Deacon's dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations : a treasury of reference for writers and readers of current literature

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DEACON'S DICTIONARY OF FOREIGN PHRASES

CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS.

DEACON'S

CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS:

of Reference for Writers anb
of Current li

EDITED BY

R. D. B LAC K M A N.

EIGHTH EDITION.

LONDON :

C. W. DEACON & CO.,

CHARING CROSS CHAMBERS, CHARING CROSS, W.C.

LONDON :
C. W. DEACON & Co., DUKE STREET, ADELPHI.

P R EF AC E.

IT has been credibly reported in the press that a
theatrical audience, having before them a drop curtain
representing a Roman villa with the word " SALVE "
prominently displayed, one of them innocently enquired
who was the maker of the salve which he supposed to
be thus advertised. This is an extreme instance of a
kind of ignorance which is very much more common
than is generally admitted.

Anyone who has received an education, however
meagre, however strictly confined to his native tongue,
is credited with a perfect acquaintance with most of the
numerous foreign expressions and classical quotations
which occur now more frequently than ever in current
literature.

It is indeed almost superfluous to point out the fact
that by the side of the movement which has set in
against the so-called waste of time involved in an ex-
haustive study of the classical languages, there never
was a period when more frequent use was made of
expressions and quotations drawn from these sources.
Although the number of Members of Parliament who
can quote off-hand from their Iliad or yEneid, or
Horace, is fewer by far than half-a-century ago, yet we
have quite recently heard an alderman cite Greek ; and
it may be safely affirmed that those who still possess
these accomplishments are not indisposed to display
them.

It is, however, chiefly in the columns of the press

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xii Preface.

and in works of a technical character that numbers of
words and allusions, which are " caviare to the general,"
are to be found. Let us take at random a well-known
evening newspaper. In a single leading article extend-
ing over little more than a column in length the follow-
ing seven terms occur : — Menage, quid pro quo, savoir
faire, in camera, amour propre, pro forma, infra dig. No
better demonstration could be given of the position we
maintain. Even popular works appear under such titles
as Fors Clavigera, Sartor Resartus, Altiora Peto, Vestigia,
Omnia Vanitas, &c. On the other hand the decline in
the study of the Classics has considerably lessened the
number of moderately well-educated persons who might,
with the aid of a dictionary, spell out for themselves the
meaning of such terms, and many of them are probably
in the condition of the youth in the novel, who trans-
lated the motto, " Toujours a Toi," by " All Days to Thee ;"
and of the reporter who took down phonetically the well-
known phrase, " Amiens Plato, amicus Socrates, sed major
veritas," as " I may cuss Plato, I may cuss Socrates, said
Major Veritas." They might even regard au serieux the
late Henry J. Byron's clever absurdity " Honi soit qni
mal y pense" — " On his walk he madly puns."

The difficulty we point out is largely increased
because very many of the terms referred to are of the
nature of idioms, or proverbial expressions, condensed
very frequently to the last degree, and consisting some-
times of a mere catch-word which conveys to the
initiated all that was expressed by the original author
in a long sentence.

Many collections of sayings and quotations in all
languages have been from time to time offered to the
public, but hitherto no single work has appeared having

Preface. xiii

for its two-fold object, to assist the perplexed writer in
finding any expression or quotation which may for the
time escape his memory in its exact form, and on the
other hand to enable the general reader at once to refer
to the meaning of such expressions as constantly meet
his view. These objects have been achieved, in the first
place by making a collection, as complete as possible,
and in the second, by so arranging its contents that by
means of cross references they may be consulted without
trouble or loss of time.

The contents of the work are grouped under the
heads of the various languages from which they are
drawn, and in every case the words and sentences are
accompanied by their English equivalents. There are
comprised : —

LATIN — Words, phrases, mottoes, proverbs, maxims,
quotations, pithy expressions, sententious sayings em-
bodying a moral or practical lesson. The great writers
have been freely drawn upon.

GREEK — Words, phrases, proverbial and other strik-
ing sentences from the poets and prose authors.

FRENCH — Words, phrases, idioms, proverbs, moral
maxims or observations, and a special collection of
original idiomatic sentences, with pertinent examples in
English to exhibit their usage.

ITALIAN — \Vords, phrases, proverbs, quotations of
practical import ; with a very full collection of musical
terms.

SPANISH — Words, phrases, and especially proverbs
and moral reflections.

PORTUGUESE — Chiefly proverbs, or moral sayings.

GERMAN — Wrords, phrases, practical maxims, and
sentences containing important and elevating thoughts.

xiv Preface.

In case of the quotations no pains have been spared
to ensure their correct transcription and translation,
and the meanings of the Foreign Phrases and expres-
sions have in many instances been brought out by
original examples composed expressly for that purpose.
Where the meaning of the Foreign Idiom can be better
so conveyed, ordinary colloquialisms have been em-
ployed. The student of" Comparative Proverbialisms,"
if we may coin such an expression, will find much
material ready to his hand by noting the way in which
the same idea has been expressed by different nations
in their several languages.

In each department competent assistance has been
secured, and the whole work has passed through the
hands of an editor well acquainted with the needs of
the public in such matters.

The unique character of the work will, we feel sure,
secure for it a ready acceptance at the hands of all
readers of current literature. To these it is now offered
with the certainty that it will be frequently appealed to,
and that it cannot fail to materially enhance both their
pleasure and their profit.

CHARING CROSS CHAMBERS,
LONDON, W.C.

CONTENTS.

LATIN. — Words, phrases, mottoes, maxims, quota-
tions, pithy expressions, sententious sayings
embodying a moral or practical lesson. All
drawn freely from the great writers . . 17

GREEK. — Words, phrases, proverbial and other
striking sentences from the poets and prose
authors . . . . . . . 135

FRENCH. — Words, phrases, idioms, proverbs,
moral maxims or observations, and a special
collections of original idiomatic sentences,
with pertinent examples in English to exhibit
their usage . . . . . . .147

ITALIAN. — Words, phrases, proverbs, quotations
of practical import ; with a very full col-
lection of musical terms . . . . .214

SPANISH. — Words, phrases, and especially pro-
verbs and moral reflections .... 246

PORTUGUESE. — Chiefly proverbs, or moral sayings 253

GERMAN. — Words, phrases, practical maxims, and
sentences containing important and elevating
thoughts . . . . . . . 256

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Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Ab integro
Ab intra
Ab irato

Abnormis sapiens
Ab officio et beneficio

Ab origine
Aborigines

Ab ovo usque ad mala
Abscissio infiniti

Absens heres non erit

Absentem laedit, cum ebrio
qui litigat

Absente reo
Absit invidia
Abstulit qui dedit

Abundat dulcibus vitiis
Ab uno disce omnes

Ab urbe condita
A capite ad calcem

Afresh, anew

From within

From an angry man; unfair

Wise by natural good sense

(Suspension) from or (de-
privation) of (a clergy-
man's) office (or official
duties) and benefice

From the origin

Earliest inhabitants of a
country

From the egg to the apples ;
from beginning to end

Cutting off the infinite ; the
exclusion of everything
but the point under con-
sideration

The absent will not be heir.
Out of sight, out of mind

He that enters into dispute
with a man in drink,
wrongs the absent. The
man, not being in his
sober senses, is practi-
cally absent

In the absence of the ac-
cused

All envy apart ; let there
be no ill-will

He who gave has taken
away

He is full of pleasant faults

From one case you may

infer the rest
From the founding of the

city (Rome)
From head to heel

Latin Section.

Accingere se ad opus (or

operi)
Accipe hoc
Ac etiam
Acribus initiis, incurioso

fine
A cruce salus

Actio personalis moritur
cum persona

Actum est

Actum est de republica

Actum ne agas

Actus Dei

A cuspide corona

Ad amussim

Ad aperturam (libri)

Ad arbitrium

Ad Calendas Graecas

Ad captandum
Ad captandum vulgus
Addendum (/>/. addenda)
Adde parum parvo, magnus
acervus erit

Additum

To gird oneself to the work

Accept this

And also

Alert in the beginning,

negligent in the end
Salvation (comes) from the

cross
A personal action dies with

the person ; with either

of the parties

It is all over ; the game's up
It is all over with the

commonwealth
Do not do what is done.

Let well alone
Done in accordance with

God's law
A crown from the spear (a

kingdom won by the

sword)

According to rule
At the opening (of the book) ;

where the book opens
At pleasure, at will
At the Greek Calends, i.e.,

never, as the Greeks had

no Calends
To attract or please
To catch the rabble
Something to be added
Keep adding little to little,

and soon there will be a

great heap. Many littles

make a mickle
Something added ; an ad-
dition

20 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

A deo et rege

Ad eundem (gradum)

Ad extremum

Ad finem

Ad gustum

Ad hominem

Adhuc sub judice lis est
A dicto secundum quid ad
dictum simpliciter

Ad infinitum

Ad inquirendum

Ad instar

Ad interim

Ad internecionem

Adjuvante Deo

Ad libitum
Ad literam

Ad modum
Ad nauseam
Ad patres

Ad perditam securim manu-
brium adjicere

Ad poenitendum properat,
cito qui judicat

From God and the king

To the same degree (rank)

To (the) extremity ; at last

To (or at) the end

To one's taste

To (the interests or passions
of) the man

The case is not yet decided

Confusion of an absolute
statement, with a state-
ment limited in manner,
place, time, or relation

To infinity

For inquiry (a judicial writ)

After the fashion of; like

In the meanwhile

To extermination

God helping ; with God's
help

At pleasure

To the letter ; minutely

exact

After the manner of
To disgust or satiety

(Gathered) to one's fathers ;

dead
To throw the helve after

the hatchet. To give

up all hope
He that comes too quickly

to a decision is fast on

the road to repent
To what damage
To be further considered
To the thing, point, purpose

Latin Section.

21

Adscripti glebae

Adsum

Ad summam

Ad unguem

Ad unum omnes
Ad utrumque paratus
Ad valorem
Adversaria

Adversa virtute repello

Adversis major, par se-
cundis

Ad vivum
Adytum
^Egrescit medendo

^Equam servare mentem

yEquanimiter
^Equitas sequitur legem
JEquo animo

Aerarium
Aere mutare

Aere perennius
Aes alienum
suae

Attached (by law) to the
soil. (Originally a class
of Roman serfs)

I am present. Here !

In short ; in a word

To the nail ; to a T ; to a
nicety

All to a man

Prepared for either event

According to value

Memoranda ; jottings ; a
note-book

By courage I repel ad-
versity

Superior to adversity, equal
to prosperity

To the life

A shrine ; a private cabinet

The remedy is worse than
the disease

To preserve an equal (un-
disturbed) mind

With equanimity

Equity follows the law

With an equal mind;
calmly

The treasury

To buy or sell (lit. to ex-
change by means of
money)

Moreenduringthan bronze;
everlasting

Debt (lit. money belonging
to another)

Of his or her age

22 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Sternum servans sub
pectore vulnus

Aethiopem lavare (or deal-
bare)

A facto ad jus non datur
consequentia

Affirmatim
Afflatus
A fortiori

A fronte praecipitium, a
tergo lupi

Agenda

Age quod agis

Agere cum populo

Agnomen

Agnosco veteris vestigia
flammae

Agnus Dei
Alere flam mam
Alias
Alibi

Alieni appetens

Alii sementem faciunt, alii
metentem

Preserving the wound ever
fresh in her breast ; nou-
rishing the memory of it
secretly ; revengeful

To wash a blackamoor
white. To lose one's
labour

The inference from the fact
to the law is not allowed

In the affirmative

A breathing on ; inspiration

With stronger reason

A precipice in front, wolves
in rear (behind). Be-
tween the devil and the
deep sea

Things(business) to be done

Do what you are doing ;
mind the business you
have in hand

To bring a question before

the people
A surname

I feel the symptoms of the
former flame

The Lamb of God
To feed the flame
Otherwise

Elsewhere ; in another

place
Covetous

Some do the sowing, and

others the mowing. One

beats the bush, and

.another catches the bird

Latin Section.

23

Aliorum medicus ipse ul-
ceribus scates

Aliquando bonus dormitat

Homenis
Aliquis malo sit usus ab illo

Alitur vitium vivitque

tegendo
Aliud et idem

Aliud nihil est agendum

Alluvium
Alma mater

Alter ego
Alter idem
Alter ipse amicus
Alternis horis
Altero marte
Alterum tantum

Altiora peto
Alumni

Alumnus

Alveolus
Amantium irae

The physician of others,
thou thyself art full of
sores. Physician, heal
thyself

Even the good Homer
sometimes nods

Some advantage may come
of that evil

Vice thrives and lives by
concealment

Another, yet the same ; the
same thing in a different
form or light

I have nothing else to do ;
there is no more to be
done

Sediment (from a river)

A foster mother. Gener-
ally applied to a Univer-
sity

Another self

Another exactly similar

A friend is a second self

Every other hour

In a second battle

As much more ; as much
again

I seek higher things, a
higher life

Those who have received
their education at a col-
lege

A nursling; foster-child;
usually applied to one
that has studied at a
university

A small trough or channel

The quarrels of lovers

24 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Amantium irae amoris inte-

gratio est
Amanuensis

A maximis ad minimos
A mensa et toro

Amicitia sine fraude
Amicus certus in re incert a
cernitur

Amicus curia?

Amicus humani generis
Amicus Plato, amicus So-
crates, sed major veritas

Amicus usque ad aras

Amicus vita? solatium

Amor et melle et felle est

fecundissimus
Amor gignit amorem
Amor nummi
Amor patriae
An ambulaturus esset quis-

quam superprunas,atque

pedes ejus non crema-

rentur ?

The quarrelling of lovers is

the renewal of love
A secretary, who writes to

another's dictation
From the greatest to the

least

From table and bed ; from
bed and board

Friendship without deceit

A sure friend is made
manifest in a doubtful
matter ; when one is in
difficulty. A friend in
need is a friend indeed

A friend of the court ; a
person who gives an
opinion or contributes
information on the invi-
tation of the judge,
although not otherwise
engaged in the cause

A friend of the human race

Plato is my friend, Socrates
is my friend, but truth is
greater

A friend even to the altars
— to the last extremity

A friend is the comfort of life

Love is extremely rich both

in honey and in gall
Love begets love
The love of money
Love of one's country
Could anyone walk upon
hot coals, and his feet not
be burned ?

Latin Section.

Anglice

Anguillam cauda tenes

Anguis in herba
Animo et fide
Animo non astutia
Animum rege, qui, nisi

paret, imperat
Animus

Animus furandi
Animus in pedes decidit

Animus lastus bene afficit

vultum
Animus meminisse horret

luctuque refugit

Animus non deficit aequus

Anno aetatis suae

Anno Christi
Anno domini (A.D.)
Anno mundi (A.M.)
Annosa vulpes non capitur
laqueo

Anno urbis conditae(A.U.C.)

Annualia
Annulus
Annus magnus

In English

You hold an eel by the
tail. You are dealing
with an active and slip-
pery person

A snake in the grass

By courage and faith

By valour, not by craft

Rule your passions, or
they will govern you

Mind ; grudge, hostile feel-
ing

Felonious intent

His heart fell down to his
hose, into his boots

A merry heart maketh a
cheerful countenance

My mind shudders at the
recollection and shrinks
from it in grief

A well - balanced (firm,
courageous) mind is not
wanting

In the year of his (or her)
age

In the year of Christ

In the year of (our) Lord

In the year of the world

An old fox is not caught in
a trap. Old birds are
not to be caught with
chaff

In the year from the build-
ing of the city (Rome)

Yearly payments

A ring

A great year

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Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Annus mirabilis

Ante barbam doces senes

Ante bellum

Ante Christum (A.C.)

Ante lucem

Ante meridiem (A.M.)

Ante omnia

Ante tubani trepidat

Ante victoriam ne canas
triumphum

A numine salus

A parte ante
A parte post
A posse ad esse

A posteriori

Appetitus rationi pareat

Apprenticius legis
Appropinquet deprecatio

A priori

A year of wonders (1666).

Name of a poem by

Dryden
You teach old persons

before your beard has

come. Jack Sprat would

teach his granny
Before the war
Before Christ
Before light
Before noon
Before all things

He trembles before the
trumpet (sounds)

Do not celebrate a triumph
before the victory.
Count not your chickens
before they be hatched.
Do not fry your fish be-
fore you catch them.
Catch the bear before
you sell his skin

Salvation (health, bodily, or
spiritual) comes from the
Deity

From the part before

From the part after

From possibility to realiza-
tion

From effect to cause

Let the appetite obey the
reason

A barrister-at-law

Let my complaint come

before you
From cause to effect

Latin Section.

27

Aptat se pugnae

Aqua benedicta

Aquae furtivse suaves sunt

Aquafortis

Aqua regia

Aquarius

Aqua vitae

Aquila non capit muscas

Aranearum telas texere

Arbiter elegantiarum

Arboretum
Arcades ambo

Arcana imperil

Arcanum (pi. arcana)

Arcanum demens detegit
ebrietas

Arcus nimis intensus rum-
pitur

Ardentia verba
Arena

He prepares for the con-
test

Holy water

Stolen waters are sweet
Lit. strong water ; nitric acid

A mixture of nitric and
muriatic acids capable of
meltinggold or platinum;
lit. royal water

The Water-carrier (one of
the signs of the Zodiac)

Water of life ; brandy

An eagle does not catch

flies
To weave spiders' webs, —

elaborate but feeble

arguments
An authority on matters of

elegance, or taste
A plantation

Arcadians both ; birds of a
feather

The mysteries of govern-
ment ; state secrets

A secret

Insane intoxication dis-
closes a secret. In vino
veritas. When wine's in,
wit's out

A bow too much kept on
the stretch breaks. A
bow long bent at last
waxeth weak

Burning, glowing words

Sand ; the field of battle
or contest

28 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Argilla quidvis imitaberis
uda

Argumentum ad absurdum

Argumentum ad crumenam
Argumentum ad hominem

Argumentum ad ignoran-
tiam

Argumentum ad invidiam

Argumentum ad judicium
Argumentum ad miseri-

cordiam

Argumentum ad populum
Argumentum ad verecun-

diam

Argumentum baculinum

Aries

Arma accipere

Arma dare

Armamenta

Arrectis auribus

You may mould soft clay

into any shape you

please. Young minds

are easily impressed
An argument directed to

show the absurdity of an

opponent's case
An argument to the purse ;

an appeal to interest
Argument deriving its force

from the situation of one's

opponent
Argument founded on one's

opponent's ignorance of

facts
An argument appealing to

low passions (lit. envy)
Argument to the judgment
An argument appealing to

one's pity

An appeal to the people
An argument appealing to

the modesty or sense of

decency of one's oppo-
nent
The argument of the staff

or stick ; conviction by

force
The Ram (one of the signs

of the Zodiac)
To be created a Knight

(lit. to receive arms)
To create a person a

Knight (lit. to give arms)
The rigging and tackling

of a ship
With ears erect ; pricking

one's ears ; on the alert

Latin Section.

