Feb 23, 2013 18:13
12 yrs ago
English term

Great boats little toast

English to Persian (Farsi) Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
"Great boats little toast" it is a saying
Proposed translations (Persian (Farsi))
5 +6 جیب خالی، پز عالی

Proposed translations

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جیب خالی، پز عالی

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Note added at 4 mins (2013-02-23 18:17:53 GMT)
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Also:
آفتابه لگن هفت دست، شام و نهار هیچی.

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Note added at 14 mins (2013-02-23 18:27:40 GMT)
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I wonder why there is no result for this so-called saying in English websites when I Google it.
Note from asker:
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Peer comment(s):

agree Mohammad Salimian
1 min
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agree Reza Ebrahimi
14 mins
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agree Tahmineh Zardasht
29 mins
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agree Mitra Mousavi : http://arta-si.blogfa.com/post-32.aspx-http://alijafarnode.b...
37 mins
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agree Zeynab Tajik
39 mins
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agree Mohammad Ali Omrani
1 hr
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neutral Edward Plaisance Jr : I don't think this is even an English saying...it doesn't make any sense...I think it may be someone's translation from Persian جیر خالی پزعالی and should read "great boast, little toast"...but again, it's not an English saying that I have ever heard
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