10 common English proverbs you should know

Learn 10 common English proverbs to help you understand native speakers and the American culture.
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In Persian/Farsi, we say count your chickens at the end of Fall! We also say bake while the oven is hot. This one is similar to the saying “strike while the iron is hot.” I love ur lessons. Best teacher ever!

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[marinathea]

Here in Brazil we usually say "Don't count on the eggs inside the hen", "The earlier horse drinks clean water" and "The neighbor's grass is greener than mine." The others proverbs are practically the same! I loved it!

[adelwmalek]

Excellent lessons. Thanks a lot, Lisa.
Similar to the meaning of proverb 8, which is “a leopard doesn’t change its spots, ” the Arabic proverb that says, “the dog’s tail will never be straight.”

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I'm Arabian and we say the same proverbs in Arabic
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[siaavashm]

There is a proverb in Farsi(Persian) which is "0.5 Action is heavier than 200 words"...
"Actions speak louder than words".
I am learning very useful things from you.Thank you.
Alas! I had attended "English Literature" in an American university(AUIS, located in Kurdish
region in Iraq...because I am Kurdish - Persian Iranian)but after very first semester I quit because of some personal problems
Now my biggest dream is going to America and study and work there, among you
kind people of America(in age 42!). I don't know it is possible or not but
in both Farsi and Kurdish, we have a proverb "Hope keeps man alive!"
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[acen]

Thank you for so useful and interesting video!
Curiously, many English proverbs are very similar to Russian ones.
I would like to inform you about russian proverbs that mean the same as yours (with my translation).


1 - Don’t count your chickens until they hatch. - Цыплят по осени считают (Chickens should not be counted before autumn.)
2 - Actions speak louder than words. - Меньше слов, больше дела. (Talk less, work more)
3 - The early bird gets the worm. - Кто рано встает, тому бог подает. (The person who gets up early is helped by god.)
4 - The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. - Хорошо там, где нас нет (There is good where we are not.)
5 - Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. - Не клади все яйца в одну корзину (Just the same word to word)
6 - You can’t judge a book by its cover. - Встречают по одежке, провожают по уму. (How you are greeted depends on how well you are dressed. How you are seen off depends on how you are smart.)
7 - A leopard doesn’t change its spot. - Горбатого могила исправит. (Hunchbacked one can be fixed only by the grave.)
8 - The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. - Яблочко от яблони недалеко падает. (Almost the same word to word)
9 - Strike while the iron is hot. - Куй железо, пока горячо (Just the same word to word)
10- Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. - не кусай руку, которая тебя кормит. (Just the same word to word)


I think some of russian proverbs (like 5th and 10th) were taken from English or other languages with novels that were translated.

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趁(When)热(hot)打(strike) 铁(iron). Exactly the same in Chinese.Language Art brings me a lot of joy. Thank you.

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[a.r.rajeevramakrishnan]

Hard work is necessary to achieve a great victory, some people think it is very easy so we say "by shaking a calendar showing a rainy day one cannot make waterfall"

[olenatsykhonya]

Dear Lisa, I'm from Ukraine. We have many proverbs similar to yours. Proverbs make our speech more figurative and richer.
For example, we say:
Forge iron before it freezes (while it's hot). - Do it now!
The wolf always looking into the woods, even if you feed it. - Someone's character doesn't change.
The bigger piece is always in someone's hands.- Other people's lives seem better than our own.
I enjoy watching your videos! You have such a magical voice! Thank you! I'm beginner in learning English so your lessons really help me.

[fridav]

Thanks for proverbs. Useful to know.
On from Croatia: “Don’t cut the branch you are sitting on!”
Similar with: Don’t bite the hand...

[abeerdarwish]

In Egypt we say: don't sell the fish while it stills in
And about (the Leopard doesn't change it spots ) we say : "the dog's tail never be straight"☺

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