Ars est celare artem
Ars longa, vita brevis
Arte perire sua

Artes honorabit
Articulus

Artium magister (A.M.)
Asinum tondes

Asinus ad lyram

Assidua stilla saxum ex-

cavat
Assumpsit
At spes non fracta
Audaces (or audentes) for-

tuna juvat
Audacter et sincere
Audi alteram partem
Audire alteram partem
Audita querela
Aula regis
Aura popularis
Aurea mediocritas
Aureo hamo piscari

Aureola

Auribus tenere lupum

Auri sacri fames
Aurora Borealis

It is true art to conceal art
Art is long, life is short
To perish by one's own
machinations ; to be
caught in one's own trap
He will honour the arts
An article, or little joint; a
particular point or mo-
ment
Master of Arts (M.A.)

You are shearing an ass.

Great cry, and little wool
An ass at the lyre ; an

awkward fellow
A steady drop hollows a

stone

He assumed
But hope is not broken
Fortune favours the bold

Boldly and sincerely
Hear the other side
To hear the other side
The complaint being heard
The king's court
The popular breeze
The golden mean
To fish with a golden hook.

Money makes the mare

to go

A circle of gold(-en rays)
To hold a wolf by the ears.

To have caught a Tartar
The accursed thirst for

gold
The Northern Lights

30 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Aut amat, aut odit mulier

Aut Caesar aut nullus

Aut Caesar, aut nihil

Aut nunquam tentes aut
perfice

Aut vincere aut mori
Auxilium ab alto
A verbis ad verbera
A verbis legis non est re-
cedendum

A vinculo matrimonii
Avito viret honore

Basis virtutum constantia

Beatse memoriae
Beati possidentes

Beatus ille qui procul ne-
gotiis

A woman either loves or
hates ; is never neutral
in feeling

Either Caesar or nobody ;
not content with any
place under the highest

Either Caesar, or nothing ;
neck or nothing

Either never try or accomp-
lish. Do not begin any
undertaking that you are
not prepared to carry
out. Having put your
hand to the plough, do
not turn back. "Drink
deep, or taste not, the
Pierian spring "

Victory or death

Help from on high

From words to blows

The words of a statute must
be strictly adhered to (by
the judges in interpreta-
tion)

From the bond of marriage

He flourishes upon ances-
tral honours

Firmness (or steadiness) is
the foundation of the
virtues

Of blessed memory

Happy, fortunate are they
who are in possession.
Possession is nine points
of the law

Happy is the man that is
far removed from busi-
ness

Latin Section.

Bella ! horrida bella !
Bello flagrante
Bellum internecinum
Bellum lethale
Bene est tentare
Beneficium accipere liber-

tatem vendere est
Bene orasse est bene stu-

duisse
Bene qui latuit, bene vixit

Benigno numine

Bibliotheca

Bis dat qui cito dat

Bis peccare in bello non

licet

Bis pueri senes
Bona fide
Bonis nocet, quisquis pe-

percerit malis
Bonus

Bonus dux bonum reddit
comitem

Bovi clitellas imponere

Breve et irreparabile tern-
pus vitae est omnibus
Brevi manu

\\lars ! horrid wars

During hostilities

A war of extermination

A deadly war

It is as well to try

To receive a benefit is to
sell one's liberty

To have prayed well is to
have studied well

He that has lived unknown
has lived well

By the favour of heaven; by
the favour of Providence

A library

He gives twice who gives
in a trice (lit. quickly)

To blunder twice is not
allowed in war

Old men are twice boys

In good faith

He hurts the good who
spares the bad

A consideration for some-
thing received

A good leader makes a
good follower. A good
master makes a good
servant. A good Jack
makes a good Jill

To put a pack saddle on
an ox ; to impose a duty
on one not fit to dis-
charge it

To everybody life is short,
nor can it be recovered

"With the short hand";
off-hand ; summarily

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Brutum fulmen
Cacoethes
Cacoethes carpendi
Cacoethes loquendi
Cacoethes scribendi
Cadit quaestio

Caeca est invidia
Caecum

Caetera desunt
Caeteris paribus
Callida junctura

Calumniare fortiter, et ali-
quid adhaerebit

Calx viva
Cancelli

Cancer

Candida pax
Candide et constanter
Cane pejus et angue

Canes timidi vehementius

latrant
Cantabit vacuus coram

latrone viator

Cantate Domino

A harmless menace

An overwhelming desire

A rage for grumbling

A rage for speaking

An itch for writing

The question falls to the

ground ; there is an end

of the discussion
Envy is blind

A blind (thing) ; a blind

alley ; cul-de-sac
The remainder is wanting
Other things being equal

Skilful or clever joining
(of literary composition) ;
cunning workmanship

Slander stoutly, and some-
thing will stick (to
the person slandered).
Throw plenty of mud,
and some of it will stick

Quick-lime

Lattice work ; the bar (of
tribunals) ; barriers

The Crab (one of the signs
of the Zodiac)

White-robed peace

Candidly and constantly

Worse than a dog or a

snake
Timid dogs bark the

loudest
The penniless wayfarer

will sing before (in the

presence of) the robber
Sing to the Lord

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33

Capias

Capricornus
Caput mortuum
Caret

Caret initio et line

Caries
Carpe diem

Cassis tutissima virtus
Casus belli

Casus foederis
Causa causans

Caveat

Caveat actor

Caveat emptor

Cave canem

Cavendo tutus

Cave tibi cane muto ct aqua

silente
Cedant arma togae

Celerius occidit festinata
maturitas

A writ for arresting a debtor
(lit. " you may take ")

A sign in the Zodiac

Worthless remains

"It wants " ; a mark to
indicate an omission

It wants both beginning
and end

Rottenness ; decay

Enjoy the (present) day ;
seize the opportunity

Virtue is the safest helmet
(protection)

An occasion for war ;
something that causes or
justifies war

The end of the league

The cause that causes (all
other things) ; the Great
First Cause ; the Su-
preme Being

Let him take care,or look out

Let the doer beware

Let the purchaser beware

Beware the dog

Safe through caution

Be on your guard against
a silent dog and still water

Let arms yield to the gown ;
let military power yield
to the civil authority

Forced ripeness falls away
more quickly. Premature
development of one's
powers ends in an early
grave. Soon ripe, soon
rotten

c

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Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Celsae graviore casu deci-
dunt turres

Censor morum
Cerealia

Cerebrum

Cernit omnia Deus vindex

Certamina divitiarum

Certiorari

Certum voto pete finem

Cessante causa, cessat et

effectus
Cessio bonorum

Cicada cicadae cara, for-
micae formica

Cicatrix
Cilium

Circuitus verborum
Circulus in probando

up the
inferior

Lofty towers fall down with
heavier crash. The high-
est tree hath the greatest
fall. Climb not too high,
lest the fall be the greater

Censor of morals

The festival of Ceres (in
honour of the goddess
of agriculture)

The brain

An avenging God marks
all things

Struggles of riches, or after
wealth ; to be richer
than others

A writ to call
records of an
court

Seek to limit (set bounds
to) your desires

Remove the cause, and the
effect also ceases

The giving up of one's
goods (property, to one's
creditors) ; insolvency

Tree-cricket is dear to
tree-cricket, ant to ant.
Like draws to like. Birds
of a feather

A scar

A hair (small and fine) ;
eyelash

A circumlocution ; a round-
about way of expression

A vicious circle (lit. a circle
in the proof ; as by using
the conclusion as an ar-
gument to reach it)

Latin Section.

35

Cito maturum, cito putrid-
urn

Cito rumpes arcurn, semper
si tensum habueris

Civis Romanus sum
Clarior e tenebris
Clarumet venerabilenomen

Cloaca
Cloaca maxima

Coelitus mihi vires
Coelumnonanimum mutant
qui trans mare currunt

Cogito, ergo sum
Cognomen
Cognovit actionem

Collectanea

Colluvies

Colluvies vitiorum

Colossus

Colubrem in sinu fovere

Comes facundus in via pro
vehiculo est

Comitas inter gentes
Comitia

Soon ripe, soon rotten

You will soon break the
bow if you keep it always
on the stretch. He that
runs fast will not run long

I am a Roman citizen

More bright from obscurity

A famous and venerable
name

A drain

The greatest sewer (ox
Rome)

My strength is from heaven

Those who cross the sea
change their climate, not
their minds

I think, therefore I exist

A surname

He (the defendant) has ac-
knowledged the action
(or plaintiff's claim)

A collection of things

Sweepings ; offscourings

A sink of vices

A gigantic statue, or figure

To cherish a serpent in
one's bosom

A road-companion with
plenty to say is as good
as a coach. (Often comes
jncundits, an agreeable
companion)

Courtesy or politeness be-
tween nations

Assemblies (political, in
ancient Rome)

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Comitium

Commune bonum
Commune periculum con-

cordiam parit
Communibus annis
Compendia plerumque sunt

dispendia

Communi consensu
Componere lites
Compos mentis

Conciliatrix
Concio ad clerum
Concordia discors
Conditio sine qua non

Condominium
Conscia mens recti famae
mendacia ridet

Consensus facit legem
Consequitur quodcunque

petit

Consilio et animis
Consilio, non impetu

Conspectus
Constantia et virtute
Consuetude pro lege ser-

vatur
Contra

Contra bonos mores
Copia fandi

Place of assembly — where
comitia were held

A common good

A common danger produces
concord

On the annual average

Short cuts are generally
farthest about

By common consent

To settle disputes

In one's senses; of a sound
mind

A reconciler (female)

A discourse to the clergy

Discordant concord

An indispensable condi-
tion ; lit. a condition
without which (the agree-
ment can) not (be made)

Joint control

A mind conscious of in-
tegrity laughs to scorn the
lies of rumour

Consent makes law

He attains whatever he
attempts

By wisdom and courage

By deliberation, not im-
petuosity

A general view ; synopsis

By constancy and virtue

Custom is observed as law

Against

Against good manners

A great flow of talk

Latin Section.

37

Copia verborum

Coram nobis
Coram non judice

Cornucopia
Corpus delicti

Corpus juris canonici
Corpus juris civilis
Corpus sine pectore
Corrigenda
Cortex

Cor unum, via una
Crambe bis cocta, or repe-
tita

Crassa Minerva

Credat Judseus Apella !

Non ego
Crede Deo
Crede quod habes, et habes

Credenda

Credo quia impossibile est

Crescit amor nummi quan-
tum ipsa pecunia crescit

Crescit eundo

Crescit sub pondere virtus

An abundant supply of

words
Before us
Before one who is not the

judge

The horn of plenty
The whole body or nature

of the offence
The body of the canon law
The body of the civil law
A body without soul
Things to be corrected
Bark ; shell, cover
One heart, one way
Cabbage twice cooked, or

served. To harp on the

same string. The same

old story

(A man of) plain good sense
Let Apella the Jew believe

it ! I will not
Trust to God

Believe you have it, and

you have it
Things to be believed

I believe because it is im-
possible

The love of money increases
as fast as the money it-
self increases. The more
a man has, the more he
desires to have

Jt increases as it goes

Virtue increases under a
weight. Oppression fos-
ters manly determination

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Greta an carbone notandi ?

Cribro aquam haurire

Crimen falsi

Crimen hcsae niajestatis
Crimine abunodisce omnes

Cristae surgunt illi

Crux

Crux criticorum

Crux mihi ancora
Cubile ferarum

Cucullus non facit mona-
chum

Cui bono ?

Cui malo?

Cui multum est piperis
etiam oleribus immiscet

Culpam poenapremit comes

Cum diis volentibus
Cum grano salis

Are they to be marked with

chalk or with charcoal ?

Are they wise men or

fools ?
To draw water in a sieve.

To lose one's pains,

labour
The charge of falsehood,

or perjury
The charge of high treason

From one deed of wicked-
ness learn the character
of the whole people

His crest rises. He is
cock-a-hoop

A cross ; difficult point to
settle

The cross or puzzle of
critics

The cross is my anchor

The den or lair of wild

beasts
The cowl does not make

the monk

Who will be the better for
it ? What good will it do ?

Whom will it harm ?

He that has plenty of pepper
can season his cabbage
well

Punishment presses hard
on the heels of miscon-
duct (crime)

With Heaven's help

With a grain of salt ; with
some reserve

Latin Section.

39

Cum multis aliis, quae nunc
praescribere longum est

Cum privilegio
Cum te sono
Cunctando restituit rem

Curae leves loquuntur, in-

gentes stupent
Cura pii Dis sunt

Curiosa felicitas
Cur ominum fit culpa pan-
corum scelus ?

Currente calamo
Curriculum

Currus bovem trahit

Cutta supellex

Custos

Gustos morum
Custos rotulorum

Dabit Deus his quoque
finem

Da dextram misero

Da locum melioribus

Damnant quod non intelli-
gent

With many others, which

it would be tedious to

mention now
With privilege or- license
I agree with you
By (judicious) delay, he

re-established the cause

(of the state)
Light griefs speak, great

ones are stupefied (dumb)
The good are Heaven's

(peculiar) care
A felicitous tact
Why is the wickedness of

a few laid to the charge

of all ?
WTith a running pen

A race course ; hence a

course of study (at school

or college)
The coach draws the ox ;

to put the cart before the

horse
Small stock of (mental)

furniture
A guardian

The guardian of morals
The custodian of the rolls

God will put an end to
these (troubles) also

Give a lift (lit. the right
hand) to a man in mis-
fortune (or distress)

Give place to your betters

They condemn what they
do not understand

40 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Damnum absque injuria
Dare pondus fumo

Da spatium tenuemque mo-
ram : male cuncta minis-
trat impetus

Data

Davus sum, non CEdipus

De alieno corio liberalis

De auctoritate mihi com-

missa

Debito justitiae
Debitum naturae
De bonis non

Deceptio visus

Decies repetita placebit

Decipimur specie recti

Loss without (legal) injury

To give weight to smoke.
To give importance to
trifles. To make moun-
tains of molehills

Allow time and a short
delay ; all things are
done badly that are done
with too great hurry

Things granted

I am Davus, not CEdipus ;
lam apoor.uninstructed,
plain man, not a genius.
You have applied to the
wrong person — I can't
help you

To cut large thongs from
another man's leather ;
to be very liberal out of
another man's pocket

By the authority intrusted
to me

By debt of justice

The debt of nature ; death

Of the goods not yet ad-
ministered

An illusion of the sight

Though ten times repeated,
it will please. A good
story cannot be too often
told

We are deceived by the
appearance of what is
right ; fair appearances
often mislead; fair ap-
pearances are necessary
to the purposes of decep-
tion

Latin Section,

41

Decipit frons prima multos

Decori decus addit avito

Decus et tutamen
De die in diem

Dediscit animus sero quod
didicit diu

De facto
Deficit

De fumo in flammam

De gustibus non est dispu-
tandum

Dei gratia

Dei memor, gratus amicis

De jure

De lana caprina rixari

Dele

Delectando pariterque mo-
nendo

Delenda est Carthago

Deliberandum est diu, quod
statuendum semel

The first appearance de-
ceives many. We must
eat a peck of salt with
a man before we know
him

He adds glory to the glory
of his ancestors

Honour and protection

From day to day

The mind is long in unlearn-
ing what it has long
learned. Early impres-
sions are not easily ef-
faced

In fact, in reality

Lit. it is wanting ; a defi-
ciency

Out of the frying-pan into
the fire

There is no disputing about
tastes. Everyone to his
liking

By the grace of God

Mindful of my God and
grateful to my friends

By right in law

To wrangle about goat's
wool : that is, nothing at
all

Delete ; blot out

By pleasing while instruct-
ing. Onme tulit, &>c.

Carthage must be destroyed

What can be decided only
once, should be long pon-
dered over

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Deliberat Roma, perit Sa-
guntum

Deliquium
Delirium tremens

De lunatico inquirendo
Deme supercilio nubem

De minimis non curat lex

Demissus vultum

De mortuis nil nisi bonum

Denique

De non apparentibus et de
non existentibus eadem
est ratio

De novo

Deo dignus vindice nodus

Deo duce, ferro comitante
Deo ducente

Rome deliberates, Sagun-
tum perishes. While the
doctors are deliberating
the patient dies

Want (of backbone); pros-
tration

" Trembling delirium," a
brain affection caused by
excessive drinking

A writ to a commission to
inquire whether a person
is or is not a lunatic

Remove the cloud from
your brow ; smooth out
those wrinkles

The law does not regard
trifles

Of dejected countenance

Of the dead nothing but
good (be spoken). Let
nothing be said of the
dead but good

Lastly ; in short

The reasoning is the same
as to things that are
not seen, and things
that do not exist ; what
is not apparent must be
considered as non-exis-
tent ; a logical maxim

Anew

A knot worthy of a god to
unloose it ; a supreme
difficulty

God being my leader, and
my sword my companion

Under the guidance of God

Latin Section.

43

Deo et regi fidelis

Deo favente
Deo gratias
Deo juvante
De omnibus rebus
Deo, non fortuna
Deo, patriae, amicis

Deos obsecro tit te conser-

vent

Deo volente (D.V.)
De profundis
De quibus certus es, loquere

opportune

De quibus ignoras tace

Desideratum (pi. desiderata)

Desipere in loco
Desunt caetera
Deter digniori

Deteriores omnes sumus li-
centia

Detritus

Detur pulcriori

Deum cole, regem serva

Deus est qui regit omnia

Deus est summum bonum

True to (my) God and (my)

sovereign

With God's favour
Thanks to God
God helping
On or about all things
From God, not fortune
For (my) God, (my)

country, and (my) friends
I pray the gods to preserve

you

God willing
Out of the depths
Speak at the right moment

on those subjects that

you are master of
Hold your tongue about

things that you know

nothing about
A thing desired, much

wanted

To unbend on occasion
The remainder is wanting
Let it be given to the

more worthy
We are all the worse for

uncontrolled liberty of

action
Threadbare ; hackneyed ;

odds and ends
Let it be given to the

fairest
Worship God and serve

the king
There is a God who rules

all things
God is the chief good

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Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Deus ex machina

Deus nobis haec otia fecit

Deus undecunque juvat
modo propitius

De vita hominis nulla cunc-
tatio longa est

Dextras dare

Dicenda bona sunt bona
verba die

Dicenda tacendaque calles

Dicto tempore
Dictum

Dictum de dicto
Dictum sapienti sat est

Die

A god out of a machine
(or stage contrivance),
brought on the scene to
unravel some perplexity
that cannot be easily un-
ravelled in a natural
manner

God made us these com-
forts

When God wills, all winds
bring rain. When God
pleases, the most unlikely
matters turn out well for
us

When the life of a man is
at stake, no delay is (too)
long ; in opposition to
the view, " Of wretches
hanged that jurymen
might dine ! " Contrast
also, "WThile the doctors
consult, the patient dies"

To shake hands (lit. to
give right hands)

Good words should be

spoken on a good day.

