The popular sayings have a good attendence till our this time ....
Usually it coming out from the oldest age people and dressing in a cover of wise ;)
By these sayings ....
U can explain a subject or a case or advise for the generations.......
In EGYPT :
* The house of idler is destroyed before the house of unjust.
* The hapless who a dog bites him in a festival.
* I and my brother against my cousin & i and my cousin against the stranger.* Who his house from glass , don`t throw people by bricks and stones.
* Kills the victim and walks in his funeral.
So i wanna & hope in my blog every one to write the popular sayings ( popular proverbs ) of his country..
Tell us about your popular saying there !
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* The house of idler is destroyed before the house of unjust.
* The hapless who a dog bites him in a festival.
i didn't hear those ones .. but i like the idea of this blog
Hi Hesham,
Here some popular sayings from Armenia:
Hi,
I think the 3rd one is similar to this saying.
"Blood is thicker than water".
Is it correct?
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Valeria for sharing us ...
The hapless who a dog bites him in a festival. :
it means .. that he is a hapless coz he was chosen by the dog from all people betwween all attendence ..hahaha
Here's an interesting site that I'd like to share with you guys:
http://www.learn-english-today.com/Proverbs/proverbs.html
I like the idea of sharing popular sayings. Let's just be careful because there may be proverbs that are not so easy to translate or even to be understood by people from different nationalities, as they come from the culture.
Anyway, here are popular sayings from Brazil that are similar in the English language:
* Money doesn't grow on trees.
* Bad news travel fast.
* Better late than never.