| A bad workman quarrels with his tools নাচতে না জানলে উঠোন বাঁকা |
| A barking dog seldom bites/ Empty Vessels sound much/ Great talkers are never great doers অসারের তর্জন গর্জন সার/ যত গর্জে তত বর্ষে না/ মুখে বুলি লম্বা, কাজে অষ্টরম্ভা |
| A bird in hand is worth two in the bush হস্তগত অল্পও ভালো, পরহস্তগত অধিক কিছু নয়। |
| A burnt child dreads/ rears the fire/ Once bitten twice shy ঘরপোড়া গরু সিঁদুরে মেঘ দেখে ভয় পায় |
| A cat loves fish but is loath to wet her feet.ধরি মাছ না ছুঁই পানি। |
| A drowning man catches at a straw./ Where there is life, there is hope. যতক্ষণ আঁশ, ততক্ষণ শ্বাস |
| A friend in need is a friend is a friend indeed. অসময়ের বন্ধুই প্রকৃত বন্ধু। |
| All's well that ends well শেষ রক্ষাই রক্ষা/ শেষ ভালো যার সব ভালো তার/ ওস্তাদের মার শেষ রাতে |
| All is fair in love and war প্রেম ও যুদ্ধে সব বৈধ/ হিন্দি: পেয়ার/ ইসক্ অর জং মে সব কুছ যায়েজ হে |
| A little learning is dangerous thing. অল্পবিদ্যা ভয়ঙ্করী। |
| As you sow, So you reap যেমন কর্ম, তেমন ফল/ ঢিল মারলে পাটকেলটি খেতে হয়। |
| A stitch in time saves nine. সময়ের এক ফোঁড়, অসময়ের দশ ফোঁড়। |
| Big/ Great boast, small roast. ফ্যান দিয়ে ভাত খায় , গল্পে মারে দই। |
| Birds of a feather.flock together চোরে চোরে মাসতুতো ভাই। |
| Black will take no other hue কয়লা শত ধুইলেও ময়লা যায় না। |
| Blood is thicker than water রক্তের টান বড় টান।/ আপনার জন সতত আপন। |
| Charity begins at home আগে ঘর, তবে তো পর |
| Cheap goods are dear in the long run সস্তার তিন অবস্থা। |
| Cowards die in many times before their death. ভীরুরা মরার আগেই দুবেলা মরে। |
| Cut your coat according to your cloth আয় বুঝে ব্যয় করো।/ যেমন আয় তেমন ব্যয়। |
| Diamond cuts Diamond মানিকে মানিক চিনে রতনে রতন। |
| Don't Count your chikens before they are hatched/ Easier said than done/ It is easy to say but difficult to do. গাছে কাঁঠাল গোঁফে তেল দিওনা। |
| Example is better than precept. উপদেশ অপেক্ষা দৃষ্টান্ত শ্রেয়। |
| Familiarity breeds contempt. অতি মাখামাখি করলে মান থাকে না।/ গেয়ো যোগী ভিক্ষা পায় না। |
| Faults are thick where love is thim যারে দেখতে নারি, তার চলন বাঁকা। |
| Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. মোঘল পাঠান হদ্দ হল ফারসি পড়ে তাঁতী।/ হাতি ঘোড়া গেল তল, পিঁপড়া বলে কত জল/ বিজ্ঞ যেথা ভয় পায় অজ্ঞ সেথা আগে ধায়। |
| Handsome is as/that/what handsome does. রুপে কালো গুণে আলো চেহারা নয় কর্মই আসল |
| Honesty is the best policy. সততাই সর্বোৎকৃষ্ট পন্থা। |
| Hunger is the best sauch. ক্ষুধা পেলে বাঘে ধান খায় |
| He runs with the here and hunts with the hounds. সাপ হয়ে কাটে,ওঝা হয়ে ঝাড়ে সে বরের ঘরের মাসী কনের ঘরের পিসি |
| News runs apace. দু:সংবাদ বাতাসের আগে ছড়ায় |
| It takes two to make a quarrel. এক হাতে তালি বাজে না। |
| Let bygones be bygones. গতস্য শোচনা নাস্তি অতীতকে মুছে ফেল |
| Loook before you leap. ভাবিয়া করিও কাজ করিয়া ভাবিও না। |
| Make hay will the sunshines. ঝোপ বুঝে কোপ মার কাঁচায় না নোয়ালে বাঁশ, পাক করে ঠাস ঠাস। |
| Strike while the irom is hot. ঝোপ বুঝে কোপ মার কাঁচায় না নোয়ালে বাঁশ, পাক করে ঠাস ঠাস। |
| Misfortune never comes alone. বিপদ কখনো একা আসে না। |
| Money makes man টাকায় মানুষ হয়। |
| Money makes everything. টাকায় কি না হয়। |
| Morning shows the day/ The child is father to the man. উঠন্তি মুলো পত্তনেই চেনা যায়। |
| Nero fiddles while Rome burns./ What is the spot to the cat is death to the rat./ One man's meat is another man's poison. কারো পোষ মাস, কারো সর্বনাশ। |
| Never put off untill tomorrow what you can do today. তুমি আজকে যা করতে পারো তা কখনোই আগামী দিনের জন্য ফেলে রেখো না। |
