Apple Proverbs
Sayings about Apples
One of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple.
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
You can count the apples on a tree but you can’t count the trees from one apple.
An apple never falls far from the tree.
Good looking apples are sometimes sour.
If you want apples, you have to shake the trees.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
Sometimes it is better to give your apple away than to eat it yourself.
No apple tree is immune from worms.
Different men have different opinions — some prefer apples, some onions.
Quotations about Apples
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
Henry David Thoreau
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Edward Sagan
My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman’s ever been taken entirely unawares…. When a woman’s kissed it’s because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!— Dorothy Parker
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any trees, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
Henry David Thoreau
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman’s punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther Quotes
Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?
Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.
Henry David Thoreau
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising out of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer–apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.
Oh! Happy are the apples when the south winds blow.
William Wallace Harney
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Bernard M. Baruch
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pessimism is as American as apple pie – frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.— George Will
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.— William Somerset Maugham
I tell you, all politics is apple sauce.— Will Rogers
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.— Henry David Thoreau
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Fruits Proverbs
Sayings about Fruits
The children eat the fruit and the father sleeps on the peel.
Bitter fruit will fall before the ripe.
Little by little grow the bananas.
Looking at a tree see its fruit; looking at a man see his deeds.
Lower your head modestly while passing, and you will harvest bananas.
Some men will build a wine cellar when they have found just one grape.
Receive a plum, return a peach.
Don’t show me the palm tree, show me the dates.
A dead cherry tree will not blossom.
The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
The oldest trees bear the softest fruits.
Big trees cast more shadow than fruit.
Vanity blossoms but bears no fruit.
The tree of silence bears the fruits of peace.
It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink.
One eats figs whilst the other pays.
Women, melons, and cheese are bought by the weight.
No melon peddler cries, “Bitter melons.” No wine dealer says, “Sour wine.
A strawberry blossom will not moisten dry bread.
Ripe fruit falls by itself, but it does not fall into your mouth.
In a tree that you can’t climb, there are always a thousand fruits.
An ass does not appreciate fruit compote.
Not all the tree’s blossoms will bear fruit.
The branch that bears the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground.
A coconut shell full of water is a sea to an ant.
When the figs are ripe all the birds want to eat.
You cannot carry two watermelons in one hand.
Marriage is a little bit like buying melons, you need a little luck.
Women and melons are at their best when they are really ripe.
The world is like that: one gives a melon, the other gets the stomach cramps.
A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer’s garden.
Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit.
Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.
Conversation is like making love; the man is the question, the woman the answer, and the union of both will bear fruit.
Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves.
The trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit.
A dog doesn’t like bananas, but he can’t bear to think that chickens eat them.
Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.
You don’t have to cut a tree down to get at the fruit.
When the monkey can’t reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.
A good tree bears good fruit.
The better the fruit, the more wasps to eat it.
When eating the fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
What you give to others bears fruit for yourself.
We will be grateful to flowers only if they have born fruits.
Half of an orange tastes just as sweet as a whole one.
A woman is like a banana; one alone can turn the whole bunch rotten.
He who would enjoy the fruit must not spoil the blossoms.
Elm trees have beautiful branches but hardly ever bear fruit.
Many flowers, few fruits.
A fruit tree that grows in a dung heap will certainly blossom.
Solomon Islander Proverb
No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree.
If heaven drops a date, open your mouth.
Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm.
One armpit cannot hold two watermelons.
He ate one fig and he thought the autumn had come.
Saving mustard seeds in hand, while a watermelon escapes.
Give your friend a pig and your enemy a peach.
Beautiful grapes often make poor wine.
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
A woman’s belly is a garden with many fruits.
The fire is winter’s fruit.
All birds will flock to a fruitful tree.
All the fruit is not found in just one field.
The fruit of silence is tranquillity.
Saudi Arabian Proverb
Eat coconuts while you have teeth.
The pumpkin vine never bears watermelons.
Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
If you had teeth of steel, you could eat iron coconuts.
A woman and a melon are hard to choose.
