Proverbs & Sayings ENG to SPN

Question 1

A picture is worth a thousand words

Answer 1

Una imagen dice más que mil palabras

Question 2

A watched pot never boils

Answer 2

El que espera, desespera.

Question 3

Actions speak louder than words.

Answer 3

Obras son amores, no buenas razones.

Question 4

All that glitters is not gold.

Answer 4

No todo que relumbra es oro.

Question 5

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Answer 5

Más vale prevenir que remediar (lamentar).

Question 6

Appearances are deceiving.

Answer 6

Las apariencias engañan.

Question 7

Better late than never.

Answer 7

Más vale tarde que nunca.

Question 8

Birds of a feather flock together.

Answer 8

Diós los cría y ellos se juntan.

Question 9

Blood is thicker than water.

Answer 9

Duele más el cuero que la camisa.

Question 10

Cold hands, warm heart.

Answer 10

Manos frías, corazón ardiente

Question 11

Charity begins at home.

Answer 11

La caridad por casa empieza.

Question 12

Don’t cast your pearls before swine.

Answer 12

No les tires margaritas a los puercos.

Question 13

Don’t cry over spilled milk

Answer 13

Palo dado, ni Diós lo quita.

Ya ni llorar es bueno.

Question 14

Don’t bite off more than you can chew

Answer 14

Él que mucho abarca poco aprieta.

Question 15

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Answer 15

No hay mal que por bien no venga.

Question 16

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Answer 16

No hay rey para el ayuda de cámara.

Question 17

God helps those who help themselves.

Answer 17

A Diós rogando y con el mazo dando.

Diós dice: ayúdate que yo te ayudaré.

Question 18

God tempers the shorn lamb

Answer 18

Diós aprieta pero no ahorca.

Question 19

He laughs best who laughs last.

Answer 19

Él air ríe al último, ríe mejor.

Question 20

He’s a chip off the old block.

Answer 20

De tal palo, tal astilla.

Question 21

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

Answer 21

El que paga, manda.

Question 22

His bark is worse than his bite.

Answer 22

Perro que ladra no muerde.

Question 23

If at first you don’t succeed, try try again

Answer 23

Él que porfía mata venado.

Él que persevera alcanza.

Question 24

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

Answer 24

Si no puedes con ellos, únete a ellos.

Si no se puede vencer, hay que a aliarse.

Question 25

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Answer 25

En tierra de ciegos, el tuerto es rey.

Question 26

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Answer 26

Nunca está más oscuro que cuando va a amanecer.

Question 27

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Answer 27

Aprendiz de todo, oficial de nada.

Question 28

Like father, like son.

Answer 28

Hijo de tigre, pintito. De tal palo, tal astilla.

Question 29

Look before you leap.

Answer 29

Antes de que te cases, mira lo que haces.

Question 30

Marriages are made in heaven.

Answer 30

Matrimonio y mortaja, del cielo baja.

Question 31

Money makes the world go around.

Answer 31

Poderoso caballero es don dinero. Con dinero baila el perro.

Question 32

One good turn deserves another.

Answer 32

El amor con amor se paga.

Question 33

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Answer 33

En gustos se rompen géneros.

Question 34

Out of sight, out of mind.

Answer 34

Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente.

Question 35

Silence is consent.

Answer 35

Él que calla, otorga.

Question 36

The early bird gets the worm.

Answer 36

Al que madruga, Dios lo ayuda.

Question 37

The fat is in the fire.

Answer 37

La cosa ya no tiene remedio.

Question 38

The pot calling the kettle black.

Answer 38

El comal le dijo a la olla. El burro hablando de orejas.

Question 39

The proof is in the pudding.

Answer 39

A las pruebas me remito.

Question 40

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

Answer 40

El camino al infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones.

Question 41

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

Answer 41

Hay muchos modos de matar las pulgas.

Question 42

There's more to it than meets the eye

Answer 42

Aquí hay mar de fondo.

Question 43

Two's company, three's a crowd.

Answer 43

Dos es compañía, tres es multitud.

Question 44

What can't be cured must be endured.

Answer 44

A lo hecho, pecho.

Question 45

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Answer 45

Todos coludos o todos rabones. Todos hijos o todos entenados.

Question 46

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Answer 46

A la tierra que fueres, haz lo que vieres.

Question 47

When it rains, it pours.

Answer 47

Siempre llueve sobre mojado. Las desgracias nunca vienen solas.

Question 48

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Answer 48

Cuando el río suena, agua lleva.

Question 49

You can't get a leopard to change his spots.

Answer 49

Genio y figura, hasta la sepultura.

Question 50

You can't have your cake and eat it, too.

Answer 50

No se puede chiflar y comer pinole No se puede repicar y andar en la procesión.

Question 51

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Answer 51

Las apariencias engañan.

Question 52

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Answer 52

Aunque la mona se viste de seda, mona se queda.

Question 53

You have to learn to walk before you can run.

Answer 53

No puedes andar y quieres correr.

Question 54

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush

Answer 54

Más vale pájaro en mano que cien volando.