As They Say In Zanzibar. David Crystal

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      1 Hit one ring and the whole chain will resound SOUTH AFRICA

      2 A chain is as strong as its weakest link ENGLAND

      3 One link broken, the whole chain is broken GERMANY

      4 Pull gently at a weak rope NETHERLANDS

      5 An ox is bound with ropes and a person with words ITALY

      6 Men hold the buffalo by its rope, a ruler by his word INDONESIA

      7 If a string has one end, then it has another end CHINA

      8 The string of our sack of patience is generally tied with a slip knot JAPAN

      9 If the string is long the kite will fly high CHINA

      10 The tighter the string, the sooner it will break WALES

      11 There is bound to be a knot in a very long string KENYA

      1 One rotten egg spoils the whole pudding GERMANY

      2 One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel ENGLAND

      3 One spot spots the whole dress BELGIUM

      4 Those who seek the entrance should also think of the exit GERMANY

      5 When luck offers a finger one must take the whole hand SWEDEN

      6 Who does not understand half a word will not be wiser for a whole word FINLAND

      7 Every art requires the whole person FRANCE

      8 One link broken, the whole chain is broken GERMANY

      9 One needn’t devour the whole chicken to know the flavour of the bird CHINA

      10 Hit one ring and the whole chain will resound SOUTH AFRICA

      11 Better lose the anchor than the whole ship NETHERLANDS

      12 It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely CHINA

      13 One bad pipe ruins the entire organ NETHERLANDS

      14 You cannot take one part of a fowl for cooking and leave the other part to lay eggs INDIA

      15 The first thread is not part of the yarn IRELAND

      16 Discretion is the better part of valour ENGLAND

      17 To get out a rusty nail you must take away a piece of the wall MALTA

      18 What is inflated too much will burst into fragments ETHIOPIA

      19 The town that parleys is half surrendered FRANCE

      20 The story is only half told when one side tells it ICELAND

      21 Chop, and you will have splinters DENMARK

      22 For the diligent, a week has seven days; for the slothful, seven tomorrows GERMANY

      23 If a string has one end, then it has another end CHINA

      1 A coconut shell full of water is a sea to an ant ZANZIBAR

      2 The hollow of the ear is never full SENEGAL

      3 Full of courtesy, full of craft ENGLAND

      4 Solitude is full of God SERBIA

      5 No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow REPUBLIC OF CONGO

      6 The fuller the cask, the duller its sound GERMANY

      7 The fuller the cup, the sooner the spill CHINA

      8 A full cup must be carried steadily ENGLAND

      9 The fish said, ‘I have much to say, but my mouth is full of water.’ GEORGIA

      10 Idle curiosity sometimes fills the mousetrap NETHERLANDS

      11 To fill a ditch a mound must come down ARMENIA

      12 While it rains, fill the jar TURKEY

      13 Do not fill your basket with useless shells of coconuts KENYA3 PROVERBS IN SHAKESPEAREThere are a large number of proverbial expressions in Shakespeare – which is hardly surprising, given the important role played by proverbs in Elizabethan schools.Many are traditional proverbs, sometimes acknowledged to be so. John Hume, in Henry VI Part Two (I.ii.100) reflects:They say ‘A crafty knave does need no broker’ and in The Comedy of Errors (II.ii.45) Dromio of Syracuse comments:they say every why hath a wherefore.‘They say’. This is tradition, not Shakespeare, talking. And Shakespeare explicitly refers to ‘proverbs’ on a number of occasions.On the other hand, many of the proverbs in Shakespeare are rephrasings, often adapted to suit the metrical demands of a poetic line. Hume’s reference is a case in point, for the traditional expression is ‘A crafty knave needs no broker’. Proverbial allusions may also reflect the personality of a character. ‘Comparisons are odorous’, says Dogberry malapropistically (in Much Ado About Nothing, III.v.15).Some are original to Shakespeare: thanks to Polonius, for example, we have ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’ (Hamlet, I.iii.75) and ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ (Hamlet, II.ii.90). Here, as elsewhere, there is a thin line between a quotation and a proverb. Is ‘All the world’s a stage’ (As You Like СКАЧАТЬ