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Definition
Bread bread and wine wine means that each thing must be called by its name.
Example
Definitions
create fame and go to sleep ”is a way of saying that once you create a certain
reputation, that reputation will come before you and it will take time and effort to
change it again.
Example
If you have worked hard to be a good professional and people respect and
value your work, after a while you won't need to try it anymore. When in
Rome, do as the Romans; if you apply that you should be unnoticed
Treating people badly after a while is going to be difficult to change people's choice
because you already built a reputation.
The river sounds, water carries
Definition
Explain that a fact can be deduced from any clue. It is applied in particular to
affirm of any rumor that it has some foundation.
You can get better service if you complain about something. If you wait
patiently, no one's going to help you.
Example:
He flatly denies it, but, as the saying goes, when the river sounds, water
carries
He categorically denies it, but as the saying goes, where there's smoke
there's fire / there's no smoke without fire
Definition
Sometimes there is a great distance between what you say and what you do, so it
is advisable not to trust promises that may not be kept.
Example:
The attention of citizens and secure their vote, but that over time the
proposals offered are different from the reality of the acts.
Whoever has a mouth is wrong
Definition
It teaches that all people are subject to making speech errors and therefore it is
justified that they be excused.
Example:
Whoever has a mouth is wrong "," He who has a mouth is wrong, and if not, his
mouth is silent
He who has a mouth is wrong, and if not, he keeps his mouth shut and also runs
wild. "
He who kills iron, dies iron
Definition
He who kills iron, dies iron”implies that everyone receives the treatment they
deserve according to their actions.
Example
It is particularly used when one person has done harm against another, and then
life puts him in an equivalent situation.
Definition
A good listener a few words”is a popular saying that means that an intelligent
person does not need too detailed an explanation to understand what is being said.
Example:
If the interlocutor wants to make the other person understand that he is talking too
much or that he has already understood and does not need further explanations,
he can simply respond: "to a good listener, few words".
Definition
Example
Good planting always brings good results. For this reason, this popular sentence
also has the idea of reward, which in fact exists in an antonym proverb: "he who
sows well, reaps well."
This proverb is used above all to remind us that if we do wrong in our lives and if
we do wrong to others, when we need them, they will not be there.