أمثال سورية . و مترجمة بالانكليزية
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اذا كان صاحبك عسل فلا تلحسه كله
If your friend is honey, don't lick him all
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عرج الجمل من شفته
The camel limped from its split lip
A bad workman blames his tools
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الجار قبل الدار
Chose the neighbour before the house
We can live without friends, but not without neighbours
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انا و اخي على ابن عمي، انا و ابن عمي على الغريب
My brother and I against my cousin, My cousin and I against a stranger
Blood is thicker than water
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اللي فات مات
What is past is dead
Let bygones be bygones
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يا رايح كثر ملايح
O departing one, leave behind good deeds!
A good deed is never lost
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حبل الكذب قصير
The rope of a lie is short
The liar is sooner caught from the cripple
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العجلة من الشيطان و التأني من الرحمن
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Haste is the devil's work and patience is from God the Merciful
Patience is a virtue
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فرخ البط عوام
The son of a duck is a floater
Like father, like son
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علمناهم الشحادة، سبقونا على الأبواب
We taught them how to beg, they raced us to the gates
to beat someone at his own game
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شحاد و مشارط
A beggar and he bargains!
Beggars cannot be choosers
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القرد في عين امه غزال
In the eye of his mother, a monkey is a gazelle
All her geese are swans
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الفرح ليس مهنتي ؟