Results for “不”

you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)

Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

in absolute secrecy

to have lost consciousness

(proverb) you can't always do as you like / one has to compromise in this world

(idiom) moral standards are much lower now than in former times

a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)

(saying) a person cannot become wealthy without windfall profits (or ill-gotten gains etc), just as a horse cannot get fat without night feed

it's a small world (idiom)

to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family

everything is unfamiliar

(idiom) poor but with great ambitions / poor but principled

man proposes, God disposes (idiom) / one's plans can be derailed by unforeseen events

life is hard enough as it is / don't burst my bubble (Internet slang)

things are not as good as they used to be

unpleasant / objectionable

(idiom) to deal with varying circumstances by adhering to a basic principle

to be prepared for accidents

pitch-dark (idiom)

(lit.) "Why don't they eat meat porridge?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jìn Huì dì] when told that his people lacked rice) (saying) / (fig.) to be oblivious to the suffering of ordinary people

(idiom) what is there against it? (rhetorical question indicating an eagerness or willingness to do sth)

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cannot be used / must not (do sth) / unacceptable

cannot allow (to be present) / cannot admit

arriving early can't beat coming at the right time / perfect timing

He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom). / Be careful not to trust foreigners. / Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!

not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical) / to respond in kind

unidentified origin / no-one knows where it comes from / of dubious background

reluctant to part (idiom) / broken-hearted at having to leave

intolerably vulgar

cannot maintain (sth) / unable to keep / more likely than not / may well

more likely than not / quite possible / on the cards

more likely than not / quite possible / on the cards

biased / prejudiced (idiom)

impossible

lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn

have sth ready just in case / keep sth for possible future use

(lit.) when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (idiom) / (fig.) to be past worrying (about sth)

(slang) it's just the pits! / so unfair! / unbearable

stupid / dazed