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Другие английские пословицы на букву T

The furthest way about is the nearest way home
The tongue of idle persons is never idle
To eat the calf in the cow's belly
The moon does not heed the barking of dogs
The best fish smell when they are three days old
There is no place like home
The chain is no stronger than its weakest link
The cobbler should stick to his last
To kill two birds with one stone
The morning sun never lasts a day
To err is human
The leopard cannot change its spots
Too much knowledge makes the head bald
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream
To be head over ears in debt
To cast prudence to the winds
The cask savours of the first fill
To find a mare's nest
To have a finger in the pie
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow
To save one's bacon
To take counsel of one's pillow
Time and tide wait for no man
They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer
The beggar may sing before the thief (before a footpad)
The more the merrier
To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve
To buy a pig in a poke
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
To come out dry
To look for a needle in a haystack
To wash one's dirty linen in public
There is a place for everything, and everything in its place
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love
The wind cannot be caught in a net
To fish in troubled waters
To send (carry) owls to Athens
The game is not worth the candle
There is no smoke without fire
To lay by for a rainy day
To throw dust in somebody's eyes
To give a lark to catch a kite
The fat is in the fire
To weep over an onion
To put off till Doomsday
That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass
There is no rose without a thorn
The last straw breaks the camel's back
That cock won't fight
The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
Time works wonders
The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
To take the bull by the horns
The devil knows many things because he is old
To be in one's birthday suit
The cobbler's wife is the worst shod
To beat about the bush
To come out with clean hands
To come away none the wiser
To throw straws against the wind
The first blow is half the battle
To have rats in the attic
To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
Two heads are better than one
Truth lies at the bottom of a well
The last drop makes the cup run over
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh
The tailor makes the man
To work with the left hand
To set the wolf to keep the sheep
The darkest hour is that before the dawn
To make the cup run over
To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine
The rotten apple injures its neighbours
The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail
The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions
To get out of bed on the wrong side
Things past cannot be recalled
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
To tell tales out of school
To hit the nail on the head
The end justifies the means
To make both ends meet
To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
The darkest place is under the candlestick
To call off the dogs
There's no use crying over spilt milk
To put (set) the cart before the horse
To live from hand to mouth
To come off with flying colours
To cut one's throat with a feather
To draw water in a sieve
That's a horse of another colour
To come off cheap
Two blacks do not make a white
There is no fire without smoke
The voice of one man is the voice of no one
That's where the shoe pinches!
True blue will never stain
To flog a dead horse
The more haste, the less speed
The scalded dog fears cold water
To carry coals to Newcastle
The exception proves the rule
The devil lurks behind the cross
Think today and speak tomorrow
Tomorrow come never
There are more ways to the wood than one
To go for wool and come home shorn
True coral needs no painter's brush
The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last
To stick to somebody like a leech
Too much water drowned the miller
To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts
Time cures all things
To call a spade a spade
To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
To drop a bucket into an empty well
The longest day has an end
To know everything is to know nothing
They are hand and glove
To beat the air
The busiest man finds the most leisure
There are lees to every wine
There is no rule without an exception
To fiddle while Rome is burning
Truth is stranger than fiction
The remedy is worse than the disease
To know on which side one's bread is buttered
To pour water into a sieve
To cast pearls before swine
The work shows the workman
The heart that once truly loves never forgets
The mountain has brought forth a mouse
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip
Too many cooks spoil the broth
To pay one back in one's own coin
Tarred with the same brush
Time is money
To pull the devil by the tail
The Dutch have taken Holland!
To put a spoke in somebody's wheel
The best fish swim near the bottom
The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
Too much of a good thing is good for nothing
There is more than one way to kill a cat
The receiver is as bad as the thief
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
The end crowns the work
Time is the great healer
To cry with one eye and laugh with the other
The devil rebuking sin
To build a fire under oneself
Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Tastes differ
To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good
The devil is not so black as he is painted
To rob one's belly to cover one's back
To be up to the ears in love
To measure another man's foot by one's own last
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
To throw a stone in one's own garden
To angle with a silver hook
To plough the sand
The pot calls the kettle black
To kick against the pricks
Two is company, but three is none
Tell that to the marines
The early bird catches the worm
To be wise behind the hand
To make (to turn) the air blue
To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel
To make a mountain out of a molehill
The cap fits
To fit like a glove
To come off with a whole skin
To teach the dog to bark
To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
To cook a hare before catching him
To draw (pull) in one's horns
The face is the index of the mind
To bring grist to somebody's mill
Take us as you find us
To know what's what
To roll in money
To fight with one's own shadow