Proverbio o espressione - 2006

To run as fast as one’s legs can carry one, to run the race of one’s life, to run one’s guts out = correre a perdifiato / a più non posso / a gambe levate / come un matto

To leave a sour / a bad / a nasty taste in the month = Lasciare l’amaro in bocca, lasciare la bocca cattiva

- A bad / bitter taste in the mouth = un sapore amaro in bocca

Never look a gift horse in the mouth = a caval donato non si guarda in bocca

To fight like cat and dog = litigare come cane e gatto

How happy I am to see you! / What a joy it is to see you! = che felicitá vederti

felicitá happiness (to find happiness) Ex. He wished the bride and groom every happiness Ex. Happiness is more important than money joy - to be full of joy - to jump for joy - to shout for/with joy - to weep for/with joy Ex. The children have given us great joy Ex. Reading poetry is one of my greatest joys gladness = happiness felicity The felicity of marriage deligh - to do something with great delight - to take delight in doing something Ex. He discovered the delights of travelling at a young age.

He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword = chi di spada ferisce di spada perisce

Tomorrow's another day = domani è un altro giorno

Chi dorme non piglia pesci

The early bird catches the worm Sleeping foxes catch no poultry

Sognare ad occhi aperti

to daydream to fantasize to stargaze to be wool-gathering to dream on

To run like the wind = correre come il vento

Sognare ad occhi aperti = to daydream to fantasize to stargaze to be wool-gathering to dream on

- To dream away the hours = passare le ore sognando - I couldn-t believe my eyes - I thought I was dreaming = Mi sembra di sognare - I would never dream of telling him = Non mi sognerei mai di dirglielo

I found him trussed up like a guinea/fowl = lo trovai legato come un salame

- To truss up = legare strettamente, immobilizzare con le funi - The robbers trussed up the guard = i rapinatori impacchettarono la guardia - Guinea = ghinea - antica moneta d’oro inglese del valore nominale di 21 scellini - Guinea-pig = cavia - The doctor used the patient as a guinea-pig to test the new drug = il dottore usò il paziente come cavia per sperimentare il nuovo farmaco. - (Helmeted) guinea-fowl = gallina faraona - Guinea-fowl = guinea-hen - Guinea-worm = dracunculo, filaria di Medina, verme di Guinea, serpente di fuoco

To have one's head in the clouds = avere la testa nelle nuvole

To try to get blood out of a stone = voler cavare sangue da una rapa

- Turnip, rape, round rape = rapa - Turnip, blockhead, dummy = testa di rapa

To have a viperish tongue = avere una lingua di vipera

- Viperid, Viper = vipera - A nest of vipers = un nido di vipere - The viper’s poisonous sting = il morso velenoso della vipera - That woman is a viper = quella donna è una serpe velenosa - Viperish = viperino, di vipera, velenoso (aggettivo) - A viperish tongue = una lingua velenosa

Don't trust him, he's a snake (in the grass)

- Snake = serpente - Rattler, rattlesnake = serpente a sonagli - Boa constrictor = serpente boa - Water snake, grass snake = serpente d’acqua - Spectacled cobra/serpent/snake = serpente dagli occhiali - Nut-house, nut factory (US) = fossa dei serpenti