英作くん
検索キーワード：
[ことわざ] - [か]
- 賢い者もいるし、そうでもない者もいる。
Some are wise, some are otherwise.
- 菓子は食べたらなくなる。
You can't eat your cake and have it, too.
- 佳人薄命。
The good die young. (He whom the gods love dies young.)
- 数の多いほうが安全。
There is safety in numbers.
- 風が吹けば桶屋が儲かる。
There is no knowing where the effect of an event will appear.
- 稼ぐに追いつく貧乏なし。
Poverty is a stranger to industry.
- かぜには大食、熱には小食。
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
- 風邪は万病の元。
A cold often leads to all kinds of disease. (All diseases originate in a cold.)
- 隔靴掻痒（かっかそうよう）。
Having an itch that one cannot scratch.
- 渇しても（かっしても）盗泉の水は飲まず。
The eagle does not catch flies.
- 勝って兜の緒を締めよ。
Never be proud of your success.
- 勝つときもあれば負けるときもある。
You win some, you lose some.
- 河童に水練。
Don't teach fishes to swim. (You can't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.)
- 河童の川流れ。
The best swimmer sometimes gets drowned.
- 勝てば官軍。
Losers are always in the wrong. (Might is right.)
- 悲しみと喜びはかわるがわる起こるものである。
Sadness and gladness succeed one another.
- 必ず又の機会が来る。
There is always a next time.
- 蟹を縦に歩かせることはできない。
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
- 金がものを言う。
Money talks.
- 金の切れ目が縁の切れ目。
The end of money is the end of love. (When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.)