The better day, the

better deed
Thou clearly knowestwhen

to speak, and when to

keep silent

At the appointed time
A saying, maxim
Report upon hearsay

A word is enough to the

wise man
By day

Latin Section.

45

Dies adimit aegritudinem

hominibus
Dies faustus
Dies infaustus
Dies irae
Dies non (in law)

Difficile est satiram non
scribere

Difficilia quae pulcra

Digitomonstrari, et dicier:
Hie est

Digna canis pabulo

Dignus vindice nodus

Dii laboribus omnia ven-
dunt

Dii majores
Dii minores
Dii penates
Diis aliter visum

Dilationes in lege sunt

odiosae
Diluculo surgere saluberri-

mum est

Time assuages the griefs of
men

A lucky day

An unlucky day

The day of wrath

A day on which judges do
not sit. Juridicus (judi-
ciary, legal) is under-
stood

It is difficult not to write
satire. It is difficult to
refrain from lashing the
follies and sins of society

The best things are the
most difficult to get at.
Chalepa ta kala

To be pointed at by the
finger, and have it said :
" There he is "

The dog (is) worth her
keep. It is an ill dog
that deserves not a crust

A knot (or difficulty) worthy
of (such) an untier (or
rectifier)

The gods sell everything
for labour (exertions).
Without pains, no gains.
No mill, no meal

The greater gods

The lesser gods

Household gods

Heaven willed it otherwise

Delays in law are odious

It is very healthy to rise
at daybreak

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Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Dimidium facti, qui bene

ccepit habet
Diruit, aedificat, mutat

quadrata rotundis

Discenionem facere
Discere docendo
Discipulus est prioris pos-
terior dies

Discum audire quam philo-
sophum

Disjecta membra

Disponendo me, non mu-

tando me
Distrahit animum librorum

multitude
Dives qui fieri vult, et cito

vult fieri

Divide et impera

Divina particula aurae

Docet digitis suis

Doce ut discas

Dolus versatur in gene-

ralibus

Domine, dirige nos
Dominus providebit
Dominus videt plurimum

in rebus suis

Well begun is half done

He pulls down, he builds
up, he changes square
things into round. He is
always capriciously alter-
ing things

To divide the House
To learn through teaching
Each succeeding day is
the scholar of the pre-
ceding. Older and
wiser. Learn from ex-
perience

To listen to a quoit rather
than to a philosopher ; to
prefer trifles to serious
talk

Scattered limbs, or mem-
bers
By displacing me, not by

changing me

A multitude of books dis-
tracts the mind
He that wishes to become
rich, also wishes to be-
come so quickly
Divide and govern
The Divine spirit (in man)
He teaches with his fingers
Teach, that you may learn
Fraud lurks in generalities.

Be definite
O Lord, direct us
The Lord will provide
The master has the keenest
eye in his own affairs

Latin Section.

47

Dominus vobiscum
Domus et placens uxor
Dorsum

Dos est magna parentium
virtus

Dramatis personae

Duabus ancoris fultus
Duabus niti ancoris

Duabus sellis sedere

Ducit amor patriae

t

Dulce domum

Dulce est desipere in loco

Dulce et decorum est pro
patria mori

Dum deliberamus quando
incipiendum, incipere
jam serum fit

Dum fortuna fuit

The Lord be with you

A house and pleasing wife

The back ; ridge (of a hill)

The virtue of parents is a
great dowry

Characters represented in

a drama

j To ride at two anchors. To
^ be in harbour. To have
( two strings to one's bow

To sit in two saddles. To
hold with the hare and
run with the hounds.
To play a double game.
To be on both sides

The love of country leads
me

Sweet homeward (from
Winchester College song
at end of term)

It is sweet to unbend on
proper occasions ; (lit. to
play the fool, to lay aside
one's wisdom and gra-
vity). " A little nonsense
now and then is relished
by the wisest men "

It is sweet and glorious to
die for one's country

While we are considering
when to begin, it is
already becoming (too)
late to begin. While the
doctors deliberate the
patient dies. Too much of
a good thing

As long as fortune lasted

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Dum relego, scripsisse
pudet

Dum spiro, spero
Dum tacent, clamant

Dum vita est, spes est

Dum vitant stulti vitia, in
contraria currunt

Dum vivimus, vivamus

Duo cum faciunt idem,
non est idem

Duo parietes de eadem
fidelia dealbare

Duos qui sequitur lepores,
neutrum capit

Duplici spe uti

Dura mater

Dura menorum ilia

Dura molli saxa cavantur

aqua

Durante bene placito
Durante vita
Durum telum est necessitas

While I am reading (my
compositions)over again,
I am ashamed of having
written them

Whilst I breathe, I hope

Though they keep silence,
they cry aloud. Their
silence speaks loud

While there is life, there

is hope
While striving to shun one

vice, fools run into its

opposite. Fools are ever

in extremes
Whilst we live let us live

When two persons do the
same thing, it is not the
same thing

To whitewash two walls
from one pot. To kill
two birds with one stone.
To do two things at once

He that follows two hares,
catches neither. Too
many irons in the fire

To have a double hope.
To have two strings to
one's bow

The outer membrane cover-
ing the brain
The hard, strong loins

Hard stones are hollowed

by soft water

During (our) good pleasure
During life
Necessity is a hard weapon

Latin Section.

49

Dux femina facti
Dux vitae ratio

Ea fa ma vagatur
Eamus quo ducit fortuna

Ecce homo

Ecce iterum Crispinus !

Ecce signum
E contrario
Editio princeps
Effodiuntur opes irrita-
menta malorum

Ego de caseo loquor, tu de

creta respondes
Ego et rex meus
Eheu ! fugaces labuntur

anni !

Eheu jam satis !
Ejusdem farinae

Ejusdem generis
Elixir vitae

Emeritus

Emollit mores, nee sinit
esse feros

A woman was the leader to
the deed

The guide of life is common
sense (judgment)

That report gets wind

Let us go where fortune
leads

Behold the man

Lo, Crispin again ! Like
clock-work

Behold the sign

On the contrary

The first edition

Riches, which are incen-
tives to evils (or evil
courses), are dug out of
the ground

I talk of cheese, and you of
chalk

My king and I

Alas ! the years glide fleet-
ing by

Alas ! now there is enough

Lit. of the same flour ; of
the same kidney (or
quality)

Of the same kind, or sort

The quintessence of life ; a
cordial or potion that
prolongs life

(A soldier, &c.) that has
served his time (now
usually applied to pro-
fessors)

(Learning)softens manners,
and does not permit men
to be rude

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Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Ens rationis

Eodem collyrio omnibus
mederi

Eo nomine

Epicuri de grege porcus

Episcopatus non est arti-
ficiumtransigendae vitae

Epithalamium

E pluribus unum
Erectos ad sidera tollere
vultus

Ergo

Errare est humanum
Erratum (pi. errata)
Esse quam videri

Est mihi namque domi
pater, est injusta noverca

Est modus in rebus

Est natura hominum novi-

tatis avida
Esto perpetua
Esto quod esse videris
Est pii Deum et patriam

diligere

Est proprium stultitiae ali-
orum cernere vitia, obh-
visci suorum

A creature of reason

To cure all diseases with

the same salve ; to play

the quack
By that name
A hog from the drove of

Epicurus ; a glutton
The office of bishop is not a

mere device for passing

life
Song or poem on one's

marriage
One out of many
To raise their countenances

boldly (lit. erect, upright)

to the stars. To hold up

their heads like free men
Therefore
To err is human
An error
To be rather than to seem

to be
For at home I have a father

and an unjust step-
mother
There is a medium in all

things
Human nature is fond of

novelty

Be thou perpetual
Be what you seem to be
It is the part of a good

man to love (his) God

and his country
It is a peculiarity of fools

to perceive the faults of

others, but to forget their

own

Latin Section.

Estquaedam flere voluptas

Est quoque cunctarum
novitas carissima rerum
Esurient! ne occurras

Et caetera

Et decus et pretium recti

Et hoc genus omne

Edam oblivisci quod scis
interdum expedit

Et nati natorum, et qui
nascentur ab illis

Et nunc et semper
Et sic de similibus
Et tu, Brute

Eurus

Everso succarrere seclo

Ex

Ex abundantia
Ex abusu non arguitur in
usum

Ex acervo
Ex adverse

There is a certain pleasure
in weeping ; a certain
luxury in grief

Novelty is the most de-
lightful of all things.

Do not encounter a hungry
man. Durum telum ne-
cessitas

And the rest ; and so on

Both the ornament and the
reward of uprightness

And every thing of the
kind ; all this sort of
things (persons, &c.)

It is sometimes expedient
to forget (to fail to re-
collect) what you know

And the children of our
children, and those that
shall be born of them

Now and ever

And so of similar things

You, too, Brutus (Brutus
being expected to. act
otherwise)

The east wind

To succour the down-
thrown age, or times. A
saviour of society

From, out of

Out of the abundance

No argument against the
use of a thing can be
drawn from the abuse
of it

Out of a heap

From the opposite side

52 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Ex animo

Exarsere ignes animo

Ex capite

Ex cathedra

Excelsior

Exceptio probat regulam

Exceptis excipiendis

Excerpta

Excitari non hebescere

Ex concesso

Ex curia
Excursus

Ex delicto
Ex dono

Exegi monumentum sere
perennius

Exemplar

Heartily, sincerely

Fires blazed up in (my)
mind

Out of one's head ; from
memory

From the chair (of au-
thority)

Higher; aiming at higher
achievements

The exception proves the

rule
The due exceptions being

made
Extracts
To be spirited, not inactive

From what has been
granted, or admitted (by
an opponent)

Out of court

A sally ; a digression ; a
special disquisition

From the crime

By or from the gift of

I have reared (for myself)
a monument (or me-
morial) more enduring
than bronze. (Said by
Horace of his poetry.)
Not marble, nor the
gilded monuments of
princes, shall outlive this
powerful strain. (Shake-
speare.) Jamque opus
exegi, &c.

Specimen ; illustration ;
pattern

Latin Section.

53

Exemplaria Graeca noc-
turna versate manu., ver-
sate diurna

Study diligently the writ-
ings of the Greeks both
day and night. Give
your days and nights to
the Greek authors

Exempli gratia (e. g. or ex. By way of example

Exemploplusquam ratione
vivimus

Exequatur
Exeunt omnes
Ex facto jus oritur

Ex fide fortis

Ex hoc malo proveniat
aliquod bonum

Ex hypothesi

Exit

Exitus acta probat

Ex longinquo
Ex mero motu

Ex necessitate rei

Ex nihilo nihil fit
Ex officio
Exordium

Ex parte

Ex pede Herculem

We live more by example

than by reason
An official recognition
All retire

The law arises from the
fact ; first settle the fact,
and then the law wil)
apply

Strong through faith
From this evil some gooc
may issue

Accordingto the hypothesis
He goes out

The issue proves deeds.

All's well that end's well.

The evening crowns the

day

From a great distance
Of his own accord ; spon-
taneously
From the necessity of the

case

Nothing conies of nothing
By virtue of his office
A beginning, introduction

(to a poem, speech, &c.)
On one side only
Judge of the whole from a

part

54 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Experientia docet

Experientia stultorum ma-

gistra

Experimentum crucis
Experto crede

Expertus metuit

Explorant adversa viros
Ex post facto

Expressio unius est exclusio
alterius

Ex professo
Ex proposito

Ex quovis ligno non fit
Mercurius

Extemplo
Ex tempore
Extra muros
Ex ungue leonem

Ex uno disce omnes
Ex utraque parte
Ex vi termini

Ex voto

Faber fortunae suae

Experience teaches

Experience is the mistress

of fools
A crucial experiment

Trust one that has tried ;

believe one that has had

experience
Having had experience, he

feared it. A burnt child

dreads the fire
Adversity tries men

From something done after-
wards

The express mention of one
man is the exclusion of
the other

Professedly

By design

A (n image of) Mercury
cannot be made out of
every piece of wood.
You cannot make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear ;
or a horn of a pig's tail

At once

Without premeditation

Beyond the walls

By his claw (one knows)
the lion

From one you may learn all

On both sides

By the meaning or force of
the expression

According to vow

Architect, builder, of one's
own fortune

Latin Section.

55

Facetiae

Facile est inventis addere

Facile princeps

Facilis descensus Averni

Facilis est descensus

Facinus, quos inquinat,
aequat

Facsimile
Factotum

Fac ut sciam
Faex populi

Falsi crimen

Falsum in uno, falsum in

omni
Fama
Famae damna majora quam

quae aestimari possint

Famam extendere factis
Fama nihil est celerius

Fama semper vivit
Fare, fac
Fare quae sentias
Farrago libelli

Jests ; witty and pleasant

sayings
It is easy to add to things

invented ; to improve an

invention
The acknowledged chief ;

an easy first
The descent to the nether

regions is easy
The downhill road is easy

Guilt levels (places on a
level) those whom it con-
taminates

An exact copy ; lit. make
the like

A do-all, a general agent,
servant, or deputy

Tell me

The dregs, scum, of the

people
A charge of forgery

False (or wrong) in one
point, false in every point

Fame, report

Injuries to reputation are
too great to be estimated

To extend one's fame by

deeds
Nothing travels faster than

scandal

Reputation lives fot ever
Speak and act
Speak what you think
The hotch-potch, or mis

cellaneous contents of the

little book

56 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Fasces

Fascia

Fasciculus

Fas est ab hoste doceri

Fata morgana

Fata obstant

Fata volentem ducunt, no-

lentem trahunt
Fatetur facinus, qui judi-

cium fugit

Favete linguis

Fax mentis incendium

gloriae
Fecit

Felicitas habet multos ami-
cos

Feliciter

Felicium multi cognati

Felix qui nihil debet

A bundle (rods and an axe)
carried before the highest
Roman magistrate, and
indicating their power to
scourge and behead
criminals

Bandage, fillet ; wreath
(round a column)

A small bundle, packet,
parcel

It is allowable to learn
even from an enemy

Will o' the Wisp, false
lights

The Fates oppose

The fates lead the willing,

and drag the unwilling
He that shuns judgment

(or trial), acknowledges

his crime
Favour with your tongues ;

be silent
The passion of glory is the

torch of the mind
"He made it"; inscribed

on a picture, with the

artist's name
Happiness has many

friends. In time of

prosperity friends will be

plenty
Happily ; successfully

Rich people have many
relations

Happy he who owes no-
thing. Out of debt, out
of danger

Latin Section.

57

Felix qui potuit rerum cog-
noscere causas

Felo de se

Ferae naturae

Fere libenter homines id,
quod volunt, credunt

Feriunt summos fulmina
montes

Ferrum ferro acuitur
Fessus viator
Festina lente
Festinatio tarda est

Fiat

Fiat experimentum in cor-
pore vili

Fiat justitia ruat coelum

Fiat lux
Fide et amore
Fide et fiducia
Fidei coticula crux

Fidei defensor (F.D.)
Fide, non armis
Fides ante intellectum

Happy he who succeeded

in ascertaining the causes

of things
A suicide (lit. a felon upon

himself)

Of a wild nature
Men are generally ready to

believe what they wish

(to be true)
Thunderbolts strike the

tops of mountains.

Huge winds blow on

high hills
Iron sharpens iron
A weary traveller
Hasten slowly
Haste is slow. The greater

hurry the worse speed.

He who is hasty fishes in

an empty pond
" Let it be done ; " a

peremptory order
Let the experiment be per-
formed on a worthless

body
Let justice be done though

the heavens should fall
Let there be light
By faith and love
By faith and confidence
The cross is the touchstone

of faith

Defender of the Faith
By faith, not by arms
Faith before intellect.

First believe, and then

try to understand (an old

scholastic maxim)

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Fides et justitia
Fides non timet
Fides Punica

Fidus Achates
Fidus et audax
Fieri facias (Fi. Fa.

Filius nullius

Fimbriae

Finem respice

Finis

Finis coronat opus

Fit via vi

Flagrante bello
Flagrante delicto

Flatus
Flectamus genua

Flecti non frangi
Foederis area
Foenum habet in cornu,
longe fuge

Fcetus

Fons et origo
Fons malorum
Foramen

Fidelity and justice
Faith has no fear

Punic (or Carthaginian)

faith ; treachery
A faithful friend
Faithful and intrepid

" Cause it to be done ; " a
writ empowering a sheriff
to levy execution on the
goods of a debtor

A son of nobody ; bastard

Fringe ; moustache

Look to the end

The end

The end crowns the work

Force finds a way (lit. a
way is made by force)

During hostilities

In the commission of the
crime ; redhanded

A breath, breeze ; inflated-
ness

Let us pray (lit. let us bend
(our) knees)

To be bent, not to be broken

The ark of the covenant

He has hay on his horn ;
keep at a safe distance.
Like a dangerous animal ;
as an angry bull

Young ones in the womb ;
offspring ; produce

The source and origin

The fountain, source of evils

An aperture

Latin Section.

59

Formaliter

Formidabilior cervorum
exercitus duce leone
quam leonum cervo

Forsan iniseros meliora
sequentur

Fors Clavigera
Fortem posce animum

Fortes fortuna juvat
Forti et fideli nil difficile

Fortior est qui se quam qui
fortissima moenia vincit

Fortis cadere, cedere non

potest

Fortis et fidelis
Fortiter et honeste
Fortiter geret crucem

Fortiter in re
Fortitudine et prudentia
Fortunae cetera mando

Fortunae films
Fortuna favet fatuis
Fortuna multis dat nimis,
satis nulli

In due form

An army of stags led by a
lion is more formidable
than an army of lions led
by a stag

Perhaps better days may
be in store for the unfor-
tunate

Chance, the key-bearer
Pray for a courageous

mind

Fortune helps the brave
Nothing is difficult to the

faithful and brave
More valiant is he that
conquers himself than he
that takes the most
strongly fortified city.
He that ruleth his spirit
is better than he that
taketh a city
The brave may fall, but

cannot yield
Brave and trustworthy
Bravely and honestly
He will bravely bear the

cross

With firmness in acting
By fortitude and prudence
I commit the rest to For-
tune. I cannot think of
any better precautions
or arrangements
A child of fortune
Fortune favours fools
Fortune gives too much to
many, enough to none

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Fortuna, nimium quern
fovet, stultum facit

\

Fortuna opes auferre, non
animum, potest

Fortuna sequatur

Fortunatos nimium, sua si
bona norint !

