B
BABY
Don't throw (or empty) the baby out with the bath water. ⇒ 教訓 81
BAD
A bad bush is better than the open field. ⇒ 教訓 74
A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools. ⇒ 教訓 82
A bad excuse is better than none. ⇒ 教訓74
A bad penny always comes back (or turns up). ⇒ 教訓159
A bad shearer never had a good sickle. ⇒ 教訓 82
A bad workman always blames his tools. ⇒ 教訓 82
A bad workman finds fault with his tools. ⇒ 教訓 82
Bad money drives out good.[Thomas Gresham] ⇒ 教訓159
Bad news travels fast. ⇒ 教訓200
Better be alone than bad company. ⇒ 教訓131
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. ⇒ 教訓122
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. ⇒ 教訓201
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. ⇒ 教訓 66
Make the best of a bad bargain. ⇒ 教訓104
Make the best of a bad job. ⇒ 教訓104
Money is a good servant, but a bad master. ⇒ 教訓152
Nothing is so bad in which there is not something of good. ⇒ 教訓
1
Nothing so bad but it might have been worse. ⇒ 教訓 62
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. ⇒ 教訓224
Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. ⇒ 教訓 81
The receiver is as bad as the thief. ⇒ 教訓161
There is no devil so bad as a she-devil. ⇒ コトワザこぼれ話(5)
There is no such thing as as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.
⇒ 教訓 77
Three removes (or removals) are as bad as a fire. ⇒ 教訓 98
Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it
is bad for the pitcher. ⇒ 教訓 77・ ⇒ 教訓144
You have to take the good with the bad. ⇒ 教訓 57
BAIT
The bait hides the hook. ⇒ 教訓 22
The fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait. ⇒ 教訓121
BALANCE
The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead. ⇒ 教訓 55
BALL
That's the way the ball bounces. ⇒ 教訓 57
BARGAIN
A bargain is a bargain. ⇒ 教訓195
It takes two to make a bargain. ⇒ 教訓132
Make the best of a bad bargain. ⇒ 教訓104
BARK
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. ⇒ 教訓 24
Barking dogs seldom (or never) bite. ⇒ 教訓21・ ⇒ 教訓263
I will not keep a dog and bark myself. ⇒ 教訓143 ⇒ 教訓143
One's bark is worse than one's bite. ⇒ 教訓263
Why keep a dog and bark yourself? ⇒ 教訓143
BASKET
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. ⇒ 教訓125
BATH
Don't throw (or empty) the baby out with the bath water. ⇒ 教訓 81
BATTALION
God (or Providence) is always on the side of the big battalions. ⇒
教訓 52
BEAR
Catch your bear before you sell its skin. ⇒ 教訓 65
The boughs that bear most hang lowest. ⇒ 教訓 24
You must grin and bear it. ⇒ 教訓104
BEARD
It is not the beard that makes the philosopher. ⇒ 教訓 27
BEAUTIFUL
Small is beautiful. ⇒ 教訓 29
BEAUTY
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.[John Keats] ⇒ 教訓16
An enemy to beauty is a foe to nature. ⇒ 教訓 16
Beauty and folly go often in company. ⇒ 教訓 18
Beauty and honesty (or wisdom) seldom agree. ⇒ 教訓 18
Beauty draws more than oxen. ⇒ 教訓 18
Beauty draws with A single hair. ⇒ 教訓 18
Beauty fades like a flower. ⇒ 教訓 17
Beauty is but (or only) skin deep.[John Davies of Hereford] ⇒ 教訓
17
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ⇒ 教訓 19
Beauty opens locked doors. ⇒ 教訓 18
Goodness is better than beauty. ⇒ 教訓 28
Health and gaiety foster beauty. ⇒ 教訓 28
BED,BEDFELLOW
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ⇒ 教訓220
Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
⇒ 教訓115
Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark. ⇒ 教訓115
Misery (or Misfortune, or Adversity, or Poverty) makes strange bedfellows.
⇒ 教訓139
Politics makes strange bedfellows. ⇒ 教訓128
BEE
Where bees are, there is honey. 教訓⇒ 41・ ⇒ 217
BEER
Life is not all beer and skittles. ⇒ 教訓 56
BEGGAR
Beggars must (or can) not be choosers. ⇒ 教訓249
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. ⇒ 教訓 93
BEGIN,BEGINNING
A good beginning makes a good ending. ⇒ 教訓 87
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. ⇒ 教訓30・
⇒ 教訓103
As soon as man is born he begins to die. ⇒ 教訓 49
Charity begins at home.[Terence] ⇒ 教訓 4
Everything must have a beginning. ⇒ 教訓 30
He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
⇒ 教訓99
He who begins many things, finishes but few. ⇒ 教訓 84
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. ⇒ 教訓100
If red the sun begins his race, expect that rain will flow apace.
