Proverbs
No chimney discharges smoke without fire; Where there is smoke, there is fire; There is no smoke without fire
An expression meaning there is no effect without a cause.
No chimney discharges smoke without fire; Where there is smoke, there is fire; There is no smoke without fire
An expression meaning there is no rumor without some grounds.
(as if holding out) a wooden roller in the middle of the night; a great surprise; a bolt out of the blue
An expression used to refer to a nonsensical word or behavior that is suddenly said or done.
There is no child comparable to his/her father
No child can love his/her parents as much as the parents love him/her.
There is no child comparable to his/her father
No child can ever do something as well as his/her parents.
You cannot even drink cold water when children are looking at you
An expression used to advise someone to refrain from speaking or behaving in a careless or thoughtless manner in front of children.
You cannot even drink cold water when children are looking at you
(sarcastic) An expression meaning one indiscriminately follows what others do.
A fight between children turns into a fight between adults
An expression used to describe a situation where something minor becomes severe and larger.
You are advised to raise your small baby to become a big one
An expression used to advise someone to give birth to a baby regardless of the weight of the fetus and raise it to become a healthy and good child.
A guy who has nine is envious of a guy who has one
To be greedy or have greed for what others have.
An unlucky person breaks his/her nose even when he/she falls on his/her back[backward]; The bread never falls but on its buttered side
An unlucky person often suffers misfortune that ordinary people rarely go through.
blaming [the graves of] one's ancestors when things are not going well
An expression used to refer to the attitude of a person who blames others when things go wrong.
Even grass will not grow on the place one has been seated
For one's character to be very unfriendly and cold-hearted.
You should check the place that you will sit on before taking a seat
An expression used to advise someone to make a reasonable judgment and behave in a quick-witted manner in everything.
distinguish[know] where to sit and where to stand
To make a reasonable judgment on what one should do in a quick-witted manner.
I would rather die than suffer
It is better to gain satisfactory results by doing something for oneself even if it takes much more effort than having others do it and making less effort only to have poor results.
feel like an aching tooth having fallen out; feel sudden relief
To be relieved as a problem or concern disappears.
If a hen crows, the family will fail; It goes ill with the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent; It is a sad house where the hen crows lower than the cock
If a woman instead of a man takes care of and intervenes in family affairs, nothing will go right.
One's future is like thirty six thousand kilometers
To have a lot of days to achieve any great success because one is still young.
licorice in a drugstore; indispensabe person or thing
A person who joins every event, or something that is indispensable.