Fractum non abjicio ensem
Frangas non flectes
Fraus est celare fraudem

Frons prima decipit
multos

Fronti nulla fides
Fruges consumere nati

Frustra

Frustra laborat qui omni-
bus placere studet

Fugaces labuntur anni

Fugam fecit

Fugiendo in media saepe
ruitur fata

When Fortune caresses a
man too much, she makes
him a fool

Fortune can take away
wealth but not mind (cou-
rage, wisdom) ; cannot
deprive of courage. A
man of strong mind rises
superior to all the
changes of fortune. Wis-
dom conquers fortune

Let fortune follow. Good
luck to the project !

Only too happy were they
but sensible of the bless-
ings they enjoy!

I do not discard a broken
sword

You may break, you can-
not bend me

It is a fraud to conceal a
fraud

The first view deceives
many. Second thoughts
are best

There is no trusting to
appearances; all that
glitters is not gold

Men born to consume the
fruits oi the earth ; no
good but to eat

In vain

He labours in vain who
studies to please all

The years glide fleeting on

He has absconded

By fleeing, men often rush
ri^ht on their fate

Latin Section.

61

Fugit bora
Fuimus

Fuit Ilium
Fulmen brutum
Functus officio
Furiosus furore suo punitur

Furor fit laesa saepius

patientia
Furor iraque mentem prae-

cipitant

Furor loquendi

Furor poeticus

Furor scribendi

Gallus in suo sterquilinio

plurimum potest
Gaudetque viam fecisse

ruina

Gaudet tentamine virtus
Gemini

Genius loci

Genus irritabile vatum

Gloria in excelsis

Gloria Patri

Gloria virtutis umbra

Gradatim

Gradu diverse, via una

The hours fly

We have been ; we are no

more

Troy has been — is no more
Harmless thunderbolt
Having performed his office
A madman is punished by

his own fury
Patience if too often abused

becomes madness
Rage and anger hurry on

the mind headlong.

Angry men seldom want

woe
An euthusiastic eagerness

for speaking
Poetical fire
A mania for writing
Every cock crows loudest

on his own dunghill
And he rejoices to have

made his way by ruin
Virtue rejoices in trial
Twins ; the Twins (a sign of

the Zodiac)

The genius of the place
The irritable race, or tribe,

of poets
Glory (to God) in the

highest

Glory to the Father
Glory is the shadow of

virtue
Step by step ; gradually

The same way by different

steps

62 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Gradus

Gradus ad Parnassum

Graeculus esuriens
Grata superveniet, quae
non sperabitur, hora

Gratia ab officio, quod
mora tardat, abest

Gratia gratiam parit

Gratias agere

Gratior et pulcro veniens
in corpore virtus

Gratis

Gratis dictum
Gravamen

Graviora manent
Graviora quaedam sunt re-
media periculis
Gravis ira regum semper

Grex totus in agris unius
scabie cadit

A step

A step to Parnassus (a
mountain in Greece
sacred to Apollo and the
Muses, and inspiring
poetry and song); a book
of helps towards writing
Greek and Latin verse

A hungry Greekling

The hour that is not hoped
for will be delightful
when it arrives

There are no thanks for a
kindness which has been
delayed. He loseth his
thanks, who promiseth
and delayeth

Kindness begets kindness.
One good turn deserves
another

To give thanks

Even virtue is more fair,
when it appears in a
comely person

For nothing ; free

Mere assertion

The thing complained of;
what weighs most heavily
against the accused

Greater afflictions await us

Some remedies are worse
than the disease

The anger of kings is
always severe

A whole flock perishes in
the fields from the scab of
one sheep. A rotten sheep
infects the whole flock

Latin Section.

Gutta cavat lapidem non
vi sed saepe cadendo

Gutta fortunae prae dolio
sapientiae

Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus ad prose-
quendum

Habeas corpus ad respond-

endum
Habeas corpus ad satis-

iaciendum

Habent sua fata libelli
Habeo te loco parentis

Habet
Habitat

Haec olim meminisse
juvabit

Hae nugas in seria ducent

mala
Haeretlaterilethalis arundo

Has tibi erunt artes

The drop hollows the
stone not by its force but
by constant dropping

A drop of fortune is better
than a butt (cask, hogs-
head) of wisdom. An
ounce of mother-wit is
worth a pound of clergy.
Better to be happy than
wise

" You may have the body ;"
a writ for delivering a
person from imprison-
ment

You may have the body in
order to prosecute

You may have the body

to answer
You may have the body

in satisfaction

Books have their own

destiny
I love or regard you as a

parent
He has it ; he is hit

Abode ; dwelling - place

(chiefly of very inferior

animals)
To remember these things

hereafter will be a

pleasure
These trifles will lead to

serious evils
The deadly reed (shaft,

spear) sticks to his side
Let these be your arts (or

practical aims)

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Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Haereticis non est sejrvanda
fides

Haud facile emergunt
quorum virtutibus obstat
res angusta domi

Haud ignara mali, miseris
succurrere disco

Haud ignota loquor

Haud inscia ac non incauta

futuri

Haud passibus aequis
Helluolibrorum

Herbarium

Heredis fletus sub persona

risus est
Hesperus venit
Heu!
Heu misero mihi ! quanta

de spe decidi

Hiatus

Hiatus valde deflendus

No faith should be kept
with heretics (that is,
with such as claim to
think on religious mat-
ters for themselves, and
refuse the teaching of
the church). (A maxim
of the Roman Catholic
church)

They whose good qualities
are oppressed by poverty
at home rise with diffi-
culty. "Slow rises worth
by poverty depressed "

Not ignorant of misfortune,
I learn to succour the
unfortunate

I speak of well-known
events

Not ignorant nor improvi-
dent as to the future

Not with equal steps

A great reader ; lit. a

glutton (devourer) of

books
A collection of dried plants

systematically arranged
The weeping of an heir is

laughter under a mask
The evening approaches
Alas!

Alas, unhappy me ! from
what great hope have I
fallen

A gap

A gap, or deficiency, much
to be regretted

Latin Section.

Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores
Hie et ubique
Hie finis fandi

Hie jacet

Hie murus aeneus esto, nil

conscire sibi, nulla pal-

lescere culpa

Hie sepultus
Hinc illae lacrimae
Hoc age

Hoc erat in votis
Hoc indicium volo

Hoc opus, hie labor est

Hodie mihi, eras tibi
Hodie, non eras

Homines amplius oculis
quam auribus credunt

Homines nihil agendo dis-
cunt male agere

Homo aeratus

Homo doctus in se semper
divitias habet

More Irish than the Irish
themselves

Here, there, and every-
where

Here was an end to, the
discourse

Here lies

Be this a brazen wall (about
thee), to be conscious of
no guilt, to turn pale at
no charge. Conscious
innocence

Here buried

Hence those tears

Do this

This was in his wishes

I wish this unsaid. I with-
draw the statement (ex-
pression)

This is the labour, this is
the work ; this is the
great difficulty

To-day to me, to-morrow
it belongs to you

To-day not to-morrow ;
without procrastination

Men trust their eyes more
than their ears

By doing nothing, men
learn to do ill. Idleness
is the parent of vice.
Satan finds some mischief
still for idle hands to do

A man of money; a money-
ed man

A learned man always has
riches within himself

66 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Homo duplex

Homo extra est corpus

suum quum irascitur
Homo homini lupus

Homo multarum literarum
Homo sum ; humani nihil
a me alienum puto

Homo trium literarum
Homunculi quanti sunt !

Honesta mors turpi vita

potior
Honesta quam splendida

Honorarium

Honores mutant mores
Honor fidelitatis prae-

mium

Honos alit artes
Horresco referens
Horribile dictu
Hortus siccus

Hos ego versiculos feci,
tulit alter honores

Hostis honori invidia
Hostis humani generis

Humano capiti cervicem
equinam jungere

A double (deceitful) man
A man when angry is be-
side himself
Man is a wolf to (his fellow)

man

A man of many letters
I am a man, and deem no-
thing that relates to man
foreign to my feelings
"A man of three letters"

(i.e. Lat. /«/'), a thief
How great little men are !
How consequential are
(the) manikins!
An honourable death is
preferable to a base life
Respectable things rather

than splendid ones
A present in recognition of

services

Honours alter manners
Honour is the reward of

loyalty

Honour nourishes the arts
I shudderatthe recollection
Horrible to tell
A collection of dried plants

(lit. a dry garden)

I wrote these versicles,

another carried off the

honours (credit of them)

Envy is the bane of honour

An enemy of the human

race

To put a horse's head on a
human body (said of a
painter); out of character

Latin Section.

67

Humanum est errare
Hunc tu caveto
Hypogastrium
Hypotheses non fingo

Ibidem (Ibid.)

Ibi omnis effusus labor

Idem

Idem sonans

Id est (i.e.)
Id genus omne
Idoneus homo

Ignis fatuus

Ignoramus

Ignorantia legis neminem

excusat
Ignoratio elenchi

Ignoscas aliis multa, nil tibi

Ignoscito saepe aliis, mm-

quam tibi
Ignoti nulla cupido

Ignotum per ignotius

Ilium fuit

Ille crucem pretium sceleris
tulit, hie diadema !

To err is human
Beware of this man
The bottom of the belly
I do not frame hypotheses ;

I make no suppositions ;

I concern myself solely

with facts
In the same place
There all the labour was

expended (or wasted)
The same
Sounding alike ; having the

same sound or meaning
That is, that is to say
All persons of that sort
A fit man ; a man of known

ability

Will-o'-the-wisp
An ignorant person
Ignorance of the law ex-
cuses no one
Missing the point (of the

argument)
Forgive many things to

others, nothing to thyself
Forgive others often, thy-
self never
No desire is felt for a thing

unknown
Explaining that which is

unknown by something

more unknown
Troy has existed; such

things have been
One man receives cruci-
fixion as the reward of
his guilt ; another, a

diadem (crown)

68 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Illuminati

Imitatores, servum pecus

I mo pectore

Impedimenta

Imperat aut servit collecta

pecunia cuique
Imperator

Imperium in imperio

Impetus
Impotens sui

Impransus

Imprimatur

Imprimis

Impromptu

Impune

In absentia

In aeternum

In angustiis amici apparent

In arduis virtus

In armis

In articulo

In articulo mortis

In banco

In camera

In capite

In ccelo quies

Enlightened ones ; scholars
Servile herd of imitators

From the lowest breast ;
from the bottom of one's
heart

Things which impede us ;
luggage; baggage

Money is always either
our master or our slave

Military commander ; em-
peror

A government within a
government

Force ; impulse

Without power over one-
self

A man that has not dined;
or is unable to find him-
self a dinner

Let it be printed

In the first place

Without study ; extempo-
raneously

With impunity

In absence

For ever

Adversity trieth friends

Virtue in difficulties

Under arms

In the very article, or act

At the point of death

On the bench (not in
chambers)

In chamber ; in private

In the head ; in chief

There is rest in heaven

Latin Section.

69

Incognita

In commendam

Incubus

In curia

Inde irae

Index expurgatorius

Index rerum

In diem(orlnhoram) vivere

In dies
In dubiis

In eadem conditione

In equilibrio

In esse

Inest sua gratia parvis

In extenso

In extremis

Infandumrenovaredolorem

In flagrante delicto

In fore

In forma pauperis
In foro conscientiae

Infra dignitatem (infra dig.)
In future

Not recognised; in disguise

In trust tor a time

Nightmare ; intolerable
burden

In the court

Hence this anger

A list of prohibited books

A student's note book or
catalogue of reference

To live for the day, or the
hour, from hand to mouth

Every day

In doubtful matters, or cir-
cumstances

In the same condition or
category; under the same
circumstances

Equally balanced

In being

Little things have their
value. Trifles are not to
be despised

At full length

In extreme difficulties

To renew the unutterable
grief

Taken in the act of com-
mitting the offence, red-
handed

In prospective (lit. in about-
to-be)

As a pauper

Before the tribunal of con-
science

Beneath one's dignity

In the future

70 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Ingens telum necessitas

Ingenuas didicisse fideliter
artes, emollit mores, nee
sinit esse feros

Ingratus unus miseris omni-
bus nocet

In gremio legis

In hoc signo spes mea
In hoc signo vinces

In infinite
In initio

Iniquissimam pacem j ustis-
simo bello antefero

Injuriarum remedium est

oblivio
In limine
In loco

In loco parentis
In medias res
In mediis rebus

In medio tutissimus ibis

In memoriam

In mortua manu

In nubibus

Innuendo

In nullum avarus bonus est,
in se pessimus

Necessity is a powerful
weapon. Also Duntin telum

Faithful study of the liberal
arts softens men's man-
ners, and prevents their
being rude (polishes their
minds)

One ungrateful man does
an injury to all the
wretched

In the lap (or bosom) of
the law

In this sign is my hope

In this sign thou shalt
conquer

Perpetually

In the beginning

I prefer the hardest terms
of peace to the most
just war

The best remedy for in-
juries is to forget them

At the threshold

In the place

In the place of a parent

Into the midst of things

Inthe midstof things, in the
very heart of the business

Safety lies in a medium

To the memory of

In a dead hand

In the clouds ; befogged

Hint ; suggestion (lit. by
signifying)

The avaricious man is good
to no one, but he is
worst to himself

Latin Section.

In oculis civium

In omni labore emolumen-

tum est
In otio et negotio probus

In ovo

In pace

In pace leones saepe in

proelio cervi sunt
In partibus infidelium

In perpetuam rei memor-

iam

In perpetuum
In pontificalibus

In posse

In praesenti
In procinctu

In propria persona
In puris naturalibus
Inquinat egregios adjuncta
superbia mores

In re

In rerum natura

Insanire certa ratione mo-
doque

Insanus omnis furere credit
ceteros

In the eyes of citizens ; in

the public eye ; in public

There is profit in all labour

Upright in business and
out of business ; upright
in every relation of life

In the egg

In peace

Lions in peace are often
deers in war

In infidel (i.e. not Roman
Catholic) countries

In perpetual memory of
the affair

In perpetuity ; for ever

In pontificals ; in episco-
pal robes

In a state of possible ex-
istence

At the present time

In readiness (as for battle,
or a journey)

In one's own person

In a state of nudity

The most excellent man-
ners are stained by the
addition of pride

In the matter (or estate) of

In the nature of things

To be mad with definite

reason and measure.

There is method in his

madness
Every madman thinks

everybody else mad

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In secula seculorum
In se magna ruunt
Insignia

In situ

Insomnia

Instanter

In star omnium

In statu pupillari

In statu quo

In statu quo ante helium

In te, Domine, speravi

Integer vitae scelerisque

purus
Integra mens augustissima

possessio

Intemperans adolescentia
effetum corpus tradet
senectuti

In tempore veni ; quod re-
rum omnium est primum

In tenebris

Inter alia

Inter arma leges silent

Interdum etinsanirejucun-
dum est

For ages of ages ; for ever

and ever
Great things rush against

each other
Distinguishing marks or

badges of rank or honour
In the situation
Sleeplessness
Instantly
Like all ; an example to

others

In the position of a pupil
In the former position
In the same state, posture,

or position, as before the

war
In Thee, O Lord, have I

trusted
A man of upright life, and

pure from guilt
Integrity is the most

august (noblest) posses-
sion
An intemperate youth will

hand down to old age a

worn-out body
I came in the nick of time ;

which is the main thing

in all the concerns of life
In darkness
Among other things
In the midst of arms the

laws are silent
It is pleasant to play the

fool (to relax one's

gravity) at times. Dulce

est desipere, &>c.

Latin Section.

73

Interdum stultus bene lo-
quitur
Interea
Inter ignes luna minores

Interim
Inter nos
Inter pocula
Interregnum

In terrorem
Inter se
Intestatus

In toto

I nunc, et versus tecum

meditare canoros
Intra muros
In transitu
Intra verba peccare
In utrumque paratus
In vacuo

Inveniam viam aut faciam

In veritate triumpho
Invictus maneo
In vino veritas

Invita Minerva

Even a fool sometimes

speaks sense
In the meanwhile

(Like) the moon among

the smaller fires (stars)
In the meanwhile
Between ourselves
Between cups ; over a glass
The time between two

reigns

As a warning
Among themselves
Dying without a will ; in-
testate

In the whole ; entirely
Go now, and practise by
thyself melodious verses
Within the walls
In course of transit
To offend in words only
Prepared for either event
In empty space, or in a

vacuum

If I cannot find a way I
will make one. I will
carry my point at all
hazards

I rejoice in truth
I remain unconquered
There is truth in wine ;
truth is told under the in-
fluence of wine. Drunken
folk often speak the truth
Against one's humour, or
inclination ; (lit. Mi-
nerva being unwilling)

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Ipse dixit

Ipsissirna verba
Ipso facto
Ipso jure

Ira furor brevis est
Irani qui vincit, hostem
superat maximum

Irrevocable verbum

Ita est

Ita lex scripta est

Ita sit sane

Ite ita

Iterum

Jacta est alea

Jamque opus exegi, quod
nee Jovis ira, nee ignes,
nee poterit ferrum, nee
edax abolere vetustas

Janitor
Januae mentis

Januis clausis

Jesus, hominum Salvator

(I.H.S.)
Judex damnatur cum no

cens absolvitur

" He (the master himself)
said it ; " an authorita-
tive assertion ; dogma-
tism

The very words

By the fact itself

By the law itself

Anger is brief madness

He that overcomes his
anger, conquers his
greatest enemy

A word that cannot be
called back. The spoken
word cannot be recalled

It is even so

Such is the law

Granted ; let it be so

Go after this manner

Again

The die is cast

I have now completed a
work, which neither the
wrath of Jove, nor fire,
nor sword, nor the tooth
of time, will be able to
destroy

A porter ; door-keeper ;
gate-keeper

Gates of the mind; en-
trances for (or sources of)
knowledge

With closed doors

Jesus, the Saviour of man-
kind

The judge is condemned
when a criminal is
acquitted

Latin Section.

