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31 Wendungen dieses Bestands haben eine Fassung auf Englisch.
Two cats and a mouse, two wifes in one house, two dogs and a bone never agree in one.
There's no general rule without some exception.
Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel
Beleg: Bohn II, 129; Gaal, 1301The child is the father of the man. Dies Wort hat Lewes zum Motto von Goethe's Leben (Bd. 1) gewählt, das aus Wordsworth: My heart leaps up, entlehnt ist.
Beleg: Vgl. Büchmann, X, 147To hit the nail on the head.
den Nagel auf den Kopf treffen
Beleg: Marin, 24You see the splinter in your brother's eye, but not the beam in your own.
den Splitter im fremden Auge, aber nicht den Balken im eigenen sehen
The sleep of the righteous.
Let the church stand in the church-yard.
Beleg: Bohn II, 79An honest man's word, is as good as his bond.
Beleg: Gaal, 1751; Marin, 11Once is no custom.
I bear him on my back.
es faustdick hinter den Ohren haben
Beleg: Bohn II, 149To call a spade a spade.
- No striving against the stream.
- Piss not against the wind.
To set a good face on a thing.
gute Miene zum bösen Spiel machen
Beleg: Bohn II, 158To fish in troubled waters.
La vie n'est qu'un passage, as the beadle said who passed his life in Burlington Arcade.
jemandem ist eine Laus über die Leber gelaufen
Beleg: Hagen, 104, 27To build castles in the air.
Beleg: Bohn II, 151- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
- To stumble at a straw and leap over a block.
Mücken seihen und Kamele verschlucken
Beleg: Bohn II, 179- Pearls are ill valued by hungry swine.
- You must not throw pearls before swine.
Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
vom Regen in die Traufe kommen
Beleg: Masson, 289You may be a wise man, though you cannot make a watch.
allen Menschen recht getan, ist eine Kunst, die niemand kann
Beleg: Bohn II, 23The appetite is concealed under the teeth.
Beleg: Proverbs, 52- Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
- The teeth of a horse of which a present has been made are not observed.
einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul
Beleg: Gaal, 588Every man is the founder of his own fortune.
jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied
Beleg: Gaal, 741Opportunity makes a thief.
Beleg: Eiselein, 222; Gaal, 663- An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
- The morning sun never lasts a day.
Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde
Beleg: Bohn II 14By little and little thea sea is drained.
steter Tropfen höhlt den Stein
Beleg: Masson, 116- Let the cobbler stick to his last.
- Who goes worse shod than the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare?
Praise a fair day at night.
Talk of the devil his imps appear.
wenn man vom Teufel spricht, kommt er
Beleg: Gaal, 1737Harm watch, harm catch.
wer anderen eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein
Beleg: Gaal, 808Time is money.