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Popular sayings 10-18

By: Sergio David Santibáñez Casanova.


Don´t count your chickens before they
are hatched
It saying is used when a person feels happy for something, without has it even

Ted: Luis, tomorrow my team will win the match


Luis: HaHa Ted, Don´t count your chickens before they are hatched
Better late than never
Is used when to say that is best do someone the things a bit late that don’t do nothing.

Sally: tim, ¿has you homework for tomorrow?


Tim: oh sally! Yes, I have, but I don’t remember it, and now is so late
Sally: regardless Tim, Better late than never
Appearance are deceptive
Warns that don’t have to judge anyone for it external form, without know it

Mom: look lucy, I made cookies for you


Lucy: iugh mom, the cookies looks disgusting, I don’t eat it.
Mom: please Lucy, appearance are deceptive
Better the devils you know than the
devil you don’t know
It is say when person despises something that it knows and has, for finds someone
that don’t knows

Luisa: I go to fire from work to Ted, because he speaks so much


Mary: don’t do it Luisa, Better the devils you know than the devil you don’t know
God tempers de wind to the shorn lamb
It saying is use when a person want cheers to someone that has some problems and
think that will come more

Andres: Louisa, I lost my work and crash the car, today is the worst day of my life
Louisa: tranquil Andres, God tempers de wind to the shorn lamb
Every cloud has a silver lining
Express that an unhappy event usualy is accompanies of other happy
Dany: yesterday my girlfriend finished with me, I´m so sad
Rose: don’t worry Dany, every cloud has a silver lining.
He laughs last, laughs best
It proverb is used when a person claim vengeance for a offence
Thomas: Sam, you are a silly, Luis injure you and you don’t say nothing
Sam: tranquil Thomas, He laughs last, laughs best
To add fuel to fire
It sayin is used when a person worsen a bad situation
Ted: today dad shouts my sister, and she asks he
Lila: oh Ted, your sister is so rude
Ted: please Lila, don’t add fuel to fire
When the cats away, the mice will play
Mary: today my family don’t is in the house, for it, I will do a party
Teacher: oh Mary, When the cats away, the mice will play

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