75

Judicium Dei
Juncta juvant

Juniorcs ad labores

Jurarc et fallere numen
Jurare in verba magistri

Jure divino

Jure humano

Jus canonicum

Jus civile

Jus et norma loquendi

Jus gentium
Jus militare
Jus municipale
Jus summum saepe summa
est malitia

Justitiac soror fides
Justitix tenax

Justitia regnorum funda-
mentum

Justitia vacat

Justum et tenacem propo-
siti virum

Labor ipse voluptas
Labor limae

The judgment of God

Things when joined aid

(each other). Union is

strength
Young men for labours ;

the burden is for young

shoulders
To swear and to break

one's oath
To swear to the words of a

master ; to say ditto to

one

By divine law
By human law
Canon law
Civil law

The law and rule of speak-
ing ; ordinary usage

Law of nations

Martial law

Statute law

The rigour of the law is
often the hardest in-
justice

Faith is the sister of justice

Firm in justice

Justice is the foundation
of kingdoms

There is no justice in it

A just man, and steady to
his purpose

Labour itself is pleasure

The labour of the file ;
of polishing (literary)
work

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Labor omnia vincit

Laborum dulce lenimen
Lacuna
Lapis lazuli
Lapsus calami
Lapsus lingua?
Lapsus memoriae
Lares et penates
Lateat scintillula forsan

Latet anguis in herba

Latitat

Laudari a viro laudato

Laudator temporis acti

Laus Deo
Lector benevole
Legibus firmatus
Legimus, ne legantur

Legis constructio non facit
injuriam

Lenior et melior fis, acce-
dente senecta ?

Leo

Leone fortior fides

Labour overcomes all ob-
stacles

Sweet solace of toils
A gap ; deficiency
Sapphire
A slip of the pen
A slip of the tongue
A slip of the memory
Household gods

A small spark may per-
chance lurk unseen

There's a snake in the grass

He is in concealment

To be praised by a man
who is himself praised

A praiser, eulogiser, of
times gone by (of the
past)

Praise be to God

Kind, gentle reader

Established by law

We (reviewers, censors)
read (books) to prevent
their being read (by
others)

The law shall not be inter-
preted so as to cause
wrong

Do you become milder
(more gentle, tolerant)
and better as old age
approaches ?

The Lion (one of the signs
of the Zodiac)

Faith is stronger than a lion

Latin Section.

77

Leonina societas

Leges juraque servamus

Leve fit, quod bene fertur,
onus

Levis est dolor qui capere
consilium potest

Levius fit patientia quid-
quid corrigere est nefas

Lex loci
Lex mercatoria
Lex non scripta
Lex scripta
Lex talionis
Lex terrae
Libertas

Libertas est potestas fa-
ciendi id quod jure liceat

Libertas et natale solum
Liberum arbitrium
Libra

Limae labor
Lingua franca

Lis sub judice
Lite pendente

A partnership in which one
partner takes the lion's
share (i.e., the whole) of
the profits

We keep (the) statutes and
laws ; we maintain our
laws and rights

A load that is cheerfully
borne becomes light

It is light grief that can
take counsel

Whatever cannot be amen-
ded is made easier by
patience. What can't
be cured must be endured

The law of the place

The law merchant

The unwritten law

Statute or written law

The law of retaliation

The law of the land

Liberty

Liberty is the power of
doing that which is per-
mitted by the law

Liberty and my native land

Free will, or choice

The Scales (one of the
signs of the Zodiac)

The labour of the file — in
polishing compositions

The mixed language used
between Europeans and
Orientals in the Levant ;
a broken tongue; a patois

A case not yet decided

During the trial

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Literae humaniores

Litera scripta manet

Literati

Literatim

Litus ama, altum alii tene-

ant
Loco citato (loc. cit.)

Locum tenens
Locus pcenitentiae

Locus sigilli (L.S.)
Locus standi

Longo intervallo
Longum iter est per prae-

cepta, breve et efficax per

exempla

Lucidus ordo
Lucus a non lucendo

Liidere cum sacris
Lumina civitatis

Lupanar

Lupus pilum mutat, non

mentem
Lustrum

Learning of a rather polite
nature, of a more humane
description ; Greek and
Latin classics

The written letter remains

Literary men

Literally ; letter for letter

Love thou the shore, let
others possess the deep

At the place or passage
quoted

A deputy (one holding the
place of another)

Place (opportunity) for re-
pentance

The place of the seal

A place for standing ;
right to appear before a
court

By a long interval

Tedious is the way by
precepts, short and effec-
tual by examples. Ex-
ample is better than
precept

A clear arrangement

A misnomer. Literally,
lucus (a grove) is so called
from there being no light
(lux) in it

To trifle with sacred things

Lights of the state ; re-
markable citizens

A brothel

The wolf changes his coat,

not his disposition
A space of five years

Latin Section.

79

Lusus naturae
Luxuria saevior armr?

Macte virtute
Magister admissionum
Magister artium (M.A.)
Magistratus indicat virum

Magna Charta

Magna civitas, magna

solitude
Magna est veritas et prae-

valebit

Magnas componere lites
Magna servitus est magna

fortuna
Magnas inter opes inops

Magnas nugas
Magni nominis umbra

Magno conatu
Magnos homines virtute
metimur, non fortuna

Magnum bonum
Magnum est vectigal parci-

monia

Magnum opus
Magnus Apollo
Major domo

Major famae sitis est quam

virtutis
Majusculae

A freak of nature

Luxury more terrible (in

its ravages) than war
Proceed in virtue
Master of the ceremonies
Master of arts
The magistrate shows the

man
The great charter (granted

A.D. 1215 by King John)
A great city is a great

desert
Truth is great and it will

prevail

To settle great quarrels
A great fortune is a great

slavery
Poor in the midst of great

wealth

Mighty trifles
The shadow of a great

name

By a great attempt
Great men we estimate by

their virtue (or valour),

not by their success
A great good
Economy is a great revenue

(tax) "
A great work
Great Apollo
Master of the house ; a

steward
The thirst for fame is

greater than for virtue
Capital (letters)

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Mala fide

Male parta male dilabuntur

Mali exempli

Malo mori quam foedari

Malum in se
Malum prohibitum
Malus animus
Malus pudor
Mandamus

Manebant vestigia mori-

entis libertatis
Manes

Manet alta mente repostum
Mania a potu
Manibus pedibusque

Manifesto
Manu forti
Manu propria

Manus haec inimica ty-

rannis
Manus justa nardus

Mare clausum

Mare, ignis, et mulier sunt
tria mala

In bad faith

Ill-got, ill-spent. Ill-gotten
goods seldom prosper

Of a bad example

I had rather die than be
disgraced ; death before
dishonour

Bad in itself

A prohibited evil or wrong

Bad feeling or purpose

False shame

" We command " ; a writ
from a superior court
directing some action on
the part of an inferior
court

There remained the traces
of dying liberty

The shades ; ghost of a
dead person

It (the grievance) remains
deeply seated in the mind

Madness caused by drunk-
enness

With hands and feet ; with
all one's might

Palpably ; clearly

With a strong hand

With one's own hand

This hand is at war with

tyrants
The just hand is as precious

ointment
A closed sea ; a bay

The sea, fire, and woman
are three evils

Latin Section.

81

Mare liberum

Marsupium idem esto nobis

omnibus
Materfamilias

Materialiter
Materia medica
Materiam superabat opus

Maxima debetur puero re-

verentia
Maxima illecebra est

peccandi impunitatis spes

Maximas virtutes jacere
omnesnecesse est, volup-
tate dominante

Maximum

Maximus in minimis

Mea maxima culpa

Mecum sentit
Mediocria firma

Mediocribus esse poetis
non homines, non Di,non
concessere columnae

Medio tutissimus ibis
Me duce, tutus eris

An open sea ; open to all
Let us all have one com-

mon purse
The mother of a family ;

the mistress of a house

to

Materially ; according

the occasion
Substances used in the

healing art
The workmanship was

better than the materials
The greatest reverence

is due to a child
The greatest incitement to

wrongdoing is the hope

of impunity
Where pleasure prevails,

all the highest virtues

must be neglected
The greatest possible
Very great in trifling things
Through my very great

fault ; chiefly through

my fault ; I am most to

blame

He is of my opinion
Moderation is safe. Aurea

mediocritas
Mediocrity is not permitted

in poets, either by the

gods, or by men, or by the

columns (or pillars sup-

porting the booksellers'

shops)
A middle course will be

safest
Under my guidance you

will be safe

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Me judice
Meliores priores

Melior est correptio mani-
festa amore occulto

Memento mori
Meminerunt omnia amantes

Memorabilia

Memoria in aeterna

Memoriter

Mens aequa rebus in arduis

Mens agitat molem

Mensa secunda
Mens conscia recti

Mens invicta manet

Mens praescia futuri
Mens sana in corpore sano

Mens sibi conscia recti
Mentis gratissimus error

Meo periculo
Mero motu

Merum sal

In my opinion

The better, the first ; the
best men, the first place

Open rebuke is better than
secret love

Remember death

Lovers recollect all things ;
have long memories

Things worthy of being
remembered ; reminis-
cences

In everlasting remem-
brance

By memory

An even mind in diffi-
culties

Mind moves the mass ;
mind moves matter

The second course; dessert

A mind conscious of recti-
tude

The mind remains un-
conquered

A foreseeing mind

A sound mind in a sound
body

A mind conscious of up-
rightness

A most pleasing hallucina-
tion

At my own risk

Of his own motion, or free

will
Pure salt ; genuine Attic

wit

Latin Section.

Metiri se quemque suo
modulo ac pede verum
est

Metuenda corolla draconis

Meum et tuum
Mihi cura futuri
Militavi non sine gloria

Minimum

Minor est quam servus
dominus qui servos timet

Minus

Minutiae

Mirabile dictu

Mirabile visu

Mirabilia

Minim

Miserabile vulgus

Miserere nobis

Miseris succurrere disco

Mittimus

Moderata durant
Modicum
Modo et forma
Modus operandi
Mole ruit sua

Mollia tempora
Mollia tempora fandi

It is just that every man
should measure himself
according to his own
measure or standard

The crown (or crest) of a
dragon (or serpent) is to
be feared

Mine and thine

My care is for the future

I served with some dis-
tinction

The smallest possible

A master that fears his ser-
vants is inferior to a
servant

Less ; without

The smallest details

Wonderful to be told

Wonderful to behold

Wonderful things

Wonderful

A wretched crew

Have compassion on us

I learn to succour the
distressed

Warrant of commitment
to prison ; lit. " we send "

Moderate things endure

A small quantity

In manner and form

Manner of working

It is crushed by its own
weight

Golden opportunities

The favourable occasions
for speaking

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Molliter manus imposuit

Momentum

Mon strum horrendum

informe cui lumen

ademptum
Monumentum acre peren-

nius

More majorum

Mores hominum multorum
vidit et urbes

More Socratico
More solito

More suo

Mors janua vitae

Mors omnibus communis

Mors potius macula

Mors ultima linea rerum

est
Mortuo leoni et lepores

insultant
Mos pro lege
Motu proprio
Mulier quae sola cogitat

male cogitat
Multa cadunt inter calicem

supremaque labra
Multa docet fames

Multa petentibus desunt
multa

He laid his hands gently on
Impulse

A monster, horrible, un-
shapely, and eyeless

A monument more enduring
than bronze. See Exegi
monumentum, &c. ; Jam-
que opus exegi, &c.

After the manner of our
ancestors

He saw the manners and
the cities of many peoples.
Far - travelled. Much-
experienced

After the manner of So-
crates

As usual ; in the accus-
tomed manner

After his own manner

Death is the gate of life

Death is common to all

Death rather than disgrace

Death is the utmost limit
of all things

When the lion is dead
even hares insult him

Custom(is accepted) for law

Of his own accord

A woman that thinks by
herself thinks ill

There's many a slip 'twixt
cup and lip

Hunger teaches many
lessons

To those who desire many
things, many things are
wanting

Latin Section.

Multa tuli fecique

Muiti te oderint, siteipsum
ames

Multo ante

Multos in summa pericula
misit venturi timor ipse
mali

Multum in parvo

Mundus vult decipi, et de-
cipiatur

Murus aeneus conscientia

sana

Mutare vel timere sperno
Mutatis mutandis

Mutato nomine

Mutato nomine de te fabula
narratur

Nam tua res agitur paries
dum proximus ardet

Natale solum

Xaturam expelles furca,
tamen usque recurret

Natus ad gloriam

Nebulae

Nee bella, nee puella

Ne cede malis

Much have I suffered and
done

Let many people hate you,
provided you love your-
self

Long before

The very apprehension of
an impending evil has
placed many in the
greatest peril

Much in little ; a great deal
in a small compass

The world wishes to be de-
ceived, and let it be
deceived

A sound conscience is a
wall of brass

I scorn to change or to fear

The necessary changes

being made
Under a changed name

Change the name, and the
story applies to yourself

For your interests are con-
cerned when your neigh-
bour's house is on fire

Natal soil

You may drive out nature
with a fork, yet it will
still come back ; nature
will be nature still

Born to glory

Mists ; cloudlets

Neither beautiful nor young

(lit. nor a girl)
Yield not to misfortunes

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Necesse est ut multos time-
at, quern multi timent

Necessitas non habet legem
Nee mora, nee requies
Nee pluribus impar ,
Nee prece nee pretio

Nee quaerere nee spernere

honorem
Nee scire fas est omnia

Nee semper feriet quod-
cunque minabitur arcus

Nee temere nee ttmide

Nee timeo, nee sperno
Ne exeat
Nefasti dies

Ne front! crede

Ne glorieris de die crastino,
quia nescis quid pari-
turus sit dies

Nemine contradicente(nem.

con.)
Nemine dissentiente (nein.

diss.)
Nemo malus felix

He whom many fear, must
fear many

Necessity has no law

No rest or repose

A match for two (or more)

Neither by entreaty nor by
bribe

Neither to seek nor to
despise honour

It is not permitted to know-
all things

The arrow (lit. bow) will
not always hit that which
it threatens (is aimed at).
The best laid schemes o'
mice and men gang aft
agley

Neither rashly nor timo-
rously

I neither fear nor despise

Let him not depart

Unlucky days ; days on
which the courts do not
sit

Do not trust to appearance

Boast not thyself of to-
morrow, for thoukno west
not what a day may bring
forth

Without opposition ; no
one contradicting

No one disagreeing

No bad man is happy.
There is no peace unto
the wicked

Latin Section.

Nemo me impune lacesset

Nemo mortalium omnibus

horis sapit
Nemo nimium beatus est

Nemo repente fuit turpissi-

mus
Nemo solus sapit

Ne nimium
Ne obliviscaris
Ne plus supra

Ne plus ultra

Ne puero gladium

Neque semper arcum tendit
Apollo

Nequicquam sapit, qui sibi
non sapit

Ne quid detrimenti respub-

lica capiat
Ne quid nimis
Nescia mens hominum fati

sortisque futurae

Nescis, mi fili, quantula
sapientia gubernatur
mundus !

Nescit vox missa reverti

No one will attack me with
impunity

No mortal is wise at all
times

There is no man over
happy

No man ever became a
villain at once

No one has a monopoly of
wisdom

(Do) nothing in excess

Do not forget

Nothing above (one) ; the
highest type ; the chief
example

Nothing beyond ; the
greatest extent

Do not put a sword in a
boy's hand

Nor does Apollo always
bend his bow. Due re-
laxation is necessary

To no purpose is he wise
w,ho is not wise for him-
self (to his own benefit)

(To take care) that the
state suffer no harm

Go not too far

The mind of man is
ignorant of fate and
future destiny. We know
not what a day may
bring forth

Thou knowest not, my son,
with how little wisdom
the world is governed !

The spoken word cannot
be recalled

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Ne sus Minervam

Ne sutor ultra crepidam

Ne vile velis

Nictat oculis suis

Nidus

Nihil ad me attinet

Nihil ad rem

Nihil agas quod non prosit

Nihil debet

Nihil eripit fortuna nisi
quod et dedit

Nihil est ab omni parte
beatum

Nihil quod tetigit non

ornavit
Nihil sub sole novi

Nil

Nil actum reputans, dum
quid superesset agendum

Nil admirari

Nil conscire sibi nulla
pallescere culpa

Let not a pig (presume to
teach) Minerva (the
Goddess of Wisdom).
Teach not thy granny to
suck eggs

Let the shoemaker stick to
his last. Let everyone
mind his own business

Incline to nothing base

He winks with his eyes

A nest

It is nothing to me

Nothing to the point

Do nothing but what may
turn to good account

He owes nothing ; a plea
denying a debt

Fortune takes from us
nothing but what she
has given us

There is no situation (in
life) that is in every re-
spect happy

He touched nothing which
he did not adorn

Nothing new under the sun

Nothing

Thinking that nothing was
done while anything re-
mained to be done.
Leaving no stone un-
turned

To wonder at nothing
To be conscious of wrong,
to turn pale at no accu-
sation

Latin Section.

89

Nil desperandum !
Nil dicit

Nil falsi audeat, nil verinon
audeat dicere

Nil fuit unquam sic impar

sibi
Nil mortalibus ardui est

Nil similius insane quam
ebrius

Nil sine Deo

Nimium ne crede colori

Nimium premendo litus

Nisi Dominus frustra
Nisi prius

Nitor in adversum
Nocet differre paratis

Nocte (or noctu)

Never despair !
He says nothing

Let him (a historian, for
example) not dare to
state anything that is
false, or to refrain from
stating anything that is
true

Nothing was ever so un-
like itself

Nothing is difficult to
mortals

Nothing is more like a
madman than a drunken
man

Nothing without God

Trust not too much to ap-
pearances ; a blush may
cover deceit

By hugging the shore too
closely ; keeping out of
danger

Unless the Lord (help us),
(our labour'is) in vain

Lit. unless before ; a writ
by which the sheriff is to
bring up a jury on a cer-
tain day " unless before "
that day the judges go
into the counties to hold
assizes

I strive against opposition

It is prejudicial to those
that are ready, to delay.
Strike while the iron is
hot

By night

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Noctes coenaeque Deum

Nocte silenti

Nocturna versate manu,
versate diurna

Nolens volens
Noli irritare leones
Noli me tangere
Nolle prosequi

Nolo episcopari

Nolumus leges Angliae
mutari

Nominatim

Nominis umbra

Non aquanon ignipluribus

locis utimur quam ami-

citia

Non assumpsit
Non causa, pro causa

Nou compos mentis
Non conscire sibi
Non constat

Non cuivis homini contingit
adire Corinthum ,

Non ego ventosae venor
suffragia plebis

Nights and feasts of the
gods

In the dead of night

Give your days and nights
to the study of these
authors

Whether he will or not

Do not rouse the lions

Do not touch me

To be unwilling to prose-
cute ; stoppage of a suit
by the plaintiff

I do not wish to be made
a bishop

We are unwilling that the
laws of England be
changed

By name ; by special re-
ference

The shadow of a name

We do not use fire or water
in more places than we
do friendship

He did not assume

An inductive fallacy in
which the cause assigned
has no relation to the
effect

Not of sound mind

To be conscious of no fault

It is not evident, agreed,
settled

It is not every man's for-
tune to go to Corinth

I do not hunt for the votes
of the common people,
which veer with every
wind

Latin Section.