It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.
A pear will never fall into a closed mouth.
Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.
It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.
A black plum is as sweet as a white.
Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
He who wants fruit should not pick flowers.
The hanging fruit is never too heavy for the creeper to bear.
A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit.
Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.
A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.
Sharing the figs can leave you with none at all.
Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.
The best cook drops a whole tomato.
Mock the palm tree only when the date harvest is over.
You can’t pick up two melons with one hand.
Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.
Grapes picked too early don’t even make good vinegar.
Pears and women are the sweetest in the parts that are heaviest.
A grape that sees another gets ripe.
An orange never bears a lime.
Sierra Leonean Proverb
Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first.
You shake in vain the branch that bears no fruit.
Patience is a bitter plant but it has a sweet fruit.
A woman’s belly is a garden with many kinds of fruit.
Quotations about Fruits
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
A man is not an orange. You can’t eat the fruit and throw the peel away.
Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can’t. The brain doesn’t process negatives.
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
California is a fine place to live, if you happen to be an orange.
Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
Orange is the happiest color.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
Let the fresh fruits and vegetables be your guide, and make something that will keep for the whole week.
Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.
Time flies like an arrow – but fruit flies like a banana.
Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
John Stuart Mill
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent Van Gogh
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable, each segment distinct.
Lefty Cotton Pogrebin
You have to give people permission to laugh. That’s why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
Bananas are more like flowers, … you can’t mess around with them.
God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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Самые сочные английские идиомы о фруктах
Фрукты — любимое летнее лакомство многих людей. Поэтому мы решили посвятить эту статью ароматным сочным плодам, а вернее идиомам на английском языке о фруктах. Узнайте, какие страны англичане называют банановыми республиками и почему не нужно сравнивать яблоки с апельсинами.
A banana republic — банановая республика.
Дословно — банановая республика.
Значение идиомы:
Так говорят о бедных странах, в которых высокий уровень коррупции и инфляции, слабая экономика, низкая оплата труда и т. д.
История идиомы:
Это выражение используется и в русском языке, но пришло оно к нам из США. Так, в 1870 году один американский предприниматель начал закупать бананы на Ямайке и продавал их в Бостоне с огромной наценкой. При этом бананы стоили дешевле привычных американцам яблок и были гораздо питательнее. Конечно, продажи росли с каждым днем, и постепенно образовалась компания «Юнайтед фрут компани», преобразованная затем в «Чикиту». Эта мощная корпорация выросла из маленького бананового бизнеса и контролировала большинство стран Центральной Америки, где располагались ее банановые плантации. По сути, экономика этих государств напрямую зависела от «Чикиты», то есть от бананов. Поэтому их и стали называть «банановыми республиками».
Пример употребления:
They fear that their country will become a banana republic if the government doesn’t adopt the measures required to pick up the economy. — Они боятся, что их страна станет банановой республикой, если правительство не примет меры, необходимые для экономического роста.
Sour grapes — зелен виноград, зависть, притворное равнодушие.
Дословно — кислый виноград.
Значение идиомы:
Этими словами англоговорящие показывают притворное пренебрежение к тому, что им недоступно. Пример такой ситуации: человек хотел чего-то достичь, но у него не получилось, и теперь он всем говорит, что не очень-то ему и хотелось получить желаемое.
История идиомы:
Происхождение этой идиомы, которая есть и в русском языке, известно многим. В басне Эзопа (а также у Крылова) «Лисица и виноград», как вы помните, лиса не смогла достать желанную веточку с ягодами, поэтому начала утешать себя тем, что ягоды неспелые:
Ну, что ж!
На взгляд-то он хорош,
Да зелен — ягодки нет зрелой:
Тотчас оскомину набьешь.
Вот из этого замечательного произведения люди и взяли фразеологизм «зелен виноград», который употребляют, когда человек делает вид, что ему наплевать на то, что желаемая цель не достигнута.