⇒ コトワザこぼれ話(3)
Life begins at forty. ⇒ 教訓 56・ ⇒ 教訓177
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending. ⇒ 教訓 88
The longest journey begins with a single step. ⇒ 教訓 87・ ⇒
教訓103
When things are at the worst they begin to mend. ⇒ 教訓 59
BELIEVE
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. ⇒ 教訓193
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. ⇒
教訓176
To see is to believe. ⇒ 教訓176
We soon believe what we desire. ⇒ 教訓 95
BELL
Who will bell the cat?[Aesop] ⇒ 教訓215
BELLY
A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. ⇒ 教訓236
Praises fill not the belly. ⇒ 教訓210
The eye is bigger than the belly. ⇒ 教訓 20
BEND
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. ⇒ 教訓182
As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined. ⇒ 教訓182
Best to bend while it is a twig. ⇒ 教訓182
Better bend (or bow) than break. ⇒ 教訓 77・ ⇒ 教訓 97
BESTOW
Flowers leave fragrance in the hand that bestows them. ⇒ 教訓221
He who gives to another bestows on himself. ⇒ 教訓221
BIRD
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ⇒ 教訓 5
An early bird catches the worm. ⇒ 教訓115
Birds are entangled by their feet, and men by their tongues. ⇒ 教訓198
Birds in their little nests agree.[Isaac Watts] ⇒ 教訓133
Birds of a feather flock together. ⇒ 教訓128
Bread is better than the songs of birds. ⇒ 教訓155
Every bird likes its own nest best. ⇒ 教訓 4
Every crow thinks its own bird bonniest. ⇒ 教訓255
Fine feathers make fine birds. ⇒ 教訓 26
In vain the net is spread in the sight of the bird. ⇒ 教訓 81
It is a foolish bird that soils its own nest. ⇒ 教訓 4
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. ⇒ 教訓4
One beats the bush, and another catches the birds. ⇒ 教訓 2
The crow thinks her own bird fairest. ⇒ 教訓255
You cannot catch old birds with chaff. ⇒ 教訓177
BITE
Barking dogs seldom (or never) bite. ⇒ 教訓21・ ⇒ 教訓263
Dead men don't bite. ⇒ 教訓162
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ⇒ 教訓156
If you cannot bite never show your teeth. ⇒ 教訓223
Never make two bites of a cherry. ⇒ 教訓101
One's bark is worse than one's bite. ⇒ 教訓263
The biter is sometimes bit. ⇒ 教訓222
BITTEN
He that has been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope. ⇒ 教訓183
Once bitten, twice shy. ⇒ 教訓183
BITTER
A good medicine sometimes tastes bitter. ⇒ 教訓204
Good medicine tastes bitter to the mouth. ⇒ 教訓204
Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits. ⇒ 教訓172
Take the bitter with the sweet. ⇒ 教訓 57
BLACK
A black hen lays a white egg. ⇒ 教訓 21
Black cows give white milk. ⇒ 教訓 21
If the master say the cow is white the servant must not say 'tis black.
⇒ 教訓144
The devil is not so black as he is painted. ⇒ 教訓 1
The pot calls (or called) the kettle black. ⇒ 教訓223
There is a black sheep in every flock. 教訓130
Two blacks do not make a white. ⇒ 教訓163
BLESS
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.[Alexander
Pope] ⇒ 教訓 66
It is more blessed to give than to receive. ⇒ 教訓158
BLIND
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ⇒ 教訓 91 ⇒ 教訓206
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [Matthew]
⇒ 教訓143
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ⇒ 教訓228
Love is blind. ⇒ 教訓253
Men are blind in their own cause. ⇒ 教訓 95
None so blind as those who won't see. ⇒ 教訓 91
BLISS
Ignorance is bliss. ⇒ 教訓168
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.[Thomas Gray] ⇒ 教訓168
BLOOD
Blood will have blood. ⇒ 教訓222
Blood will tell. ⇒ 教訓238
Good blood cannot lie. ⇒ 教訓238
You cannot get water (or blood) out of stone. ⇒ 教訓 76
BLOW
A straw shows which way the wind blows. ⇒ 教訓 41
It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. ⇒ 教訓 58
Straws show (or tell) which way the wind blows. ⇒ 教訓 41
The first blow is half the battle. ⇒ 教訓 87
BODY
Little body often harbors a great soul. ⇒ 教訓 29
BOLD
A(or Every) cock is bold on his own dunghill. ⇒ 教訓 4
Fortune favors the bold. ⇒ 教訓 96
Innocence is bold. ⇒ 教訓260
BONE
Hard words break no bones. ⇒ 教訓211
Hunger makes hard bones sweet beans. ⇒ 教訓 90
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
⇒ 教訓211
The dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone. ⇒ 教訓200・
⇒ 教訓235
Two dogs fight for a bone and a (or the) third runs away with it.
⇒ 教訓 8
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. ⇒ 教訓238
While two dogs are fighting for A bone, A third runs away with it.