Non equidem invideo,

miror magis
Non est ad astra mollis

a terris via
Non est alter
Non est inventus
Non est jocus esse malig-

num
Non est tanti

Non est vivere, sed valere,
vita

Non generant aquilae co-

lumbas
Non haec in fcedera

Non ignara mali, miseris
succurrere disco

Non libet
Non licet
Non liquet

Non magni pendis quia
contigit

Non nobis, Domine

Non nobis solum sed omni-
bus

Non nobis solum sed toti
mundo nati

Non nostrum tantas com-

ponere lites
Non numero hasc judi-

cantur sed pondere

Indeed I do not envy, I
am surprised rather

There is no easy path from
the earth to the stars

There is no other

He has not been found

There is no fun in ill-
natured remarks

It is not worth while ; not
worth the trouble

Life is not life without the
enjoyment of health.
" For life is only life
when blest with health "

Eagles do not bring forth
doves

Not into such leagues as
these

Not ignorant myself of mis-
fortune,! learn to succour
the distressed

It does not please me

It is not lawful

(The case) is not clear

You do not value it highly
because it came inci-
dentally

Not to us, O Lord

Not for ourselves only, but
for all

Born not for ourselves
only, but for the whole
world

It is not our duty to adjust
such high disputes

These things are estimated
not by number but by
weight

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Non obstante

Non omnia possumus omnes

Non omnis error stultitia

est dicenda
Non omnis moriar
Non possumus
Non quo, sed quomodo

Non res, sed spes erat

Non revertar inultus
Non semper erit aestas
Non sequitur

Non sibi, sed omnibus
Non si male nunc et olim
sic erit

Non solum — sed etiam
Non sum dignus
Non sum qualis eram
Non tali auxilio, nee defen-
soribus istis tempus eget

Non unique prematur in
annum

Non ut diu vivamus cur-
andum est, sed ut satis

Notwithstanding

We cannot all of us do all
things

Not every mistake is to be
stigmatised as folly

I shall not wholly die

We cannot

Not by whom, but in what
manner

Not performance, but hope.
He was a most promising
man, though he did not
accomplish anything
great

I shall not return unavenged

It is not always May

It does not follow. A form
of fallacy in which the
conclusion states what
cannot be justly inferred
from the premises

Not for oneself, but for all

When things are at their
worst they begin to
mend. It is a long lane
that has no turning

Not only — but also

I am not worthy

I am not what I was

The juncture needs not
such help or such de-
fenders as you offer

Let your compositions be
kept in your desk for nine
years

We should be anxious not
to live long but to live
enough

Latin Section.

93

Non vi, sed saepe cadendo
Non vultus, non color

Nosce teipsum
Noscitur a sociis

Nos patriam fugimus, nos
dulcia linquimus arva

Nosse haec omnia salus est

adolescentulis
Nostro marte

Nota bene (N.B.)

Novos amicos dum paras,

veteres cole
Novus homo
Xovus rex, nova lex
Nuces relinquere

Nucleus

Nudis verbis
Nudum pactum
Nugae canorae
Nugis addere pondus
Nugis armatus

Nulla aconita bibuntur

fictilibus
Nulla bona
Nulla dies sine linea

Nulla est sincera voluptas

Not by force, but by fre-
quent falling

Neither the countenance
nor the colour ; nothing
like it

Know thyself

He is known by his asso-
ciates

We are fleeing from our
country, we are leaving
our pleasant fields

It is good for young men
to know all these things

By our army, or soldiers,
or valour

Mark well

Whilst you seek newfriends,
make much of the old ones

A new man

New kings make new laws

To abandon one's nuts ; to
cease to be a child

Kernel (of a nut ; or of any
matter)

In plain words

An invalid agreement

Melodious trifles

To give weight to trifles

Armed with trifles

No poison is drunk out of
earthenware

No goods, effects, assets

No day without a line —
without some work ac-
complished

No joy is unalloyed

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Nulla falsa doctrina est quae
non permisceat aliquid
veritatis

Nulla fere causa est, in qua
non femina litem moverit

Nulla pallescere culpa

Nulli jactantius maerent,
quam qui maxime
laetantur

Nullis amor est medicabilis

herbis
Nulli secundus

Nullius addictus jurare in
verba magistri

Nullius films

Nullo modo

Nullum imperium tutum,
nisi benevolentia muni-
turn

Nullum magnum ingenium
sine mixtura dementias
fuit

Nullum magnum malum
quod extremum est

Nullum medicamentum
est idem omnibus

Nullus dolor est quern non
longinquitas temporis
minuat atque molliat

There is no false doctrine
but mixes up with itself
some element of truth

There are hardly any dis-
putes but a woman has
been at the bottom of
them

Not to turn pale on any
imputation of guilt

None mourn with more
show of sorrow than
those who are especially
delighted

Love is not to be cured by
any herbs

Second to none ; rirst
fiddle

Not bound to swear to the
opinions of any master ;
wholly independent

Nobody's child; an illegiti-
mate son

In no wise ; by no means

No government is safe un-
less fortified by good
will

There was never a great
genius without a touch
of madness

No evil which is last can
be great

No medicine is the same
for all persons. One
man's meat is another
man's poison

There is no grief that
length of time does not
lessen and assuage

Latin Section.

95

Nunc aut nunquam
Xunc scio quid sit amor
Nunquam ad liquidum

fama perducitur
Nunquam dormio

Nunquam minus solus,

quam cum solus
Nunquam non paratus

Nunquam potest non esse
virtuti locus

Nusquam tuta fides

Obiit

Obiter dictum

Obscuris vera involvens

Obscurum per obscurius

Observanda
Obsta principiis
Obstupui, steteruntque

comas, et vox faucibus

haesit

Occasio furem facit
Occasionem cognosce

Occupet extremum scabies
Occurrent nubes
Oculis subjecta fidelibus

Now or never

Now I know what love is

Report never shows things

in their true light
I never sleep ; I am always

wide awake
Never less alone than

when alone
Never unprepared ; aye

ready

There must always be
room for virtue ; virtue
can never be at a dis-
count
Our confidence is nowhere

safe

He or she died
A thing said by the way
Involving the truth in ob-
scure terms

(To explain) one obscure
thing by something still
more obscure. The
blind leading the blind
Things to be observed
Resist the first beginnings
I was astounded, my hair
stood on end, and my
voice clave to my throat
Opportunity makes the thief
Know your opportunity.
Strike while the iron is
hot

Plague take the hindmost
Clouds will intervene
Under faithful eyes ; fully
and carefully examined.
Plain as a pikestaff

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Oderint dum metuant

Oderunt peccare boni,

virtutis amore
Odi profanum vulgus
Odium theologicum
Officina gentium

Ohe ! jam satis

O imitatores, servum pecus

Oleum addere camino

Olim

Olim meminisse juvabit

Omne ignoturn pro mag-

nifico
Omne in prsecipiti vitium

stetit

Omnem crede diem tibi
diluxisse supremum

Omne nimium vertitur in
vitium

Omnes
Omne scibile

Omnes eodem cogimur

Omne solum forti patria est

Let them hate provided
they fear

Good men hate to sin, out
of very love of virtue

I loathe the profane vulgar

The hatred of divines

The workshop of the
nations

Oh ! there is now enough

O servile herd of imitators

To pour oil upon the fire ;
to add fuel to the flame

Formerly

It will be pleasant to re-
member these things in
after times

Everything unknown is re-
garded as magnificent

Every kind of vice has
reached its highest de-
velopment

Believe that each day that
dawns on you is your
last

Everything in excess be-
comes a vice. There may
be too much of a good
thing

All persons

Everything that may be
known; everythingknow-
able

We are all driven towards
the same quarter (death-
wards)

Every soil is the fatherland
of a brave man

Latin Section.

97

Omnes sint unum
Omne tulit punctum, qui
miscuit utile dulci

Omnia ad Dei gloriam
Omnia bona bonis

Omnia fert aetas, animum
quoque

Omnia inconsulto impetu
ccepta, initiis valida,
spatio languescunt

Omnia mala exempla bonis
principiis orta sunt

Omnia mea mecum porto

Omnia non pariter sunt

omnibus apta
Omnia novit Graeculus

esuriens

Omnia praeclara sunt rara
Omnia suspendens naso
Omnia tuta timens

Omnia vanitas
Omnia vincit amor
Omnia vincit labor

Omnibus hoc vitium est
Omnibus notum tonsoribus

Let all be one (united)
He gained every vote, who

blended the useful with

the agreeable
All things are for the glory

of God
All things are good with

good men
Time bears away all things,

and the powers of the

mind among them
All things commenced with

inconsiderate haste, al-
though vigorous at the

outset, droop after a time
All bad precedents have

taken their origin from

good beginnings
I carry all my property

with me
All things are not alike

suited for all men
A starving Greekling

knows everything. Will

undertake any office
All excellent things are

rare
One who turns up his nose

at everything
Fearing all things, even

such as are safe
All is vanity

Love conquers all things
Labour overcomes all

things

All have this vice
Every barber (gossip1

knows that

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Omni exceptione major
Omnium consensu capax
imperii, nisi imperasset

Superior to all exception
Everybody would have
considered him capable
of governing, if he had
never governed
A miscellaneous collection

Omnium gatherum

[Gatherum is latinized humorously from " gather " ;
it is not a proper Latin word]

Onus

Onus probandi

Ope et consilio

Operae pretium est

Operculum

Opinionum commenta delet

dies, naturae judicia con-

firmat

Opprobrium medicorum

Optat ephippia bos piger,
optat arare caballus

Optimates

Optimum est pati quod

emendare non possis
Optimum obsonium labor
Opum furiosa cupido

Opusculum
Ora et labora
Orandum est ut sit mens
sana in corpore sano

A burden

The burden of proving

By help and counsel

It is worth while

A cover ; lid

Time wipes out the com-
ments of opinion, but it
confirms the judgments
of nature

The disgrace of the doctors :
said of any disease for
which there has not been
found any cure

The lazy ox wishes for
horse-trappings, and the
horse wishes to plough.
We are dissatisfied with
what we have, and long
for what we have not

Persons of the first rank

What cannot be cured
must be endured

Work is the best relish

The ungovernable lust for
riches

A little work (book)

Pray and work

We should pray for a
sound mind in a sound
body

Latin Section.

99

Ora pro nobis
Orationem concludere
Orator fit, poeta nascitur

Ore rotundo

Ore tenus
Origo mali
O ! si sic omnia

O tempora ! O mores !

Otium cum dignitate
Otiuni sine dignitate
Ovem lupo committere

Pabulum

Pace

Pace et bello

Pacta conventa

Palaestra

Palladium

Pallida mors

Pallidus ira

Palmam qui meruit ferat

Pray for us

To end a speech

The orator is made such by
education, but a poet
must be born such

With a round mouth ;
volubly ; grandly

From the mouth

The origin of evil

Oh! that he had always
done or spoken thus

Oh the times ! Oh the
manners !

Ease with dignity

Ease without dignity

To set the wolf to guard
the sheep ; or, the fox to
keep the geese

Fodder ; matter for study,
&c.

With the favour, leave of

In peace and in war

Conditions agreed upon

Gymnasium ; place for
exercise in wrestling, &c.

Protection ; support ; an
image of Pallas Athene,
carefully preserved at
Troy, the safety of the
city being supposed to
depend on it

Pale death

Pale with rage

Let him who has won the
palm bear it

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Panacea
Pandectae

Par

Parendo imperat

Pares cum paribus facil-
lime congregantur

Pari passu

Paritur pax bello

Par negotiis neque supra

Par nobile fratrum

Par oneri

Par pari refero

Pars minima sui

Pars pro toto
Parta tueri debent

Parthis mendacior

Particeps criminis

Parturiunt montes, nasce-
tur ridiculus mus

Parva componere magnis
Parva leves capiuntanimas

A cure for every complaint
The Pandects (or Digest),

a collection of Roman

laws from the writings of

Roman jurists, made by

order of Justinian
Equal ; the condition of

equality ; equal value
By obeying, she (a wife)

rules (her husband)
Like draws 'to like. Birds

of a feather flock to-*

together
With an equal pace ; side

by side

Peace is produced by war
Neither above nor below
A noble pair of brothers
Equal to the burden
I return like for like

The smallest part of the

man or thing
Part for the whole

What is gained ought to be

maintained
More lying than Parthians ;

a consummate liar
An accomplice

The mountains are in
labour, a ridiculous
mouse will be born.
Great cry and little wool

To compare little things
with great

Little minds are caught
with trifles

Latin Section.

101

Parvum parva decent

Passim
Paterfamilias

Pater noster
Pater patriae
Patres conscripti

Patria cara,carior libertas

Patriae fumus igne alieno
luculentior

Patriae infelici fidelis
Patris est filius

Faucis carior est fides
quam pecunia

Paucis verbis
Paulo post futurum

Pax in bello
Pax potior bello

Little things suit little
minds ; humble things
become humble men.
The man in a low station
never makes himself ridi-
culous but when his
efforts exceed his means

Everywhere

The father of a family ; the

head of a house
Our Father
Father of his country
Conscript fathers(or, rather,

fathers and conscripti or

elected peers) ; Roman

senators
My country is dear, but

liberty is dearer
The smoke of one's own

country is brighter than

a foreign fire
Faithful to an unhappy

country
Like father, like son (lit.

he is his father's son)
To few persons is loyalty

dearer than money ;

most men have their

price
In few words ; in brief

A little past the future ; a
name given by Latin
grammarians to the
future perfect tense

Peace in war

Peace is more powerful
than war

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Pax vel injusta utilior est
quamjustissimumbellum

Pax vobiscum
Peccavi

Pecuniam in loco negligere
maximum est lucrum

Penates
Pendente lite
Penetralia
Penetralia mentis

Pennas incidere alicui

Per acuta belli

Per angusta ad augusta

Per annum

Per capita

Per centum

Per contra

PerDeumet ferrum obtinui

Per diem

Peream si falsa loquor

Pereant amici, dum una
inimici intercidant

Per fas et nefas

Perfervidum ingenium

Peace even on hard terms
is better than the justest
war

Peace be with you

I have sinned

To spend money freely
(despise money) on pro-
per occasions is the
greatest gain

(Roman) household gods

Whilst the suit is pending

Secret rooms or recesses

The inmost recesses of the
mind; the heart of hearts

To clip one's wings ; to
take one down a peg

Through the dangers of
war

Through difficulties to
honours

By the year

By the head

By the hundred

On the contrary

By the help of God and
my sword have I won it

By the day

May I die if I speak what is
false

Let our friends perish, pro-
vided that our enemies
fall with them

Through right and wrong;
justly or unjustly ;
through thick and thin ;
by every means

A very intense disposition

Latin Section.

103

Periculosae plenum opus

aleae

Periculum in mora
Periissem ni per iissem

Perimus licitis
Per incuriam

Per mare per terras
Permitte divis caetera

Per multum risum poteris
cognoscere stultum

Per saltum
Per se
Persona ingrata

Persia atque obdura
Per vias rectas
Pervigilium

Pessimum genus inimi-

corum laudantes
Petitio principii

Pia fraus

Pila est mea
Piscem natare doces

A work full of dangerous

hazard

Danger in delay
I should have died if I had

not succeeded (lit. gone

through with it)
We perish by what is

lawful
Through heedlessness, or

negligence

Through sea and land
Leave the rest to the gods

By his much laughter, you
will be able to recognise
a fool. The loud laugh
speaks the vacant mind

By a leap or jump

By itself

An objectionable person ;

a person disliked (by

some one)

Hold hard ; never say die
By straight roads
Watching all night

Flatterers are the worst
kind of enemies

Begging the question ; the
logical fallacy of assum-
ingwhat has to be proved

A pious fraud ; fraud com-
mitted for a good object ;
a justifiable injustice

My ball ! I've won

You teach a fish to swim.
To carry coals to New-
castle

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Pisces
Placebo
Placet
Plebs

Pleno jure
Plenum

Plerunique gratae divitibus

vices
Plexus

Ploratur lacrimis amissa

pecunia veris
Plura faciunt homines e

consuetudine, quam e

ratione
Plures crapula quam gla-

dius
Plus
Plus dolet quam necesse

est, qui ante dolet quam

necesse est
Plus ratio quam vis caeca

valere solet

Plus salis quam sumptus

Plus vident oculi quam

oculus
Poeta nascitur, non fit

Polliceri montes auri

The Fishes (one of the signs
of the Zodiac)

" I will please ; " blarney ;
soft sawder

" It pleases ; " decree ; or-
dinance ; official order

The common people ; the
plebeians

With full authority

" Full " ; substance ; ma-
terial ; substantiality

Changes are generally
agreeable to the wealthy

Net-work; interwoven
threads ; a system of
meshes

The loss of money is
lamented with real tears

Men do more actions from
habit than on reflection

The belly (gluttony) kills
more than the sword

More

He grieves more than is
needful, who grieves be-
fore it is needful

Common sense can usually
effect more than blind
force

More relish than cost

Two eyes see better than

one
The poet is born, not

made
To make extravagant

promises

Latin Section.

105

Pons asinorum

Porro unum est necessa-

rium
Posse comitatus

Posse videor

Possunt quia posse videntur

Post

Post bellum auxilium

Postea

Post factum nullum con-
silium

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

Post meridiem (P.M.)

Post mortem

Post nubila Phoebus

Post obit

Post prcelia praemia

The asses' bridge ; applied
to the fifth proposition
in Euclid

One thing further is neces-
sary

The power of the county.
A posse of police is a body
of police

I appear to be able ; I
think I can

They are able because they
seem to be able ; they
can because they think
they can

After

Aid after the war ; help
offered too late

Afterwards

Advice comes too late when
a thing is done

After this, therefore in con-
sequence of this ; the
logical fallacy of treating
a subsequent event as
undoubtedly a result of a
preceding one, although
of course it is not neces-
sarily so

After noon

After death

After clouds, the sun ;
after adversity, pros-
perity. It is a long lane
that has no turning

A bond payable after death

After battles (come) re-
wards

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Postremo

Post scriptum (P.S.)