| None can control a woman's tongue. অবলার মুখই বল। |
| No news is good news. কোনো খবর নাই মানেই ভালো খবর। |
| No Pain, No gain. No pans, No gains.(Modern eng.) কষ্ট না করলে কেষ্ট মেলে না। দু:খ বিনা সুখ লাভ হয় কি মহীতে? |
| No smoke without a fire. কারণ বিনা কার্য হয় না। সব গুজবেরই ভিত্তি আছে। |
| Nothing succeeds like success./ Success leads success. জলেই জল বাঁধে |
| Patience is bitter, It's fruit is sweet./ Patients has its reward. সবুরে মেওয়া ফলে। |
| Penny wise pound foolish. বজ্র আঁটুনি ফস্কা গেরো। অল্পে হুসিয়ার অধিকে বেখেয়াল |
| Prevention is better than cure. প্রতিষেধক অপেক্ষা প্রতিকার উত্তম। প্রতিকারের চেয়ে প্রতিরোধ ভালো |
| Silence is golden/ Silence doth seldom provoke. বোবার শত্রু নাই। |
| Something is better than nothing. নাই মামার চেয়ে কানা মামা ভালো |
| Sweets are the uses of adversity. দু:খের প্রয়োজনীয়তা মধুর বিপর্যয় অভিশাপ নয়, আর্শীবাদ। |
| Time and Tide wait/waits for none. সময় ও স্রোত কারো জন্য অপেক্ষা করেনা। |
| The nearer/nearest the church, the further/furthest from God. |
| The wearer best known where the show pinches. |
| The more they get , the more they want. |
| The grapes are sour. |
| Tit for Tat. |
| There are lees to every win. |
| Safe bind, Safe find. |
| To be forewarned is to be forearmed./ It is better to be safe than safe. |
| To build castle in the air. |
| To carry/ Bring coals to new castle. |
| To count ones chickens before they are hatched. |
| To set a thief, to catch a thief. |
| To be quick to occupy. |
| To make a mountain out of a mole hill. |
| Too many cooks spoil the broth. |
| Too much cunning overreaches itself. |
| Too much courtesy too much craft. |
| United we stand, Divided we fall. |
| Waste not, want not. |
| We live in deeds, not years. |
| A beggar may sing before a pick-pocket./ A beggar has nothing to lose. |
| A fool to others, to himself a sage./ He is a self-styled leader. |
| A bolt from the blue. |
| A rough is deaf to all good. |
| An interested witness is no witness. |
| A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
| A guilty mind is always suspicious. |
| Beggars must not be choosers. |
| Blessings are not valued till they are gone. |
| Better an empty house than a bad tenant. |
| Between scylla and charybdis./Between the devil and the deep sea. |
| Cast pearls before swine. |
| Catch at the shadow and lose the substance. |
| Cleanliness is next to godliness. |
| Cut off one's nose to spite one's face. |
| Danger often comes where danger is feared. |
| Diligence is the mother of good luck. |
| Discretion is the better part of valour. |
| Do or die. |
| Empty vassel sound much./ Barking dogs seldom bite. |
| Every man is for himself. |
| Every dog has its/his day. |
| Every shoe fits not every foot. |
| Failures are but pillars of success. |
| Fifth columninst. |
| Fine words butter no parsnips. |
| Fingers were made before forks. |
| First deserve, then desire. |
| Forgive and forget. |
| Fortune favours the brave. |
| Give a dog a bad name and hang him. |
| Give me roast meat and beat me with the spit. |
| Give him an inch, and he will take an ell/a mile/yard. |
| Give the devil his due. |
| God helps those who help themselves. |
| Good wine needs no bush./Good value for ready money. |
| Great minds/people think alike. |
| Grapes are sour. |
| Great talkers are little doers. |
| Grasp all, lose all. |
| Habit is the second nature. |
| He is a host in himself. |
