Aneks:Przysłowia angielskie - Y

Angielskie przysłowia na: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• years know more than books
• yesterday will not ba called again
• you are what you eat
• you buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones
• you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
• you can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back
• you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time
• you can have too much of a good thing
• you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
• you can only die once
• you can run, but you can't hide
• you can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink (in. you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink)
• you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy
• you can't argue with success
• you can't be all things to all men
• you can't beat a man at his own game
• you can't beat somebody with nobody
• you can't be in two places at the same time (in. one cannot be in two places at once)
• you can't build a church with stumbling blocks
• you can't catch old birds with chaff
• you can't eat your cake and have it too (in. you can't have your cake and eat it)
• you can't fight City Hall
• you can't fly with one wing (in. a bird never flew with one wing)
• you can't get a quart into a pint pot
• you can't get blood from a stone
• you can't go home again
• you can't have it both ways
• you can't have your cake and eat it
• you can't keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair
• you can't lose what you never had
• you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
• you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
• you can't make bricks without straw
• you can't mix business with pleasure (in. never mix business with pleasure)
• you can't please everybody
• you can't put a square peg in a round hole
• you can't put an old head on young shoulders
• you can't put new wine in old bottles
• you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• you can't serve God and mammon
• you can't shift an old tree without it dying
• you can't step twice into the same river
• you can't take it with you when you die
• you can't teach an old dog new tricks
• you can't tell a book by its cover
• you can't unscramble eggs
• you can't win'em all
• you don't get something for nothing
• you get nothing for nothing (in. nothing for nothing)
• you get what you paid for
• you have to eat a bushel of dirt before you die (in. we must eat a peck of dirt before we die)
• you have to learn to crawl before you can walk (in. we must learn to walk before we run)
• you have to take the bad with the good (in. you have to take the bitter with the sweet)
• you have to take the bitter with the sweet
• you have to take the rough with the smooth
• you made your bed, now sleep in it
• you must lose a fly to catch a trout (in. throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel)
• you must take two bears to live with you - bear and forbear (in. bear and forbear)
• you need more than dancing shoes to be a dancer
• you never accumulate if you don't speculate (in. if you don't speculate, you can't accumulate)
• you never get anything for nothing (in. nothing for nothing)
• you never know a man until you live with him
• you never know what you can do until you try
• you never know what you've got till it's gone
• you never miss a slice from a cut loaf
• you never miss the water till the well runs dry
• you pays your money and you makes your choice
• you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
• you should know a man seven years before you stir his fire
• you snooze, you lose
• you win some, you lose some
• you'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't
• you're only young once
• you've made your bed, now lie in it (in. as you make your bed, so you must lie in it)
• young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools
• young men forgive, old men never (in. youth and old age will never agree)
• young men may die, but old men must die
• young saint, old devil
• youth and old age will never agree
• youth must be served
• youth will have its fling

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