Ce qui nuit à l’un duit à l’autre.What is bad for one is good for another.
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Trop achète le miel qui le lèche sur les épines.He pays dear for honey who licks it off thorns.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA vieux comptes nouvelles disputes.Old reckonings breed new disputes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux vaut un tiens que deux tu l’auras.One “take this” is worth more than two “you shall have.”
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAu prêter cousin germain, au rendre fils de putain.At borrowing cousin german, at repaying son of a whore.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTrop tranchant ne coupe pas, trop pointu ne perce pas.Too keen an edge does not cut, too fine a point does not pierce.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAcheter chat en poche.To buy a cat in a poke.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe meilleur vin a sa lie.The best wine has its lees.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOù il n’y a point de mal il ne faut point d’emplâtre.Where there is no sore there needs no plaister.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe bouton devient rose et la rose gratte-cul.The bud becomes a rose and the rose a hip.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCe que l’enfant oit au foyer est bientôt connu jusqu’au moustier.What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA barbe de fol apprend-on à raire.On a fool’s beard the barber learns to shave.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’arbre ne tombe pas du premier coup.The tree does not fall at the first stroke.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe chaudron mâchure la poële.The kettle smuts the frying-pan.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl a mangé son blé en herbe.He has eaten his corn in the blade.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmour fait moult, argent fait tout.Love does much, money everything.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFumée, pluie, et femme sans raison, chassent l’homme de sa maison.Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa poule ne doit pas chanter devant le coq.The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMontre-moi un menteur je te montrerai un larron.Show me a liar and I’ll show you a thief.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTout passe, tout casse, tout lasse.Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn peut payer l’or trop cher.One may buy gold too dear.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJean a étudié pour être bête.John has been to school to learn to be a fool.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesParens sans amis, amis sans pouvoir, pouvoir sans vouloir, vouloir sans effet, effet sans profit, profit sans vertu, ne vaut un fétu.Kindred without friends, friends without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, profit without virtue, is not worth a rush.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAu pays des aveugles les borgnes sont rois.The one-eyed are kings in the land of the blind.
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Read the saying and check its sources