Nationality: American Proverbs and sayings



Someone else's pocket is always thicker.
№ 465486   Added MegaMozg 01-04-2024 / 09:42
Wash your mouth with soap.
Quote Explanation: Washing the mouth with soap as a punishment is most often used in response to profanity and lies.
№ 465384   Added MegaMozg 01-04-2024 / 04:36
Big money thrown on the table discourages the slightest curiosity.
№ 457813   Added Viker 31-10-2023 / 12:32
Family with cats and dogs.
Quote Explanation: I mean a complete middle-class family with parents, children, pets, this is one-story America. Now it also means “child-free” families, that is, without children, where pets are still replacing children and parents are still tuned in to a career, and not to family life with children.
№ 443689   Added MegaMozg 19-08-2022 / 15:18
If your only tool is a hammer, everything else starts to look like a nail.
Quote Explanation: Based on the book by Philip Mamalakis "The Icon and the Lawn Mower. Principles of Education"
№ 443080   Added MegaMozg 06-08-2022 / 23:45
Heroic heroine on heroin.
Quote Explanation: The game of meanings and names is consonant with our Behind the sandy oblique oblique scythe mowed with an oblique scythe. a phrase consisting of homonyms that introduces any foreigner into the strongest cognitive dissonance.
№ 417023   Added MegaMozg 14-04-2021 / 07:48
Never give them the opportunity [chance] to see you sweat.
№ 416427   Added MegaMozg 05-04-2021 / 14:03
The hat is there, the cattle are useless. [ cattle on the side.]
(I have a hat, but I don't want any cattle.)
№ 414539   Added MegaMozg 05-03-2021 / 14:39
(Money is everything. A lot of money - lies rule.)
Quote Explanation: Our option will not smear - you will not go.
№ 412947   Added MegaMozg 04-02-2021 / 08:00
Cent per cent.
Quote Explanation: Analogue of our saying Penny to penny. Exactly, into the tutelka. Cent Americans most often call penny penny. Also, no one will be surprised if you call this coin 1 cent coin (1 cent coin). Occasionally there may be a "nickname" wheat (wheat), because. spikelets of this particular plant once adorned the reverse side of this coin.
№ 410682   Added MegaMozg 05-01-2021 / 13:36
No money - no honey!
№ 385336   Added MegaMozg 29-12-2019 / 21:04
For the controversial man is not good neighbors.
There are no good neighbors for a scandalous person.
№ 331895   Added MegaMozg 05-07-2018 / 22:11
All poodles are dogs but not all dogs are poodles.
All poodles are dogs but not all dogs are poodles.
№ 331894   Added MegaMozg 05-07-2018 / 22:10
Psychiatry is the only business where the customer is always wrong.
Psychiatry is the only business where the client is always wrong.
№ 331889   Added MegaMozg 05-07-2018 / 22:05