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| Trust makes way for treachery |
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| Nice words for nice words / You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours |
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| You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours |
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| 호랑이는 죽어서 가죽을 남기고 사람은 죽어서 이름을 남긴다 |
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| You have to work hard to leave a legacy |
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| piece of cake, easy as pie (cool porridge) |
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| piece of cake, easy as pie (lying down eating rice cake) |
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| piece of cake, easy as pie (swimming while touching the ground) |
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| to be impossible (grabbing a star from the sky) |
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| making up for something you caused (like giving someone a wheelchair after cutting off their legs) |
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| what you don't know can't hurt you, ignorance is bliss |
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| you can never find what you need (even if it's a common thing) |
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| don't underestimate the little guy, good things come in small packages |
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| a narrow-minded person, knowing nothing of the outside world, big fish in a small pond (and ignorant) |
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| Don't spread yourself too thin. / Go after one thing, not too many |
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| to jump into something without understanding it, to seek hot water under cold ice |
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| to put all your eggs in one basket |
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| right in front of your eyes, hidden in plain sight, you have to go to the county to hear news from the city |
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| can't find something right under one's nose (like losing your glasses on top of your head) |
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| when you're hungry, eating is the most important thing / the belly has no eyes |
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| It's so delicious you wouldn't notice if the person across from you died |
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| A leopard can't change its spots. / You can't teach an old dog new tricks. |
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| Hindsight is 20/20. / After death, the doctor. |
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| Face the music. / Accept the consequences |
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| Bite the bullet. (To clench one's teeth and do it) |
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| The squeaky wheel gets the grease |
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| It happens to the best of us. / Even monkeys fall from trees. |
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| A 'coincidence' that arouses suspicion |
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| Be careful what you wish for (Words become seeds) |
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| Bad news travels quickly / Rumors spread quickly |
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| The walls have ears / Be careful of what you say |
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| A soft answer turns away wrath (a stitch in time saves nine) |
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| Don't lose sleep over nothing / Don't worry over nothing |
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| to worry about everything / to be an alarmist |
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| Those who worry gray quickly |
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| You get what you pay for / Cheap stuff isn't usually good |
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| Fools rush in where angels fear to tread (rash or inexperienced try things when wiser people know better) |
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| An outcast, one who is left out |
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| A guilty conscience needs no accuser / He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it (paranoia) |
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| He that steals a needle will steal an ox |
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| Every cloud has a silver lining / There's a way out of every situation / There's a bright side to everything |
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| 사람에겐 누구나 결점이 있다 / 가시 없는 장미는 없다 |
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| Every bean has its black. / Every rose has its thorns. |
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| Heaven helps those who help themselves / You have to try hard |
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| Where there's a will, there's a way |
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| Out of the frying pan and into the fire / It gets harder as you go |
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| 진퇴양난(이다) / 곤란한 상황에 처해 있다 / 곤경에 처해 있다 |
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| Stuck between a rock and a hard place |
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| The tailor makes the man / Fine clothes make the man |
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| To do what others are doing / To follow others (go to Gangnam) |
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| To do what others are doing / To follow others (carry manure to the market) |
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| Friends are more important than things (especially old friends) |
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| 불난 집에 부채질한다 / 불난 데 기름 붓는다 |
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| Add fuel to the fire / Fan the flames / Rub salt in the wound / Add insult to injury |
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| to look on and do nothing/ to look on a person's trouble without concern / to be a spectator |
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| to take offense easily, to have a short fuse, to get mad at the drop of the hat |
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| 떡 줄 사람은 생각도 않는데 김칫국부터 마신다 |
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| to count one's chickens before they hatch (eat kimchi soup expecting someone to bring rice cake) |
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| Getting started is half the battle |
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| The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step |
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| If treated well, a miscreant will shape up (give more rice cake to those you don't like) |
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| It's best not to meddle in the affairs of others |
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| Ex: Tiger Woods invites you to play golf and you decide to stay on the range and practice as usual |
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| Many drops make a shower / Every little bit counts |
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| Many hands make light work / Two heads are better than one |
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| to be white as a ghost (out of fear or sickness) |
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| To kill two birds with one stone / To get a little extra |
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| To have one's cake and eat it too |
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| You can't have your cake and eat it too |
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| There's no such thing as a free lunch / Nothing is free |
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| What's good for the goose is good for the gander / It's mutually beneficial |
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| If you can't get a horse, ride a cow / Settle for second best |
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| To skin a flea for its hide / Like stealing pennies from the poor |
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| Even the most audacious person has a conscience / Wow, you have no conscience (even a flea has a face) |
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| To switch sides easily / To change sides to benefit yourself |
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| 배보다 배꼽이 더 크다 / 발보다 발가락이 더 크다 / 바늘보다 실이 굵다 |
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| To have one's priorities mixed up / The tail wags the dog |
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| to put the cart before the horse |
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| to laugh so hard one's stomach hurts |
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| To be jealous of your friends, neighbors, or relatives |
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| To only do what suits a person / To only come around when you need somehing |
