You can't teach

[Tdol]

You can find the answer here.

 

[Suzuki]

Thanks! Good idiom, I'm hungry for more!

 

[Rocky]

:lol: I love this one.

It is difficult to make someone change the way they do something when they have been doing it the same way for a long time

 

[GingerJoe]

A similar expression to this is: "a leopard never changes its spots".
Notice that both of these sayings feature two different animals?
When we talk about a person who finds it difficult to change their way of doing something, we often refer to them as 'a creature of habit'.

 

[Littlebigman]

Re: You can't teach myself a new proverb?

Hi
I've just found this website which looks very interesting for my needs of improving my English.

I know a proverb in French like this one but with a monkey and faces... Then I felt in the horses's trap.

I recently realised with an ipad and a translator that I have difficulties to formulate corrects sentenses (by the place of a verb, articl, subject... Must normally be).

We can't teach a monkey faces... By looking on dog's proverb above, it makes me thinking about the circus, which if I am not wrong a very old way to do it in Europe.

Greetings from France and Belgium.

 

[m3zomo]

Re: You can't teach myself a new proverb?

Ohh dog ! :-D