⇒ 教訓 8
BOOK
Books and friends should be few but good. ⇒ 教訓140
Don't judge a book by its cover. ⇒ 教訓 25
Years know more than books. ⇒ 教訓177
You can't tell a book by its cover. ⇒ 教訓 25
BOOT
A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots
on. ⇒ 教訓200
Don't judge a man until you've walked in his boots. ⇒ 教訓214
BORROWER
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.[Shakespeare] ⇒ 教訓137・ ⇒
教訓158
BOTTOM
Every tub must stand on its own bottom. ⇒ 教訓249
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. ⇒ 教訓100
The best fish swim near the bottom. ⇒ 教訓 11
Truth lies at the bottom of a well. ⇒ 教訓190
BOUGH
Don't cut the bough you are standing on. ⇒ 教訓156
The boughs that bear most hang lowest. ⇒ 教訓 24
BOY
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. ⇒ 教訓 3
Boys , be ambitious. ⇒教訓92
Boys will be boys.[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] ⇒ 教訓236
Naughty boys sometimes make good men. ⇒ 教訓180
BRAG
They brag most who can do least. ⇒ 教訓 23・ ⇒ 教訓212
BRAIN
An idle brain is the devil's workshop. ⇒ 教訓213
Women have long hair and short brains. ⇒ コトワザこぼれ話(6)
BRANCH
The highest branch is not the safest roost. ⇒ 教訓123
BRASS
Where there's muck there's brass. ⇒ 教訓152
BRAVE
A coward dies many deaths, a brave man but one. ⇒ 教訓262
None but the brave deserves the fair.[John Dryden] ⇒ 教訓 96・
⇒ 教訓254
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
⇒ 教訓 97
BREAD
Bread is better than the songs of birds. ⇒ 教訓155
Bread is the staff of life. ⇒ 教訓155
Don't quarrel with your bread and butter. ⇒ 教訓156
Half a loaf is better than no bread. ⇒ 教訓 74
Hope is the poor man's bread. ⇒ 教訓 60
Know which side one's bread is buttered on. ⇒ 教訓156
Man cannot (or shall not) live by bread alone. [Matthew] ⇒ 教訓 153
The bread never falls but on its buttered side. ⇒ 教訓 51
You may see by a bit what the bread is. ⇒ 教訓 41
BREAKFAST
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. ⇒ 教訓 66
If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night. ⇒ 教訓 63
Sing before breakfast, cry before night. ⇒ 教訓 63
BREAST
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.[Alexander Pope] ⇒ 教訓
60
BREED
Birth is much but breeding is more. ⇒ 教訓242
Eagles do not breed doves. ⇒ 教訓240
Familiarity breeds contempt. ⇒ 教訓 6
Like breeds like. ⇒ 教訓239
Truth breeds (or begets) hatred. ⇒ 教訓189
BRICK
You cannot make bricks without straw.[Exodus] ⇒ 教訓 78
BRIDGE
Don't cross a bridge till you come to it. ⇒ 教訓 61
Everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over. ⇒ 教訓156
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. ⇒ 教訓156
BRIDLE
It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse. ⇒ 教訓244
BROOM
A new broom sweeps clean. ⇒ 教訓 87
New brooms sweep clean. ⇒ 教訓 87
BROTHER
A good neighbor is better than a brother far off. ⇒ 教訓 4
I am not my brother's keeper. ⇒ 教訓249
BUILD
It is easier to pull down than to build. ⇒ 教訓216
Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week,
marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him
a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man. ⇒ 教訓247・
⇒ 教訓257
BULL
Take the bull by the horns. ⇒ 教訓 96
BULLY
A bully is always a coward. ⇒ 教訓264
BURDEN
A willing burden is no burden. ⇒ 教訓 89
BURN
A (or The) burnt child dreads the fire. ⇒ 教訓183
If you play with fire you get burned. ⇒ 教訓122
Money burns a hole in the pocket. ⇒ 教訓148
The fire which lights us at a distance will burn us when near. ⇒
教訓 68
You cannot burn the candle at both ends. ⇒ 教訓 85
BUSH
A bad bush is better than the open field. ⇒ 教訓 74 TRUE
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ⇒ 教訓 5 TRUE
Don't beat about the bush. ⇒ 教訓196 TRUE
Good wine needs no bush. ⇒ 教訓 28 TRUE
Hide not your light under a bushel.[Matthew] ⇒ 教訓229 TRUE
One beats the bush, and another catches the birds. ⇒ 教訓 2 TRUE
BUSINESS
Everybody's business is nobody's business. ⇒ 教訓133
Punctuality is the soul of business. ⇒ 教訓108
BUSY
For the busy man time passes quickly. ⇒ 教訓109
If you want something done, ask a busy person. ⇒ 教訓 108
(The) Busiest men find the most time. ⇒ 教訓108
BUTTER
Don't quarrel with your bread and butter. ⇒ 教訓156
Fine words butter no parsnips. ⇒ 教訓210
Know which side one's bread is buttered on. ⇒ 教訓156
The bread never falls but on its buttered side. ⇒ 教訓 51
There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.
⇒ 教訓 79
BUTTERFLY
Take not a musket to kill a butterfly. ⇒ 教訓69・ ⇒ 教訓 81
BUYER
Let the buyer beware. ⇒ 教訓 22
BYGONE
Let bygones be bygones. ⇒ 教訓111・ ⇒ 教訓225