Englich for Talking. Учебно-методическое пособие

Every herring must hang by its own gill. Every Jack has (must have) his Jill. Every man to his (own) taste.

Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan. Everyone to his taste.

Everything is good in its season.

Fine (fair, soft) words butter no parsnips. Fingers were made before forks.

First catch your hare, then cook him. First come, first served.

Gluttony kills more men than the sword.

He is a poor (an ill) cook that cannot lick his own finger. He that has no children knows not what love is.

He that is long a-giving knows not how to give. He that is warm thinks all so.

Honey catches more flies than vinegar. Honey is not for the ass's mouth. Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. Hunger breaks stone walls.

Hunger finds no fault with cookery. Hunger is the best relish (sauce). Hungry bellies have no ears.

Idleness is the mother (root) of all evil (sin, vice).

If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city. If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

I rather would a husband wed with a beetle brow than a beetle head. It is a small flock that has not a black sheep.

Just out of swaddling clothes.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge. Know the breed, know the dog.

Like begets like. Like draws to like. Like father, like son.

Like two peas in a pod. Like mother, like daughter. Like parents, like children.

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Man is borne unto trouble.

Many a good cow hath an evil (bad) calf. Many a good father has but a bad son. Many physicians have killed the king. Marriages are made in heaven. Marriage is a lottery.

Marry in haste and repent at leisure. May and December.

Men make houses, women make homes. Men may meet but mountains never greet.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Mere words will not fill a bushel.

Mute as a fish.

My house is my castle.

Neither fish, flesh nor fowl./Neither fish, nor flesh. Neither fish nor good red herring.

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry stomach.

Not worth a continental (a button, a curse, a darn, a groat, an old song, a snap, a jigger, a lack).

Old age comes on apace.

Once cannot blow and swallow at the same time. One man's breath is another's death.

One man meat is another man’s poison. One man sow and another reaps. Opinions differ.

Packed like herrings.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Pity is akin to love.

Plenty is no plague.

Praise without profit puts little in the pot. Praise is not pudding.

Shot-gun marriage. Slow help is no help.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Still in (hardly out of, just out of) swaddling clothes. Tastes differ.

The appetite comes with eating.

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The belly has no ears.

The belly is not filled with fair words.

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. The pot calls (called) the kettle black.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. There is a black sheep in every flock. There is no accounting for tastes.

There is no disputing about tastes.

There is no ill in life that is no worse without bread. There is no (there's) no place like home.

There is small choice in rotten apples. There's no use crying over spilt milk.

There was never a good town but had a mire at one end of it. The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

The same knife cuts bread and fingers.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth. To drink like a fish.

To each his own.

To eat one's cake and have it./To have one's cake and eat it, too. To eat the calf in the cow's belly.

To know on which side one's bread is buttered. To leap (to fall) out of the pan into the fire. To learn something at one's mother's knees. To live from hand to mouth.

To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water. What's good for one is bad for another.

When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. When three know it, all know it.

When wine is in, wit (truth) is out. While the grass grows the horse starves.

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КОКОЛИНА Людмила Викторовна МАЛЮКИНА Галина Александровна ОСТРИНСКАЯ Элеонора Самуиловна ЩАВЕЛЕВА Екатерина Николаевна

ENGLICHS FOR TALKING

Учебно-методическое пособие

Редактор Г.Б. Преображенская

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