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one's guilty conscience is speaking (Comandor); a thief can't hide his guilty feeling; if the cap fits, wear it ("Don't you speak to me that way!" said Ann. "Do you think I took your book and lost it?" — "Well, if the cap fits, wear it, " answered Kate) |
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fit the cap on (Bobrovska); a hit dog will holler (сокращённый вариант фразы – throw a stone into a crowd of dogs, and the hit dog will holler Баян) |
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he that commits a fault; he that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it; he that has a great nose thinks everyone is speaking of it; if the cap fits, wear it (Miss Charitty Pecksniff receiving no more explanatory answer than was conveyed in the adage "those the cap fits, let them wear it", immediately commenced a somewhat acrimonious and personal retort – мисс Чарити Пекснифф,.. не получив никакого удовлетворительного ответа, кроме того, который содержится в пословице: "на воре шапка горит", немедленно перешла на личности / Ч. Дикксенс "Мартин Чезлвит" Bobrovska); an uneasy conscience betrays itself; he that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it (he who feels (knows) he is to blame, would inevitably betray himself); he that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it; guilty conscience needs no accuser; he has a guilty conscience; guilty conscience gives itself away (Anglophile); the cap fits |
