Life is just a bowl of cherries
| Life is full of happiness and pleasure | |
Like a bull in a china shop
| A clumsy or tactless person | |
Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
| Once a mistake has been made or an error committed, it's too late to take precautions to prevent it from happening. | |
The longest day must have an end
| All difficult jobs or situations also have an end. | |
Losers weepers, finders keepers
| If someone loses something, he weeps -- but if someone finds it, he keeps it. | |
Love me, love my dog
| If we want a person's friendship we must accept him totally, faults and all. | |
Many hands make light work
| Many people sharing a job or tasks make easier work of it. | |
The mountain labors and brings forth a mouse
| To work hard and long on a project that turns out to be pretty useless. | |
Opportunity only knocks once
| Seize an opportunity when it occurs for it may never happen again. | |
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure | It is even better to be cautious and prevent a misfortune or an accident from happening. | |
Possession is nine points of the law
| In disputes over property ownership, the person in possession of something is sometimes said to have nine-tenths a chance of winning it in a legal argument | |
Promises are like pie crust
| Most promises cannot be kept | |
Put a quart into a pint pot
| Doing something that's impossible | |
The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike
| No matter how good or bad a person, he must still face the everyday problems that confront us all. | |
The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children | People will be punished for the wrongs committed by their parents, forefathers, or those who have preceded them. | |
Someone's bark is worse than his bite
| People sometimes bark but in time we learn they're not always as frightening as they seem. | |
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
| To do something unworthy just because it gives you the pleasure | |
A stitch in time saves nine
| By taking immediate action we can prevent a fault, damage or trouble from getting worse | |
A straw will show which way the wind blows
| A small incident can reveal an important event |
Teach an old dog new tricks
| It is impossible to change someone's ways or habits, especially if he is old and resists change | |
That's where the shoe pinches
| That's the source or cause of a problem or an annoyance | |
There are none so blind as those that will not see
| People ,who never admit they might be wrong, refuse to listen to the opinions or ideas of anyone | |
There are none so deaf as those who will not hear
| People sometimes hear only what they want to hear | |
There's more than one way to skin a cat
| There is more than one way of getting a job done | |
The thin end of the wedge
| That something can appear to be small and of no particular importance - yet it can turn out to be the beginning of a major problem. | |
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
| It means that though something beautiful may not last, the happy memory of it will live forever. | |
Time heals old wounds
| The passing of time helps us to forget things that have caused us pain or made us unhappy. | |
The truth will out
| Truth about something will eventually be discovered or made known | |
Turn up like a bad penny
| Something or someone disliked just won't go away | |
Two wrongs do not make a right | If a person does something to harm or offend us, that's wrong. If we do something to harm them back, that's wrong too. | |
Uneasy is the head that wears the crown
| Notable or important people are often concerned about losing their positions. | |
Waste not, want not
| If we're careful and waste nothing we'll never go without things we need. | |
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
| Most men love to eat so feed your husband well and he will always love you. | |
Wear out one's welcome
| One is no longer welcome, usually because he has become a nuisance | |
When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window | As soon as a happily married couple begin having financial problems and the bills pile up their love will disappear. | |
Who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl
| If we associate with bad companions we, too, will become bad | |
You pays your money and you takes your chances
| A humorous way of saying that we sometimes must trust in luck when buying something. | |
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them
| If you are rich and successful, you will attract many friends, but if you should suffer hardship or have the misfortune (adversity), your friends will quickly depart. |
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