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Default Re: Do English know these PROVERBS? Do they use them at all?

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Originally Posted by rewboss View Post
Number 4 is a proverb in German, but not English. I think, Beny, your suspicions are correct, and these are merely Slovak proverbs translated word-for-work. If anyone used any of those on me, I would, as the Germans say, believe myself to be standing in the forest.
Well,number 4 is a proverb in Slovakia too.
Thanx.I just wanted to know if the proverbs are translated word-for-work.Or they are English proverbs that match with the Slovak.
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