Aneks:Przysłowia angielskie - B
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- bad money drives out good
- bad news always comes too soon (in. he comes too early who brings bad news)
- bad news travels fast
- barking dogs seldom bite
- be careful what you wish for: you might get it (in. don't wish too hard; you might just get what you wished for)
- be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead
- be just before you're generous
- be kind to your friends; if it weren't for them, you would be a total stranger
- be longing (in. an idle youth, a needy age)
- be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down
- be not idle and you shall not be longing (in. an idle youth, a needy age)
- be the day weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to evensong
- be what you would seem to be
- bear and forbear
- beauty and honesty seldom agree
- beauty draws with a single hair
- beauty is a good letter of introduction
- beauty is but a blossom
- beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- beauty is no inheritance
- beauty is only skin deep
- beauty is truth, truth beauty
- because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse (in. the man who is born in a stable is not a horse)
- beggars can't be choosers
- behind every great man is a great woman
- believe only half of what you see and nothing you hear
- believing has a core of unbelieving
- better a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
- better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox where hate is
- better a good cow than a cow of a good kind
- better a little fire to warm us than a big one to burn us
- better a small fish than an empty dish
- better be alone than in bad company
- better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave
- better be dead than out of fashion (in. better be out of the world than out of the fashion)
- better be envied than pitied
- better be first in a village than second at Rome
- better be out of the world than out of the fashion
- better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
- better death than dishonour
- better late than never
- better lose the saddle than the horse
- better luck next time
- better one house spoiled than two
- better safe than sorry
- better something than nothing (in. something is better than nothing)
- better the devil you know than the devil that you don't know
- better three hours too soon than a minute too late (in it's better to be an hour too early than a minute too late)
- better to wear out than to rust out
- better untaught than ill taught
- between two stools one falls to the ground
- beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm
- beware of Greeks bearing gifts
- big fish eat little fish
- big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
- big is beautiful
- birds in their little nests agree
- birds of a feather flock together
- birth is much but breeding more
- bitter pills may have blessed effects
- blessed are the dead that the rain rains on
- blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed
- blessed is the bride that the sun shines on (in. happy is the bride that the sun shines on)
- blessings brighten as they take their flight
- blind chance sweeps the world along
- blood is thicker than water
- blood will have blood
- blood will out
- blood will tell
- blue are the hills that are far away
- blushing is a sign of grace
- books and friends should be few and good
- borrowing brings sorrowing (in. he that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing
- both poverty and prosperity come from spending money - prosperity from spending it wisely
- boys seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses
- boys will be boys
- brain is better than brawn
- brave men lived before Agamemnon
- bread always falls buttered side down
- bread is the staff of life
- brevity is the soul of wit
- burn not your house to scare away the mice
- business before pleasure
- business is business
- business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
- business neglected is business lost
- busy folks are always meddling
- buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest
- butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night
- by learning to obey, you will know how to command
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