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16:53 May 8, 2011 |
Romanian to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / Expresie | |||||||
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4 +2 | Various |
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5 +1 | There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip |
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Various Explanation: There are various idioms that have slightly different idioms. I would recommend one of these: "Don't count your chickens (before they are hatched)" http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Don't count chicken... This idiom could be rephrased as: "Of course, seeing that we can't really count our chickens before they are hatched..." "Best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray" http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/best-laid plans of mice ... This is a well understood, but less common idiom. It could be integrated into your text in a similar way to my suggestion above. "Things never turn out as planned...." http://www.boardofwisdom.com/mailquote.asp?msgid=298728 This is not so much an idiom, as a commonly used expression (or perhaps they are the same thing). However, it is such a common expression. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 hrs (2011-05-08 21:13:56 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In addition to my last suggestion, in English we also use the term "pan out" "—Verb phrase 18. pan out, Informal . to turn out, especially successfully: The couple's reconciliation just didn't pan out." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pan out i.e. "As things don't always PAN OUT as we expect..." |
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1 day 22 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
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