| proverb |
you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear (igisheva); if you plant potatoes, you can't reap tomatoes (igisheva); you cannot make a silk purse out of a pig's ear (igisheva); as the tree, so the wood (igisheva); every cask smells of the wine it contains (igisheva); every tub smells of the wine it contains (igisheva); every tub smells of the wine it holds (igisheva); fat hens make rich soup (igisheva); garbage in, garbage out (igisheva); like wood, like arrows (igisheva); no man can make a good coat with bad cloth (igisheva); one cannot make a horn of a pig's tail (igisheva); one only brings to any place what is in himself (igisheva); sour grapes can never make sweet wine (igisheva); such beef, such broth (igisheva); the dogs bark as they are bred (igisheva); there comes nothing out of the sack but what was in it (igisheva); there comes nought out of the sack but what was there (igisheva); there never was a good knife made of bad steel (igisheva) |