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| Parents are patterns / Corruption spreads top-down / A servant is only as honest as his master |
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| Hierarchy rules / No matter what, you have to follow the proper order |
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| To do something in vain / To pour water into a bottomless jar |
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| Appearances matter / What looks good tastes good |
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| Appearances can be deceiving / Even a shiny apple can be rotten |
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| 뚝배기보다는 장맛이다 / 뚝배기보다 장맛이 좋다 |
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| You can't judge a book by it's cover |
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| A drop in the bucket / A mere smidgen / Practically nothing |
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| There's a light at the end of the tunnel / No pain, no gain / From pain comes pleasure |
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| to give someone a hard time / to cause pain or anguish |
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| to look for trouble / to invite trouble |
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| 팔은 안으로 굽는다 / 팔을 안으로 굽지 밖으로 굽나 |
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| Take care of your family first, then help others / Charity begins at home |
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| Birds of a feather flock together / Like draws like |
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| 똥 묻은 개가 겨 묻은 개 나무란다. / 똥 묻은 개가 흙 묻은 개 나무란다. |
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| It's like the pot calling the kettle black |
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| Arguing over things that are trivial / Splitting hairs |
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| It's like dwarves bragging about who is tallest |
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| 오르지 못할 나무는 쳐다보지도 마라 / 못 오를 나무는 쳐다보지도 마라 |
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| Don't dream about something beyond your means / Forget about it (she's out of your league) |
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| 네 능력 밖에 일이다. / 네 수준을 벗어나는 거야 |
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| This is out of your league |
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| You can do anything if you try hard / Little strokes fell big oaks |
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| A smile softens your most ardent critics / You can't spit on a smiling face |
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| A soft answer turns away wrath |
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| A knife hidden behind a smile |
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| Where there are smiles, happiness resides |
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| jack-of-all-trades / well-rounded person |
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| 돌다리도 두드려 보고 건너라 / 식은 죽도 불어 가며 먹어라 |
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| Look before you leap / Think before you act (speak) |
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| Better to ask the way than go astray (even if you think you know) |
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| 나중에 후회하는 것보다 미리 조심하는 편이 낫다. |
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| Better to be safe than sorry |
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| An innocent bystander gets hurt / A little guy gets caught in the crossfire |
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| A big guy gets caught in the crossfire of two little guys |
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| To come closer as friends after fighting |
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| 열 길 물 속은 알아도 한 길 사람 속은 모른다 |
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| It's hard to know what other people are really thinking. |
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| No use crying over spilled milk |
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| Desperate people will do anything (to stay alive) / A drowning man will clutch at straw |
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| It's the old cow's notion that it was never a calf / To pretend you were never at the bottom / Forget where you came from |
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| No matter what, you need time to plan / Even a frog needs to coil before leaping |
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| 남의 호의를 트집잡지 마라 / 선물에 트집을 잡으면 안 된다 / 선물의 흠을 찾지 마라 |
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| Don't look a gift horse in the mouth |
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| There's a calm after the storm |
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| to look weak and dejected / to look like a rooster who has been out in the rain |
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| Where there's smoke, there's fire / If it looks like something is wrong, it probably is / If it looks like a duck… |
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| The boughs that bear most hand the lowest / People who are modest are often the best (bow heads) |
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| Barking dogs seldom bite / His bark is louder than his bite / Some people are all talk |
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| To preach to deaf ears. / To fall on deaf ears. |
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| superficial / only skin-deep / not in-depth |
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| to say one thing and mean another |
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| two-faced / to be disingenuous |
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| just because someone looks bad (scary) on the outside doesn't mean they're bad on the inside |
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| to be indifferent / to not say 'yes' or 'no' / to not say whether one likes something or not / have no opinion |
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| To never take the blame / If things go well, it's my doing. If things go wrong, it's someone else's fault. |
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| Every child is dear to his or her parents |
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| a person who is unable to open up to others / a person who can't express their feelings |
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| to suffer in silence / to have secret troubles |
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| Can't understand what a person is saying / To have no idea what a person is saying |
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| Practice makes perfect / A dog sitting outside a country school for three years will come to recite poems |
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| There's a lot of fish in the sea |
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| The weak lash out when the strong do them injustice. |
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| 최후의 결정타. / 더 이상 안 되겠다. / 더 이상은 못 참아요. |
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| That's the last straw. / No more! |
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| It's a stopgap measure that only makes things worse. / Peeing on a frozen foot. |
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| Much ado about nothing. / Making a mountain out of a molehill. |
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| It's like throwing cups of water on a fire. |
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| It's a pie in the sky. / You always want what you can't have. / (Maybe: The grass is always greener…) |
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| Pretending you have more than you really do. / Pretending one is well off. |
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| To make something out of nothing. (To drink cold water and poop out feces) |
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| Add insult to injury. / You fall back and you break your nose. |
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| It wasn't me! (lying when caught red-handed) / Playing innocent |
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| It'll come back to bite you. / Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. |
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| 남에게 잘못한 만큼 자신에게 돌아오는 법이지. |
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| What goes around, comes around. |
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| If you keep trying (moving, working), you won't get rusty. Lit: (No moss grows under a flowing river) |
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| There's no moss on a rolling stone. (Keep moving if you don't want to get rusty.) |
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| I blew a golden opportunity. (like if you break up with a girl in school who ends up being a supermodel) |
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| Failure is the mother of success. |
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| Time cures all. / Time heals all ills. |
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