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مواعيد عرقوب


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12:04 Nov 8, 2009
Arabic to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Arabic term or phrase: مواعيد عرقوب
مواعيد عرقوب هى تلك االوعود الكاذبة التي يطلقها كل زائر الى المنطقة العربية وفي حين لا يريد أحد منهم السلام الحقيقى
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5promises, like piecrust, are made to be broken
DRIHEM
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Nadia Ayoub

  

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promises, like piecrust, are made to be broken


Explanation:
People cannot be depended
upon to keep their word: She promised never
to mention the incident again, but promises, like
piecrust, are made to be broken, and she couldn’t
resist retelling the story—much to my embarrassment—
at a dinner party the following week.
The proverb was fi rst recorded in 1681, in
the periodical Heraclitus Ridens: “He makes
no more of breaking Acts of Parliaments,
than if they were like Promises and Piecrust
made to be broken.”
Variant of this proverb: promises are
like piecrust: easy made and easy broken.
Proverb expressing opposite meaning:
a man’s word is as good as his
bond.

DRIHEM
Algeria
Local time: 05:53
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in PolishPolish
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Nadia Ayoub
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