Post tenebras lux

Post tot naufragia portum

Postulatum (pi. Postulata)

Potentissimus est qui se
habet in potestate

Praecognita

Praemonitus prsemunitus
Praemunire

Praescriptum
Praenomen

Praepropera consilia raro

sunt prospera
Praesertim
Praeteriti anni

Primae viae
Prima facie

Primo

Lastly ; in short

Written afterwards

After darkness light. "Joy

cometh in the morning "
After so many shipwrecks

(we reach) a harbour

A demand ; an assumption
required for an argument

He is most powerful who
has himself in his own
power

Things previously known

Forewarned, forearmed

A writ issued against cer-
tain offenders, who are
thus placed outside the
protection of the law,
and are liable to for-
feiture of goods and to
imprisonment. The name
is taken from the first
words, pramoneri or
pramuniri facias : " Cause
A. B. to be forwarned
that he appear, &c."

A thing prescribed

A Christian name

Over-hasty counsels sel-
dom prosper
Especially

Years past and gone ; by-
gone days
The first passages

At first sight ; on a first
view, or consideration

In the first place

Latin Section.

107

Primum mobile

Primus inter omnes
Primus inter pares
Princeps obsoniorum
Principia
Principiis obsta
Principia, non homines
Principiis obsta

Priusquam incipias con-
sulito.et ubi consuliueris,
mature facto opus est

Private consensu
Pro aris et focis
Probatum est
Probitas laudatur et alget

Probitas verus honor
Pro bono publico
Probum non poenitet

Pro confesso

Pro et con (for contra)

Profanum vulgus

Pro forma

Pro hac vice

Proh pudor

The first impulse. Strictly,
the first movable sphere,
supposed to communi-
cate motion to the other
spheres

The first among them all

Chief among equals

The prince of tit-bits

First principles

Resist beginnings

Principles, not men

Oppose the beginnings (of
evil)

Before you begin consider,
and when you have well
considered, then act with
promptitude. Deliberate
slowly, execute promptly

By one's own consent

For our altars and firesides

It is proved

Honesty is praissd and
freezes (is left in cold
neglect)

Honesty is true honour

For the public good

The honest man does not

repent

As if conceded
For and against
The common people
For the sake of form
For this turn or occasion
For shame

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Pro libertatepatriae

Pro loco et tempore
Prooemium

Propaganda

Pro patria
Propositi tenax
Propria persona
Proprio motu

Pro rata

Pro rege, lege, et grege

Pro re nata
Pro tanto

Pro tempore
Proviso
Proxime accessit

Proximus ardet Ucalegon

Proximus sed proximus
longo intervailo

Prudens futuri
Publico consilio

For the liberty of one's
country

For place and time

Introduction, preface, pre-
lude

Short for the congregation
de propaganda fide (for
propagating or spreading
the knowledge of the
faith)

For our country

Firm of purpose

One's own individuality

On one's own motion ; of

one's own accord
In proportion

For the king, the law, and

the people
For a special emergency,

or business

For so much ; to that ex-
tent

For the time being
A condition, stipulation

Honourable mention (lit.
he came next)

Ucalegon('s house), next
door, is on fire. When
thy neighbour's house is
on fire, be careful of thine
own (see Nam tua res, &>c.)

Next, but next at a great
distance ; a bad second

Thoughtful of the future
By public consent

Latin Section,

109

Publicum bonum private
est praeferendum

Pugnis et calcibus

Punica fides

Qua ducitis adsum

Quse amissa salva

Quae fuerant vitia mores

sunt
Quaere
Quaerenda pecunia pri-

m um, virtus post

mummos
Quaistio fit de legibus, non

de personis

Quae supra nos nihil ad

nos
Qualis ab incepto

Quamdiu se bene gesserit
Quam multa injusta ac
prava fiunt moribus

Quam prope adcrimensine
crimine

Quam stepe forte temere

eveniunt quas nonaudeas

optare !
Quandoque bonus dormitat

Homerus
Ouando ullum inveniemus

parem ?

The public good is to be
preferred to private ad-
vantage ; privilege must
yield to public interest

With fists and heels ; with
all one's might

Punic (or Carthaginian)
faith ; treachery

Wherever you lead, I am
with you

What wras lost is safe

What used to be vices are
now common manners

Query ; search for

Money must first be got,
and after coins virtue

The question refers to the

laws, and not to persons

(or parties)
The things above us are

nothing to us

The same as from the be-
ginning

During his good behaviour
How many injustices and

wrongs are enacted

through custom
How near a man may

approach to guilt without

being guilty
How often do things you

dare not hope for happen

by mere chance !
Sometimes the good Homer

nods (goes to sleep)
When shall we find his like

again ?

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Quantum

Quantum est in rebus inane!

Quantum libet
Quantum meruit
Quantum mutatus ab illo

Quantum sufficit
Quantum valeat

Quaquaversum

Quare ?

Quare impedit ?

Quasi

Quern pcenitet peccasse
pene est innocens

Quern te Deus esse jussit

Qui amicus est amat, qui
amat non utique amicus
est

Qui capit ille facit

Quicquid agunt homines
nostri est farrago libelli

Quicquid excessit modum
pendet instabili loco

Quicunque turpi fraude
semel innotuit, etiamsi
verum dicit, amittit fidem

How much

How much emptiness there

is in the pursuits of man

(in life). What trifles

men pursue !
As much as you please
As much as he deserved
How changed from what

he once was
As much as is sufficient
(To take a thing for) what

it is worth

In whatever direction
Why ? for what reason ?
W7hy does he stand in the

way, or hinder ?
As if ; in a manner
He who is sorry for having

done wrong is next to

innocent
What God commanded you

to be
He who is a friend loves,

but he who loves is not

necessarily a friend
If the cap fits, put it on
Whatever men do (all the

interests of menjforms the

miscellaneous matter of

our (my) little book
Whatever has exceeded its

bounds is in a state of

instability
Whoever has once become

known for an act of base

deceit, even when he

speaks the truth, loses

the credit of it

Latin Section.

in

Quid de quoque viro, et cui
dicas, saepe caveto

Qui derelinquunt legem,
laudant improbos

Quid leges sine moribus
vanae proficiunt ?

Quid nunc ?

Qui docet, discit
Quid pro quo

Quidquid delirant reges
plectuntur Achivi

Quidquid multis peccatur
inultum est

Quidquid praecipies, esto

brevis
Quid rides ?

Quid sit futurum eras, fuge
quaerere

Quid tantum insano juvat
indulgere dolori ?

Quid turpius est quam

illudi ?
Quid verum atque decens

Quieta non inovere
Quietus

Take watchful care what
you say about any man,
and to whom you say it

They that forsake the law,
praise the wicked

Where is the good of laws
in the absence of morals ?

"What now?" One curious
to know everything is a
quidnunc

He who teaches others,
learns himself

Tit for tat ; a mutual con-
sideration

Whatever mad thing their
kings may do, the Greeks
suffer for it

The guilt that is committed
by many passes un-
punished

When you lay down a rule,
be short

Why do you laugh ?

Avoid inquiring what is
going to happen to-
morrow

What does it avail you to
give v/ay so much to un-
reasonable grief?

What is more shameful
than to be made a fool of ?

What is true and honour-
able

To let sleeping dogs lie

Calm, at rest ; hence the
condition of being settled
or at rest (lit. " quiet ")

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Qui facit per alium facit
per se

Oui invidet minor est
Qui male agit odit lucem

Qui nescit dissimulare
nescit vivere

Qui non est hodie eras minus
aptus erit

Qui non libere veritatem
pronunciat, proditor est
veritatis

Qui non proficit, deficit

Qui non vetat peccare cum
possit, jubet

Qui non vult fieri desidiosus,
amet

Quinquennium
Quiproquo

Quis consistat coram invi-

dentia ?
Quis custodiet ipsos cus-

todes ?

Qui sentit commodum,
sentire debet et onus

Quis fallere possit aman-

tem ?

What a man does through
another, he does through
himself. He is respon-
sible for his agent

He who envies is the in-
ferior

He that does evil hates the
light

He who knows not how to
dissemble knows not how
to live

He that is not fit to-day
will be less fit to-morrow

He who does not freely
speak the truth is a traitor
to the truth*

He who does not advance,
goes backwards

He that does not forbid
wrongdoing, when it is
in his power, orders it

Let him who does not wish
to become indolent fall
in love

A period of five years

A quibble, pun, conun-
drum

Who can stand in the pre-
sence of envy ?

Who shall guard the guards
themselves ?

He who feels the ad vantage
ought to feel the burden
as well

Who can deceive a lover ?

Latin Section.

Quis talia fando temperet
a lacrimis ?

Qui tarn ?

Qui terret, plus ipse timet

Qui timide rogat, docet

negare
Qui transtulit, sustinet

Qui uti scit, ei bona

Qui vult decipi decipiatur

Quo?
Quoad hoc

Quo animo ?

Quocunque modo

Quod avertat Deus

Quod decet honestum est,

et quod honestum est

decet
Quod erat demonstrandum

(Q.E.D.)
Quod erat faciendum

(Q.E.F.)
Quod est violentum, non

est durabile

Quodlibet
Quod potui perfeci
Quod sors feret, feremus
aequo animo

Quod vide (Q.V.)

Who can restrain himself
from tears in relating
such things ?

Who as well ?

He who awes others, is
more in fear himself

He who asks timidly
teaches a refusal

He who brought us hither
still preserves us

Good things to him who
knows how to use them

Let him that wishes to be
deceived be deceived

Whither ?

As regards this particular
matter

With what mind or inten-
tion ?

In whatsoever manner

Which may God avert

What is becoming is
honourable, and what is
honourable is becoming

Which was to be proved

Which was to be done

What is violent is not last-
ing. Extremes seldom
last long

Any thing whatever

I did what I could

Whatever chance shall
bring, we shall bear with
a calm and firm mind

Which see

H

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Quo fata vocant

Quo jure ?

Quo me cunque vocat

patria
Quondam
Quondam vicimus hisarmis

Quo pacto ?
Quorum

Quorum pars fui

Quorum pars magna fui
Quos Deus vult perdere
prius dementat

Quota

Quot homines, tot sententiae

Quotidie

Quot servi, tot hostes

Quo warranto?
Radix
Kara avis

Kara fides probitasque viris
qui castra sequuntur

Rari nantes

Ratio et consilium propriae
ducis artes

Rationale

Whither destiny calls me
By what right ?
Wherever my country

calls me

Formerly ; former (adj.)
We were once victorious

with these arms
How ? By what means ?
" Of whom." A sufficient

number to form a legal

meeting
Of which, or whom, I was

a part

In which I bore a great part
Those whom God wishes to

destroy He first deprives

of their senses
Share, proportion
So many men, so many

minds

Daily ; from day to day
So many servants, so many

enemies

By what authority ?
A root

A rare bird ; a prodigy
Good faith and probity are

rare among such as follow

camps
Swimmingone here another

there
Reason and deliberation

are the proper qualities

of a general
A statement of reasons ;

an exposition of the

principles of a subject

Latin Section.

Recipe

Recte et suaviter
Rectus in curia

Redire cum perit nescit

pudor
Redivivus

Redolet lucerna
Reductio ad absurdum
Regalia

Regina

Regium donum
Re infecta

Rem acu tetigisti

Renascentur
Renovate nomine
Repente
Requiem

Rsquiescat in pace (R.I. P.)

Rerum primordia
Res angusta domi

Res est sacra miser

Res est soliciiti plena timoris

amor
Residuum

Receive. (The items of

the prescription follow)
Justly and mildly
Upright in the court

Tne sense of shame once
lost, is gone for ever

Restored to life ; resusci-
tated

It smells of the lamp ; it is
a laboured production

Reducing an argument to
an absurdity

Badges, marks, or ensigns
of royalty

A queen

A royal gift

Without accomplishing
one's object

You have touched the
thing exactly (lit. with a
needle)

They will rise again

By a revived name

Suddenly

A hymn entreating rest

for the dead
May he (or she) rest in

peace
The first elements of things

Narrow circumstances at

home
A person in distress is a

sacred object
Love is a constant source

of fear and anxiety
The residue ; the dregs

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Res judicata

Respice finem

Responsio mollis avertit

excandescentiam
Res publica
Resurgam
Retinens vestigia famae

Revera
Revocare gradum

Rex

Ride et sapis

Ridentem dicere verum quid
vetat ?

Ride, si sapis
Risum teneatis ?
Rostra

Ruat ccelum

Rudis indigestaque moles

Rus in urbe

Rusticus exspectat dum
defluat amnis ; ' at ille
labitur, et labetur in
omne volubilis aevum

Saepe intereunt aliis medi-
tantes necem

A decided case, a case or
point on which judgment
has been pronounced

Look to the end

A soft answer turncth
away wrath

The commonwealth

I shall rise again

Maintaining the traces of
fame

In truth

To recall (retrace) one's
steps

A king

Laugh and be wise

What hinders one from
laughing and speaking
the truth ? One may
speak truth without pull-
ing a long face

Laugh, if you are wise

Can you forbear to laugh ?

A raised platform to speak

from ; tribune
Though the heavens fall (let

justice be done)
A rough and chaotic mass
The country in town
The peasant (according to
the fable) waits till the
river flow past ; but it
glides on, and will glide
on rolling for ever and
ever

Those who set the trap for
others often fall into it
themselves

Latin Section.

117

Saepe stilum vertas, iterum
quae digna legi sint
scripturus

Saevis inter se convenit

ursis
Sagittarius

Sal Atticum

Salus populi suprema est

lex

Salve !
Salvo jure
Salvo pudore
Sanatorium
Sancte et sapienter
Sanctum

Sanctum sanctorum
Sanitas sanitatum, omnia
sanitas

Sapere aude

Sapiens dominabitur astris

Sapiens ipse fingit fortunam

sibi
Sapientiam ac eruditionem

stulti spernunt
Sapientia prima est stul-

titia caruisse
Sartor resartus
Satagit rertim suarum

Frequently turn the stilus
(re-write your compo-
sitions again and again),
if you propose to write
anything worth reading
twice

Even savage bears agree
among themselves

The Archer (one of the
signs of the Zodiac)

Attic salt ; wit

The welfare of the people
is the highest law

Hail ! Welcome !

Saving the right

Without offence to modesty

A convalescent institution

Religiously and wisely

A holy (place); a private
cabinet

Holy of holies

Lit., Health of healths, all
is health. (After "vanity
of vanities, all is vani-
ty.") The chief concern
is health

Dare to be wise

The wise man will govern
the stars

The wise man fashions his
fortune for himself

Fools despise wisdom and
instruction

The first step to wisdom is
to be free from folly

The tailor mended

He has enough to do with
his own affairs

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Sat habeo

Sat cito, si sat bene

Satis accipere

Satis eloquentiae, sapientia:

parum
Satis, superque

Satis verborum
Saturno rege

Scandalum magnatum

(Scan. Mag.)
Scelere velandum est scelus

Scholium

Scienter

Scilicet

Scintilla

Scio cui credidi

Scire facias

Scire quid valeant humeri,
quid ferre recusent

Scire tuum nihil est, nisi
te scire hoc sciat alter

Scoriae
Scorpio

Scribendi recte sapere est
principium et fons

I have enough ; I am con-
tent
Soon enough if but well

enough

To take security, or bail
Sufficient eloquence, but

little wisdom
Enough, and more than

enough
Enough of words ; you

need say no more
In the reign of Saturn ; in

the golden age
Scandal or slander of great

personages
One crime is to be concealed

by another
Annotation ; gloss
Knowingly

That is to say ; to \vit
A spark

I know whom I have trusted
"Cause it to be known";

a writ
To know how strong the

shoulders are and what

they refuse to carry. To

know one's strength and

one's weakness
Your knowledge is nothing

(useless) unless others

know that you possess it
Ashes
The Scorpion (one of the

signs of the Zodiac)
The first principle and

source of good writing is

to think justly

Latin Section.

119

Scribimus indocti, doctique

Secundum ajtem
Secundum formam statuti

Segnius irritant animum
demissa per aures, quam
quae sunt oculis subjecta
fidelibus

Semel et simul

Semel insanivimus omnes

Semper avarus eget

Semper felix

Semper fidelis

Semper idem (fern, eadem)

Semper paratus

Semper vivit in armis

Senatus consultum

Sensorium

Separatio a mensa et toro

Septum

Sequela

Sequiturque patrem non

passibus aequis
Sequor non inferior
Sera in fundo parcimonia

Learned and unlearned

we all write
According to art

According to the form of
the statute

According to nature

In self defence

Those things looked upon
by trustworthy eyes more
duly impress the mind
than those which are
merely heard by the ears

At once and together

We have all once been mad

The miser is ever in want

Always happy

Always faithful

Always the same

Always ready

He ever lives in arms

A decree of the (Roman)
Senate

Seat of sense or thought ;
the brain

Separation from bed and
board

An inclosure ; fold ; barrier ;
fence

A consequence or result

He follows his father, but

not \vith equal paces
I follow, but am not inferior

Economy is useless when
all is spent. To lock the
door after the horse is
stolen

120 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Sera nunquam est ad bonos

mores via
Seriatim
Sero sapiunt Phryges

Sero, sed serie

Sero venientibus ossa

Serum est cavendi tempus

in mediis malis
Servabo fidem
Servare modum
Sesqui (in compounds)

Sesquipedalia verba

Sic

Sic itur ad astra

Sic jubeo

Sic passim

Sic totidem verbis

Sic transit gloria mundi

Sicut ante

Sic utere tuo ut alienum non
laedas

Sic volo, sic jubeo
Sic vos non vobis

The way to good manners

is never too late
In regular order
The Phrygians are wise too

late. A day after the

feast (or the fair)
Late, but seriously
The bones for those who

come late^ First come

best served
Caution time is over when

one is in the midst of evils
I will keep faith
To keep within bounds
Once and a half; more by

half; one half more
Words a foot and a half

long
So, thus

Such is the way to immor-
tality (lit. to the stars)
So I order
So everywhere
So in as many words
So passes away the glory

of the world
As before
Exercise your rights in

such a manner as not to

injure another man's

rights

So I wish, so I command
Thus you (do) not (labour)

for yourselves. Applied

when one person does

the work and another

reaps the fruits

Latin Section.

121

Si Deus nobiscum quis

contra nos ?
Si fortuna juvat
Silent leges inter arma

Si leonina pellis rfon satis
est, assuenda vulpina

Similia similibus curantur
Similis simili gaudet

Simplex munditiis

Sine Cerere etLibero friget
Venus

Sine cura
Sine die

Sine dubio

Sine ictu

Sine invidia

Sine joco

Sine odio

Sine omni periculo

Sine qua non

Sinus

Si quaeris monumentum,

circumspice
Siste viator
Sit sine labe decus

If God (be) with us, who

(shall be) against us ?
If fortune favours

The laws are silent in the
midst of arms

If the lion's skin is not
enough, sew the fox's to
it. Supplement strength
(force) by address (cun-
ning, astuteness)

Like is cured by like

Like delights in like.

