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Parašė Admin· 1970.01.01

• All in its proper time

• It’s better to be safe than sorry

• Adventure is the champagne of life

• Travel broadens the mind

• It’s just stones throw away

• To get away from it all

• To make up for lost time (atsigriebti uz prarasta laika)

• I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you

• Better late than never

• One men’s meat is another man’s poison

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (kiekvienas savaip supranta grozi)

• In one ear and out the other

• There is no place like home

• Strike while the iron is hot

• People who llive in glass houses should never throw stones

• Prevention is better than cure

• Rome wasn’t build in one day

• So many countries, so many customs

• Speech is silver but silence is gold

• Still water runs deep

• A crust is better than no bread

• Friendship, the older it grow, the stronger it is

• Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

• If the mountain doesn’t come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain

• Men do more things though habit than though reason

• Honesty is the best policy

• Hungry as a hunter

• If you run aafter two horses, you will catch neither

• Ill news travels fast

• It never rains but it pours (beda viena nevaiksto)

• Look before you leap

• Last but not least

• Make hay while the sun shines (darbus atlik laiku)

• More haste, less speed

• Never put off till tomorrow what yyou can do today

• No news is good news

• Out of sight out of mind

• Envy never enriched any man

• It is easy to be wide after the event

• Pride goes before, and shame follows after

• Words have wings and can not be recalled

• There is no great loss without some gain

• A good heart conquers ill fortune

• A stitch in time saves nine

• A tree is knows by its fruits

• All that glitters isn’t gold

• Birds of a father flock together

• Cast not your pearls before swine

• Catch the bear before you sell his skin

• If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well

• Handsome is as handsome does

• He laughs best who laughs last

• He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth

• As you make your bed, so must lie on it

• Pardoning the bad iis injuring the good

• The old believe everything, the middle – aged suspect everything, the young know everything. (Oscar Wilde)

• Every bird likes its nest

• Home is where the heart is

• Sweep before your own door

• Charity begins at home

• East or west – home is best

• My house is my castle

• Every man is a master of his house

• No gold can by a good friend

• Spare the rod and spoil the child

• Slow but wins the race

• Take things as they come and be content

• When things are at the wworst, they begin to mend

• Love all, trust a few

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

• Money will say more in one moment that the most eloquent lover can in year (Henri Fielding)

• A burnt child dreads the fire

• A drawing man will catch at a straw (skestantis siaudo griebiasi)

• A friend in need is a friend in deed

• Women have become so highly educated that nothing should surprise them except happy marriages (Oscar Wilde)

• A good beginning makes a good ending

• A little leak will sink great ship

• What can’t be cured must be endured

• What’s done can’t be undone

• Two heads are better than one

• Too many cooks spoil the broth

• Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he is well dressed. There isn’t much credit in that (Charles Dickens)

• There’s no use crying over the spilt milk.

• There is no smoke without the fire

• The last straw breaks the comet’s back

• The devil is not so black as he is painted

• Fortune favors the brave

• So many men so many minds

• The leopard doesn’t change his spot

• Live and learn

• While there is life there is hope

• Business before pleasure

• Everything is good in its season

• It’s just a storm in a teacup (daug triuksmo del nieko)

• Money is the root of all evil

• Money mmakes the world go round

• Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves

• Money doesn’t grow on trees

• Easier said than done

• The other side of the coin

• Go round in circles (nesusitarti)

• Make an exhibition of oneself (kazka padaryti, kad apsijuoktum)

• New blood (naujos idejos)

• A child’s play / a piece of cake (labai lengva)

• Actions speak louder than words

• There is no point crying over spilt milk

• Blood is thicker than water (seimos santykiai stipriausi)

• It’s only the matter of time

• The chance of a lifetime

• It is all in a lifetime

• As fit as a fiddle (jaustis labai gerai)

• To feel under the weather ( juastis blogai)

• To recharge the batteries (atgauti jegas)

• To sugar the pill

• A bitter pill to swallow ( su viskuo reikia susitaikyti)

• To be frightened to death

• Catch someone red handed (pagauti uz rankos)

• Have green fingers (gerai dirbti su augalais)

• Be yellow (buti bailiu)

• A white lie

• To look on the black side

• As brown as a berry (graziai ideges)

• Golden opinion

• Feel of color (jaustis liguistai)

• It rains cats and dogs (pila kaip is kibiro)

• A bright personality

• A wolf in sheep’s clothing

• There’s no arguing about tastes

• Beauty is only skin deep

• You can’t go by appearance

• As cool as cucumber

• As changeable as the weather

• As cunning as a fox (klastingas)

• As sour as vinegar (suruges, be nuotaikos)

• To have a sharp tongue

• A wwet blanket (atsiskyrelis)

• Take everything for granted (jaustis saugiam)

• A spoilt child

• To benefit from grandparents wisdom

• To see eye to eye with sm. (tureti tokia pat nuomone)

• To get (have) your own way (daryti ka uzsimanai)

• To be the black sheep of the family (padaryti seimai geda)

• To look back on smb’s childhood

• To rack one’s brain about smth. (itemptai galvoti)

• To pick someone’s brain (pasisemti isminties is kito)

• To have smth on the brain (neiseina is galvos)

• To have a brain move (sauti i galva)

• It’s on the tip of my tongue

• My head is like a sieve (mano galva tuscia)

• My mind is gone blank (tuscia galvoje)

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