As They Say In Zanzibar. David Crystal

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      1 They must stoop who have a low door SCOTLAND

      2 A door must either be open or shut FRANCE

      3 Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself CHINA

      4 When one door shuts, another opens SCOTLAND

      5 Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot IRELAND

      6 Shut your door in such a way that you can open it again DENMARK

      7 Why seek the key of an open door? INDIA

      8 Let everyone sweep before their own door GERMANY

      9 You must go behind the door to mend old breeches ENGLAND

      10 There’s a puddle at every door, and before some doors there are two SCOTLAND

      11 On going into a church leave the world behind the door SPAIN

      12 A hole here and there is not the same as a window KENYA

      13 It is no use applying eye-medicine from a two-storey window JAPAN

      14 Don’t put all your goods in your shop window USA

      15 ‘If I rest, I rust’, says the key GERMANY

      16 The used key is always bright ENGLAND

      17 Those who would enter paradise must have a good key ENGLAND

      18 Beware of the door which has several keys INDIA

      19 All the keys in the land do not hang from one girdle SCOTLAND

      20 The key that opens is also the key that locks REPUBLIC OF CONGO

      1 Seven days is the length of a guest’s life MYANMAR

      2 A guest and a fish after three days are poison FRANCE

      3 Let the guests at table be three or four – at the most five GREECE

      4 Children regard their father’s guest as a slave REPUBLIC OF CONGO

      5 Aching teeth are ill tenants ENGLAND

      6 The later in the evening, the nicer the people NETHERLANDS

      1 Absence makes the heart grow fonder ENGLAND

      2 You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence NIGERIA

      3 The absent get farther off every day JAPAN

      4 The absent always bear the blame NETHERLANDS

      5 Whose presence does no good, their absence does no harm ENGLAND

      6 Easy come, easy go ENGLAND

      7 Away from the battle all are soldiers GERMANY

      8 An apple a day keeps the doctor away ENGLAND

      9 Take away the wife of a strong man only when he is out UGANDA

      10 Time to catch bears is when they’re out USA

      11 Here today and gone tomorrow ENGLAND

      12 Present to the eye, present to the mind CHINA

      13 While the cat’s away, the mice will play ENGLAND

      14 A proverb characterizes nations, but must first dwell among them SWITZERLAND

      1 Don’t rely on the label of the bag FRANCE

      2 An empty bag cannot stand upright ENGLAND

      3 At the bottom of the bag one finds the bill NETHERLANDS

      4 It is folly to put flour into a bag facing the wind GERMANY

      5 After the game the king goes into the sack like the pawn ITALY

      6 If you look in a chief’s bag you will always find something UGANDA

      7 That which goes last into the sack comes out first SWEDEN

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

      9 An empty sack can’t stand, nor a dead cat walk IRELAND

      1 Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel CHINA

      2 One rotten apple spoils the СКАЧАТЬ