On se heurte toujours où l’on a mal.One always knocks oneself in the sore place.
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Ote-toi de là que je m’y mette.Get out of that place and let me take it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGrand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait.He has great need of a fool who makes himself one.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCelui qui est adonné aux dez, le diable le tire par le nez.The devil leads him by the nose who the dice too often throws.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui crache contre le ciel, il lui tombe sur la tête.Who spits against heaven, it falls on his head.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesParis n’a pas été fait en un jour.Paris was not built in a day.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOù la haie est plus basse on saute dessus.Where the hedge is lowest men jump over.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui pourrait vivre sans espoir?Who could live without hope?
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGrande chère petit testament.A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA brebis tondue Dieu mesure le vent.God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVache de loin a lait assez.A cow from afar gives plenty of milk.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui s’arrête à chaque pierre, n’arrive jamais.He who stops at every stone never gets to his journey’s end.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl met sa faucille dans la moisson d’autrui.He puts his sickle into another man’s harvest.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn boiteux ne veut aller avec un plus boiteux que lui.A lame man won’t walk with one who is lamer.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSauter de la poële sur la braise.To jump out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFaire d’une pierre deux coups.To make two hits with one stone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUne femme ne cèle que ce qu’elle ne sait pas.A woman conceals only what she does not know.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut que tout le monde vive.Everybody must live.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn seul homme ne peut suffire à tout.No living man all things can.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn achète tout fors le jour et la nuit.Everything may be bought except day and night.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAbsent n’est point sans coulpe ni présent sans excuse.Absent, none without blame; present, none without excuse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est que d’être crotté pour affronter le bourbier.There’s nothing like being bespattered for making a man defy the gutter.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a rien si hardi que la chemise d’un meunier.Nothing so bold as a miller’s shirt (because it takes a thief by the throat every morning).
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJamais bon chien n’aboie à faux.A good dog never barks at fault.
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