| Hates makes waste. |
| Hide in a superficial way. |
| Harm hatch, harm catch. |
| He can hardly catch the wolf keep the door. |
| He loves best who loves last./ All's well that ends well. |
| Hope springs eternal in the human breast. |
| He who has nothing to spare must not keep a dog. |
| Ill got ill spent. |
| He who spits against the wind spits against his own face. |
| Indolence is the mother of poverty. |
| It is never too late to mend. |
| It is no use crying over spit milk. |
| Jack of all trades masters of none. |
| Keep the shop, and shop will keep thee. |
| Kill two birds with one stone. |
| Knowledge rules the world. |
| Knowledge is power. |
| Know thyself. |
| Let slepping dogs lie. |
| Live and let live. |
| Like father, like son. |
| Like cures like. |
| Man is the architect of his own fortune. |
| Many a little makes a mickle. |
| Many drops make a shower. |
| Many man, many minds. |
| Might is right. |
| Much cry, little water. |
| Much ado about nothing. |
| Necessity knows no law. |
| No man is born wise. |
| Necessiity hath no low/knows no law. |
| Necessity is the mother of invention. |
| Nothing Venture nothing had. |
| Nothing like force. |
| Oil your own machine/ Mind your own business. |
| O the times, O the manners./The old merry times are no more. |
| One doth the scath, another hath the scorn. |
| One shallow does not make a summer. |
| Out of sight, out of mind. |
| Practice makes a man perfect. |
| Pitch your aims high. |
| Quit not certainity for hope. |
| Rome was not built in a day. |
| Riches have wings. |
| Riches do not last long. |
| To rob peter to pay paul. |
| Rumour is a great traveller./ Rumour spread apace. |
| Self-presevation is the first law of nature. |
| Self help is the best help. |
| Silence gives consent. |
| Slow and steady wins the race. |
| Spare the rod and spoil the child. |
| The pot calls the kettle black. |
| The very ruins of greatness are great. |
| There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. |
| To add fuel to the fire. |
| To add insult to injury./ To pile one agony. |
| To blow hot and cold in the some breath. |
| To break a butterfly upon a wheel. |
| To cast pearls before swine. |
| To cut off one's nose to spite one's face. |
| To err is human. |
| Truth will out. |
| To kill two birds with one stone. |
| To lock the stable door when the steed is stolen./ To be wise after the event. |
| To make a cats paw of a person. |
| To play with fire. |
| The pour water one the drowned./ To slay the slain. |
| To pocket an insult. |
| To the pure all things are pure. |
| Upstart |
| Uneasy lies the hate that wears the crown. |
| Virtue thrives best in adversity. |
| Unity is streangth . |
| Virtue is it's own reward. |
| Wish one's dirty linen in the public. |
| What cannot be cured must be endured. |
| What is lotted can not be blotted. |
| What done can not be undone. |
| We never know the water till the well is dry. |
| what is everything's business is nobody's business. |
| When in Rome do as the Romans do. |
| The the cat is away, the mice will play. |
| What is sauce for the gander is not sauce for the goose. |
| Where there is a will, there is a way. |
| Where there is life, there is hope. |
| When danger is gone, God is forgotten. |
| We shall catch larks when the sky falls. |
| Wishes never fill the bag. |
| Who is to bell the cat. |
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