Questions tagged [sayings]
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"Live now, pay later"-what it implies? [closed]
What's the meaning of "live now, pay later"?
I found a sentence on Cambridge dictionary:-
Live now, pay later- that's my philosophy of life.
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What actually killed the curious cat? [closed]
"Curiosity killed the cat". We've all heard the saying before. But what was the cat curious about that got it killed?
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Why don't you do it no more?
Can I say
Why don't you do it no more?
in the same meaning as
Why did you stop doing it?
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When you meet an overseas colleague whom you've been contacting only via email
Let's say this is the first time you meet a certain colleague of the overseas branch in person, but you have been already communicating with them only via email several times for the past two years. ...
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Like likes like
The popular English saying:
Birds of a feather flock together.
Which means: people of the same sort or with the same tastes and interests will be found together.
I also heard the similar saying:
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Every dog has its day
There is a Turkish proverb which says: "even seemingly insignificant things can be of great use some day in the future."
The proverb implies that we shouldn't throw out everything which ...
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Remember something like a snake bite
In my native language, there is this expression - to remember something (an unpleasant, bitter experience of the past) like a snake bite. Are there expressions in English with the similar meaning?
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Standing pools gather filth / dirt
I am wondering whether the German proverb:
Stehend Wasser stinkt.
Literal translation:
Standing waters start to stink.
Makes sense in English.
I also came across an English version:
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