ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN PROVERBS (part 2)

The Continuous Tense

1. One's left hand doesn't know what one's right hand is doing.

2. Don't cut the bough you arc standing on.

3. The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping.

4. Fiddle while Rome is burning.

5. Know where one is going.

6. He that has a long nose thinks everybody is speaking of it,

7. Fools will be meddling.
   Match

a) Кто мудрее, тот и хитрее.

b) Не плюй в колодец, напиться придётся.

C) Одним глазом - налево, другим –направо.

d) Пир во время чумы.

e) У дурака нос длинный, а ум короткий.

f) Не всегда говорит, что знает, но всегда знает, что говорить.

g) На воре и шапка горит.

Phrases

I. You are (you'll be) laughing

1. You're telling me

2. Now you are talking

3. As I was saying

4. How are you doing?

5. I'll/we'll be seeing you

6. What are you driving at?

7. What's going on here?

8. Something is eating somebody.

The Perfect Tense

1. Every oak has been an acorn.

1. Drink as you have brewed.

2. The mountain has brought forth a mouse.

3. We know not what is good until we have lost it.

4. When children stand quiet, they have done something ill.

5. A lot of water has run under the bridge.
   Quotations

• I have raised a monument more lasting than bronze. (Horace)

• But what experience and history teach is this, that people and governments have never
  learned anything from history. (G. W. Hegel)

• He who has begun has half done. (Homer)

• I am a part of all that I have met. (A. Tennyson)

• I have found! / I`ve got it! / Eureka! (Archimedes)

• Yon have hit the nail on the head. (Plautus)