Пословица "Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown" с переводом

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• Better the devil you know than the devil you don't
• Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven
• Better be alone than in bad company
• Better unborn than untaught
• Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip
• Bind the sack before it be full
• Better an open enemy than a false friend
• Better the foot slip than the tongue
• Bad news has wings
• Better die standing than live kneeling
• Before one can say Jack Robinson
• Be swift to hear, slow to speak
• Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing
• Better lose a jest than a friend
• Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
• Better to do well than to say well
• Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune
• Better early than late
• Brevity is the soul of wit
• Blind men can judge no colours
• By doing nothing we learn to do ill
• Between the upper and nether millstone
• Best defence is offence
• Be slow to promise and quick to perform
• Better deny at once than promise long
• Better a lean peace than a fat victory
• Business before pleasure
• Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
• Beware of a silent dog and still water
• By hook or by crook
• Beggars cannot be choosers
• Better a glorious death than a shameful life
• Better untaught than ill-taught
• Blood is thicker than water
• Betwixt and between
• Better be born lucky than rich
• Between two stools one goes (falls) to the ground
• Beauty is but skin-deep
• Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
• Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
• Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him
• Better be envied than pitied
• By the street of 'by-and-bye' one arrives at the house of 'Never'
• Better late than never
• Barking does seldom bite
• Borrowed garments never fit well
• Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
• Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt
• Birds of a feather flock together
• Beauty lies in lover's eyes
• Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear
• Better one-eyed than stone-blind