like cures like
- little and often fills the purse
- live and let live
- loose lips sink ships
- love can't be forced
- make hay while the sun shines
- man's home is his castle
- many a little makes a mickle
- many are called but few are chosen
- many words hurt more than swords
- marriages are made in heavens
- might makes right
- money has no smell
- money talks
- more haste less speed
- mountain has brought forth a mouse
- much cry and little wool
- murder will out
- nature abhors a vacuum
- necessity is the mother of invention
- never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
- no fool like an old fool
- no guts, no glory
- no news is good news
- no pain, no gain
- no sweet without sweat
- not worth powder and shot
- nothing succeeds like success
- old habits die hard
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- out of sight, out of mind
- out of the frying pan and into the fire
- out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
- people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- poverty is no vice
- pride comes before a fall
- put the cart before the horse
- put your money where your mouth is
- rob Peter to pay Paul
- rolling stones gather no moss
- run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- silence gives consent
- six of one and half a dozen of the other
- small rain lays great dust
- sticks and stones can break my bones
- store is no sore
- stretch your legs according to your coverlet
- take each day as it comes
- take it one day at a time
- the best is the enemy of the good
- the devil is not so black as he is painted
- the early bird catches/gets the worm
- the end justifies the means
- the game's not worth the candle
- the goose that lays golden eggs
- the law is an ass
- the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
- the mills of God grind slowly
- the road to hell is paved with good intentions
- the sky is the limit
- the tallest poppy takes the chop
- the world is my oyster
- the сobbler should stick to his last
- there are plenty more fish in the sea
- there is no good deed that goes unpunished
- there is no place like home
- there's safety in numbers
- there's small choice in rotten apples
- third time's the charm
- time flies when you're having fun
- too many cooks spoil the broth
- truth is stranger than fiction
- two wrongs don't make a right
- two's company, three's a crowd
- united we stand, divided we fall
- variety is the spice of life
- velvet paws hide sharp claws
- walls have ears
- what goes around comes around
- what is done cannot be undone
- what is worth doing at all is worth doing well
- when in Rome, do as Romans do
- where there's a will there's a way
- wit once bought is worth twice taught
- you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs
- you don't keep a dog and bark yourself
- you have to be cruel to be kind
- you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours
- zeal without knowledge is a run away horse
- Нope springs eternal
- Русские пословицы и поговорки
- аn elephant never forgets
- любви все возрасты покорны
grass is always greener
Втр, 2005-03-15 00:05 — Vivi
The grass is (always) greener (on the other side of the fence) — Хорошо там, где нас нет
This idiom means that what other people have or do looks preferable to our life.
The complete phrase is The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence'.
см. тж.
[запретный плод сладок]
[those were the days]
the good old days
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