Пример употребления:
My friend cannot afford to buy a new BMW, so she criticizes my car. But I know it is just sour grapes. — У моей подруги нет денег, чтобы купить новый BMW, поэтому она критикует мою машину. Но я знаю, что это зависть.
To upset the apple cart — испортить планы, все испортить, разрушить все (обычно в переносном смысле).
Дословно — опрокинуть телегу с яблоками.
Значение идиомы:
Это выражение используют в ситуации, когда человек своими действиями разрушил чьи-то планы, причинил кому-то неприятности или вызвал беспокойство.
История идиомы:
Идиома появилась в те времена, когда автомобилей еще не было и торговцы привозили на рынок фрукты и овощи в телегах на лошадях. Телеги должны были стоять ровно и устойчиво, ведь круглые яблоки легко скатывались с них. Если же кто-то неосмотрительно двигал телегу или неаккуратно брал яблоки, то фрукты скатывались на землю, легко бились и портились, их уже было не продать. Таким образом, неаккуратный человек портил планы по продаже яблок хозяину телеги.
Пример употребления:
She was enjoying shopping until her husband upset the apple cart by taking away his credit card. — Она наслаждалась шопингом, пока ее муж не испортил все тем, что забрал свою кредитную карту.
А теперь познакомьтесь с еще 10 сочными выражениями и идиомами о фруктах на английском языке.
| Идиома | Перевод | Пример употребления |
|---|---|---|
| to compare apples and oranges | сравнивать совершенно разные вещи, сравнивать божий дар с яичницей, сравнивать теплое с мягким | You can’t compare state schools and private ones — it’s like comparing apples and oranges. Нельзя сравнивать государственные и частные школы — это как сравнивать теплое с мягким. |
| the apple never falls far from the tree | яблочко от яблоньки недалеко падает | — Stacy is envious, just like her mother. — Yeah, the apple never falls far from the tree. — Стейси завистливая, совсем как ее мать. |
| a bad/rotten apple (a rotten apple spoils the barrel) | паршивая овца; плохой человек, который и других склоняет к плохим поступкам | Tom seemed like a good lad, but he turned out to be a bad apple and spoilt his friends. Том казался хорошим парнем, но он оказался паршивой овцой и испортил своих друзей. |
| to go bananas | сойти с ума (обычно в переносном смысле), потерять контроль над собой, сильно разозлиться | I almost went bananas when he told me he was going to move to Saint Petersburg. Я чуть не сошла с ума, когда он сказал мне, что собирается переезжать в Санкт-Петербург. |
| to cherry-pick (something) | очень тщательно выбирать (что-то), выбирать что-то лучшее (иногда несправедливым путем) | You should cherry-pick the furniture for your children’s room. Тебе следует тщательно подбирать мебель для детской комнаты. |
| a bowl of cherries | что-то приятное, прекрасное | I won a lottery and bought a car. Life is a bowl of cherries! Я выиграл в лотерею и купил машину. Жизнь прекрасна! |
| Life is a bowl of cherries! | Жизнь прекрасна! | |
| peaches and cream (peaches-and-cream complexion) | приятное событие; красивая кожа, кожа как персик | She is a young girl that’s why she has a peaches-and-cream complexion. Она молоденькая девушка, поэтому ее кожа как персик. |
| to be a peach | быть хорошим, очень приятным (чаще говорят о человеке); первый сорт; приятный человек | Susan baked me a delicious cake. She’s a real peach! Сьюзан испекла мне вкуснейший торт. Она классная! |
| Life is a peach! | Жизнь прекрасна! | |
| to be as nutty as a fruitcake = to be nuttier than a fruitcake | быть очень странным человеком, быть сумасшедшим (обычно в переносном смысле) | Peter is just nuttier than a fruitcake! He hitchhiked alone around Mexico. Питер — просто сумасшедший! Он путешествовал автостопом в одиночку по Мексике. |
| the cherry on top | вишенка на торте, приятный бонус, изюминка | I won a competition and got a prize, but the contract with Nike was the cherry on top. Я выиграл соревнование и получил приз, но контракт с «Найк» был вишенкой на торте. |
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