Birds of a feather
Simple in (thy) elegance
When poverty comes in at

the door, love flies out

at the window
Without charge or care

Without a day appointed
(for further consideration,
or for next meeting)

Without doubt

Without a blow

Without envy

Without jesting ; seriously

Without hatred

Without any danger

An indispensable condi-
tion ; lit. without which
(the agreement can) not
(be concluded)

A bosom ; gulf or bay

If you seek my monument
look around

Stop, traveller

Let honour be stainless

122 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Sit tibi terra levis
Si vales, bene est
Si vivere perseverarent

Sola juvat virtus
Sola nobilitas virtus
Solvitur ambulando
Spargere voces in vulgum
ambiguas

Sparsim
Spectemur agendo

Sperat infestis

Spero meliora

Spes gregis

Spes mea Christus

Spes protracta aegrum

efficit animum
Spes tutissima coslis

Spicilegium
Spiculum
Spolia opima

Sponte sua

Spretas injuria formae

Stans pede in uno

Stare super vias antiquas

Stat magni nominis umbra

May the earth lie lightly on

thee
If you are in good health,

it is well
If they were to persist in

living

Virtue alone assists me
Virtue alone is true nobility
Doubt is resolved by action
To scatter among the

people words bearing a

double meaning
(Scattered) here and there
Let us be known by our

actions

He hopes in adversity
I hope for better things
The hope of the flock
Christ is my hope
Hope deferred maketh the

heart sick
The safest hope is in

Heaven

A selection ; an anthology
A spike ; spine ; needle

The choicest spoils (won by
one commander from the
other in single combat)
Unsolicited ; of one's own

accord
The offence of despising

(her) beauty
Standing on one foot
To stand to the old paths
He stands the shadow of a
mighty name

Latin Section.

123

Stat pro ratione voluntas •

Statu quo

Status

Status quo ante bellum

Stet

Stet pro ratione voluntas

Stillicidium

Stimulus

Stratum super stratum

Striae

Stultum est timere quod
vitare non potes

Stultusspernit eruditionem

patris sui
Stylo inverse

Sua cuique voluptas

Suae quisque fortunes faber

Suaviter in modo, fortiter

in re

Sub armis esse
Sub cruce veritas
Sub dio
Sub hoc signo vinces

Subito
Sub Jove
Sub judice

Will stands for reason
As things were before

Condition; standing (soci-
ally or otherwise)

The position existing be-
fore the war

Let it stand

Let my will stand for a
reason

A dripping ; drizzle

A spur ; goad ; incitement

Layer above layer

Furrows or small channels,
especially on boulders,
columns, &c.

It is foolish to dread that
which you cannot avoid

A fool despises his father's

instruction
With the wrong end of the

stylus (or pen)
Every man has his own

pleasures
Every man is the maker of

his own fortune
Gentle in manner, but

resolute in deed
To be in arms
Truth under oppression
Under the open sky

Under this sign thou shalt

conquer
Suddenly

Under the open sky
Under consideration

124 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Sublatum ex oculis quaeri-
mus

Sub poena
Sub rosa
Sub silentio
Substratum

Subsultim
Succedaneum
Suggestio falsi

Sui generis
Suis stat viribus

Summum bonum
SummumjuSjSummainjuria

Sunt lacrimae rerum, et
mentem mortaliatangunt

Suo gladio jugulari

Suo marte
Suo motu
Supersedeas

Super visum corporis

Supplicationes eloquitur
pauper, dives autem
Joquitur aspere

Suppressio veri

When the well is dry we
begin to appreciate the
value of water

Under a penalty

Under the rose ; secretly

In silence

What lies under an
erection ; support

By leaps or jumps

A substitute

The suggestion of wh.-ii is
false ; putting forward as
the fact what one knows
to be untrue

Of its own kind

He stands by his own

strength
The greatest good

The rigour of the law is the
rigour of oppression

There are circumstances
that move to tears, and
the woes of mortals
touch the mind (heart)

To be condemned out of
one's own mouth ; foiled
with one's own devices

By one's own valour

On one's own motion

A writ to stay or set aside
proceedings

Upon a view of the body

The poor use entreaties,
but the rich speak
roughly

A suppression of the truth

Latin Section.

125

Supra
Surdo loqui

Surgit amari aliquid
Suspiria de profundis
Suum cuique
Suum cuique pulcrum

Suus cuique mos
Symposium

Tabula rasa

Taedium vita

Tarn Marte quam Minerva

Tangere ulcus

Tantaene animis ccelesti-

bus irae ?

Tantas componere lites
Tanti
Tardus ad iram abundat

intelligentia
Te Deum

Te judice

Telum imbelle sine ictu

Tempora mutantur, nos et
mutarnur in illis

Above

To talk to a deaf man : to
lose one's labour ; to
urge a hopeless suit
Something bitter rises
Sighs from the depths
Let each man have his own

To every one his own (is)

most beautiful. The

crow thinks her own

bird fairest
Everyone has his particular

habit
A banquet ; feast ; usually

of learned persons
A blank tablet
Weariness of life
Possessed equally of

courage and genius
To touch the sore. To hit

the nail on the head
Does such anger dwell

(rage) in heavenly minds?
To settle so great a quarrel
Of such importance
He that is slow to anger is

of great understanding
Hymn of thanksgiving,

beginning Te Deum lauda-

mus (Thee, God, we

praise)
You being the judge

A feeble weapon thrown

without effect
The times change and we

change with them

126 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Tempus edax rerum

Tempus fugit
Tempus in ultimum
Tempus omnia revelat
Tenax propositi
Teres atque rotundus

Terminus
Terrae filius

Terra es, terram ibis

Terra firma
Terra incognita
Tertium quid
Timeo Danaos et dona

ferentes

Timet pudorem
Timor Domini fons vitae

Toga

Toga virilis

Tot homines, quot sententia?

Totidem verbis
Toties quoties
Totis viribus
Toto ccelo

Totum

Totum in eo est

Totus mundus agit histrio-

nem
Totus teres atque rotundus

Time the devourer of all

things
Time flies

To the last extremity
Time reveals all things
Tenacious of his purpose
Polished (smooth) and

round. Round as a ball
The end
A son of the soil ; a man

of mean birth
Dust thou art, to dust thou

shalt return

Solid earth ; a firm footing
An unknown land
A third something
I fear the Greeks, even

when they offer presents
He fears shame
The fear of the Lord is the

fountain of life
The Roman civil dress
The gown of manhood
So many men, so many

minds

In just so many words
As often as
With all his might
By the whole heavens ;

diametrically opposed
The whole
All depends on this
All the world's a stage

Complete, smooth, and
round

Latin Section.

127

Traditus non victus
Transeat in exemplum

Tria juncta in uno
Triumpho morte tarn vita
Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo
discrimine agetur

Truditur dies die

Tuebor

Tu ne cede malis

Tu quoque

Tutor et ultor

Tuum est

Uberrima fides

Ubi jus incertum, ibi jus

nullum
Ubi libertas, ibi patria

Ubi mel, ibi apes

Ubique

Ubi solitudinem faciunt
pacem appellant

Ubi supra
Ultima ratio

Betrayed, not conquered

May it pass into an ex-
ample

Three joined in one

I triumph in death as in life

Trojan and Tyrian shall
be treated by me with no
difference

One day is pressed on-
ward by another

I will defend

Do not you yield to mis-
fortunes

You, too. " You're an-
other." A tu quoque is a
retort, implying that the
case of the opposite
party is no better than
its rival's; each being
guilty of the same mis-
doings

Protector and avenger

It is your own

Implicit reliance

Uncertainty destroys law

Where liberty dwells, there
is my country

Where there is honey, there
are bees

Everywhere

Where they (military
monarchs) make a soli-
tude (by killing all the
people), they call it peace

Where above mentioned

The final reason or argu-
ment

128 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Ultima ratio regum
Ultima Thule

Ultimatum
Ultimo (ult.)
Ultimus regum
Ultra
Ultra vires

Umbilicus
Una voce

Unguibus et rostro

Unguis in ulcere
Uno animo

Uno avulso, non deficit
alter

Unum et commune pericu-
lum, una salus ambobus
erit

Urbem lateritiam invenit,
marmoream reliquit

Urbi et Orbi

Usque ad aras
Usque ad nauseam
Usus loquendi
Usus promptum reddit

The last reasoning of
kings ; military force

Most distant Thule ; the
furthest land or limit

The last proposal

The preceding month

The last of the kings

Beyond ; extreme

Beyond, in excess of (one's
legal) powers

The navel; middle; centre

With one voice ; unani-
mously

With claws and beak.
With all one's force

A claw in the wound

With one mind ; unani-
mously

On the removal of one,
another is not wanting.
II n'y a d'homme neces-
saire. There is no one so
important but the world
can go on without him

There shall be one common
danger, one safety for
both

He (Augustus) found the
city (Rome) a city of
bricks, he left it a city of
marble

To the city (Rome) and to
the world

To the very altars

Even to satiety, to disgust

The (or a) usage of speech

Practice makes perfect

Latin Section.

129

T"t infra

Uti possidetis

1 "t prosim

Ut quisqueest viroptimus,
ita difficillime essc alios
improbos suspicatur

Utrum horum mavis accipe

Ut supra

Ut vidi, ut perii

Vacuum
Vade mecum

Vae victis

Vale

Valeas !

Valeat quantum valere

potest

Valete ac plaudite
Valvae

Varise lectiones
Variorunv^edition)

m

Varium et mutabile semper

femina
Vates sacer
Vehimur in altum
Velis et remis

Velox consilium sequitur

poenitentia
Vel prece, vel pretio

As below

As you possess ; state of

present possession
That I may do good
The better a man is, the

less is he inclined to

suspect others
Take whichever you prefer ;

choose your horn (of a

dilemma)

As above ; as above stated
The moment I beheld, how

was I lost !

Absolutely empty space
"Go with me;" a book

carried as a constant

companion

Woe to the vanquished
Farewell
Be off with you !
Let it pass for what it is

worth

Farewell and applaud
A folding door ; valves
Various readings
An edition with the notes

of various writers (cum

notis variorum]
A woman is ever change-
able, ever capricious
Sacred prophet, or poet
We are borne on high
With sails and oars ; by

every possible means
Hasty counsels are fol-
lowed by repentance
For either love or money
i

130 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Veluti in speculum
Venalis populus, venalis
curia patrum

Vendidit hie auro patriam

Venenum in auro bibitur
Yenienti occurrite morbo

Venire facias

Veniunt a dote sajrittae

Veni, vidi, vici
Ventis remis

Ventis secundis

Ventis verba profundere

Vento et fluctibus loqui

Vento vivere

Verba facit pedibus suis

Verbatim

Verbatim et literatim

Verbum sat sapienti

Vere prius volucres taceant,
aestate cicadse

Yeritas nihil veretur nisi
abscondi

As in a mirror

The people is venal, the

senate is venal. Every

man has his price
This man sold his country

for gold

Poison is drunk out of gold
Meet an approaching

disease ; combat it on

the first symptoms
The writ for summoning a

jury
The darts come from her

dowry ; her money is her

chief attraction
I came, I saw, I conquered
With all one's might (lit.

with wind arid oars)
With prosperous winds
To pour forth words to the

winds ; to speak to deaf

ears
To speak to the wind and

the waves ; to waste one's

words

To live upon wind
He speaks with his feet
Word for word ; literally
\Vord for word, and letter

for letter
A word is enough for u

wise man
Sooner can^birds be silent

in spring, and the crickets

in summer ; an extreme

improbability
Truth fears nothing but

concealment

Latin Section.

Yeritas odium parit
Veritatis simplex oratio est

Ver non semper viret

Versus

Verus et fidelis semper

Vestigia

Vestigia nulla retrorsum

Vetustas pro lege semper

habetur
Vexata quaestio

Via

Via media

Viaticum

Via trita, via tuta

Vice
Vice versa

Victrix fortunae sapientia

Vide

Vide et crede

Videlicet (viz.)

Video meliora proboque,
deteriora seqnor

Truth begets hatred

The language of truth is

simple
Spring does not always

flourish
Against

Always true and loyal
Footsteps, traces
There are no backward

footsteps. " He has

burned his bridges "
Ancient custom is always

reckoned as a law
A vexed question ; a moot

point

By the way of
A middle course
Provision for the (last)

journey ; the Eucharist.

when administered to the

sick, or to persons unable

to go to church
The beaten path is the safe

path
In the place of

The terms being ex-
changed ; the reverse
Wisdom conquers fortune
See

See and believe
Namely

I see and approve of the
better things, I follow
the worse. I know the
right, and yet the wrong
pursue

132 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Vide ut supra

Vi et armis

Vigilate

Vincam aut moriar

Vincere aut mori

Vincit amor patriae

Vincit, qui se vincit

Vincit veritas
Vinctus invictus
Vinculum matrimonii
Vires acquirit eundo

Virgo

Viri infelicis procul amici
Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur
Virtus ariete fortior

Virtus est vitium fugere
Virtus in actione consistit
Virtus in arduis
Virtus incendit vires
Virtus invidiae scopus
Virtus non stemma
Virtus probata florescit
Virtus semper viridis

Virtus sub cruce crescit, ad
aethera tendens

Virtute mea me involve

See what is stated above
By force of arms
Be watchful
I will conquer or die
To conquer or to die
Love of country prevails
He conquers who over-
comes himself
Truth conquers
Chained but not conquered
The bond of marriage
She acquires strength in

her progress
The Maiden (one of the

signs of the Zodiac)
Friends keep at a distance
from an unfortunate man
The man is wise who talks

little
Virtue is stronger than a

battering ram
It is virtue to shun vice
Virtue consists in action
Virtue in difficulties
Virtue kindles the strength
Virtue is the mark of envy
Virtue, not pedigree
Virtue flourishes in trial

Virtue is always green

(fresh, blooming)
Virtue increases under the

cross and strives towards

heaven
I wrap myself up in my

virtue (integrity)

Latin Section.

Virtute non viris

Virtute officii

Virtuti nihil obstat et arm is

Virtutis amore
Virum volitare per ora

Virus

Vis a tergo

Vis comica

Vis inertias

Vis poetica

Vis preservatrix

Vis unita fortior

Vis vita?

Vita brevis, ars longa

Vitam impendere vero

Vitam regit fortuna, non

sapientia
Vitanda est improba siren,

Desidia
Vitiis nemo sine nascitur \

Vivat regina
Vivat respublica
Vivat rex
Viva voce
Vive memor leti
Vive, vale
Vivida vis animi

From virtue not from men
By virtue of office

Nothing can oppose virtue

and courage
By the love of virtue

To flit through the mouths
of men ; to pass from
lip to lip ; to spread
like wild-fire

Poisonous infectious mat-
ter

A propelling force from
behind

Comic power, or talent

The power of inertness

Poetic genius

A preserving power

Union is strength

The vigour of life

Life is short and art is long

To stake one's life for the
truth

It is fortune that governs
human life, not wisdom

The wicked siren, Sloth, is
to be shunned

No man is born without
his faults

Long live the queen

Long live the republic

Long live the king

By the living voice ; orally

Live mindful of death

Farewell and be happy

The living force of the mind

134 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Vivit post funera virtus
Vix decimus quisque est
Vixere fortes ante Aga-

memnona
Volenti non fit injuria

Volo, non valeo
Vota vita mea
Vox et praeterea nihil
Vox faucibus haesit

Vox populi, vox Dei

Vulgo

Vulneratus, non victus

Vulnus immedicabile
Vultus est index animi

Zephyrus
Zonam perdidit
Zonam solvere

Virtue survives the grave
There is scarce one in ten
There lived brave men
before Agamemnon

No injustice is done to
a person by an act to
which he consents

I am willing, but unable

My life is devoted

A voice and nothing more

The voice stuck in the
throat

The voice of the people is
the voice of God

Commonly

Wounded, but not con-
quered

An irreparable injury ; an
incurable wound

The face is the index of
the mind

A gentle wind ; a zephyr

He has lost his purse

To loose the virgin zone
(belt, worn by girls, and
laid aside on marriage) ;
to marry (a woman)

GREEK SECTION.

(Hades)

(Athumia)

TOV KaXXovs KO.I a/D€T7?<;
(Aidos tou kallous kai
aretes polis)

Atet /coXotos Trpos KoXoiov travel
(Aiei koloios pros koloion
hizanei)

Atretre, /cat SoOrjcrerai V/JLIV (Ai-
teite, kai dothesetai humin)
Auav (^Eon)
(Acme)

(x\cropolis)

AXAwv larpos, auros eAKecri
flpvuv (Allon iatros, autos
helkesi bruon)

a Kai fl/xeya (Alpha and
Omega)

(Ambrosia)

(Among the ancients), the

abode of the dead, the

world of spirits
Despondency; exhaustion of

the heart
Modesty is the citadel of

beauty and virtue

A jackdaw always sits beside
a jackdaw. Birds of a
feather

Ask, and it shall be given you

An age ; a long period of time

The highest point ; the crisis

A citadel

The physician of others, thou
thyself art full of ulcers.
(Lat. Aliorum m#ltatst&c.)
Physician, heal thyself.

The first and the last (letters
of the Greek alphabet); the
beginning and the end

The food of the gods (con-
ferring immortality) ; any-
thing pleasing to the taste
or smell

136

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

A/A</>OT£pOt KAwTTES, KO.I 6 Se£a-

P.IVOS Kai 6 K\e\]/a<s (Ampho-
teroi klopes, kai ho dexa-
menos kai ho klepsas)

AvayK^s orSev icr^rei irAeov
(Anangkes ouden ischuei
pleon)

Ava0<rp,a (Anathema)

t avSpcov Aya/xeju.vo>j/ (An ax
andron Agamemnon)

AvOpu>Tro<s com 7rvevp.a Kai crKia
fj-ovov (Anthropos esti pneu-
ma kai skia monon)

A£ia rj KVWV TOV ^Spw/Aaro? ( Axia
he kuon tou bromatos)

A^iw/xttra (Axiomata)
(Apotheosis)

(Apollyon)
ATT oi>pa? TTJV ey^eAw £X€ts
(Ap* ouras ten engchelun
echeis)

(Apophysis)

Apeo7rayo9 (Areopagus)

/xerpov (Ariston me-
tron)
Apto-rov vSwp (Ariston hudor)

Both are thieves, the receiver
and the thief. No receiver,
no thief

There is no virtue like neces-
sity

A solemn curse ; an accursed
thing

Agamemnon, king of men

Man is but a breath and a
shadow

The dog is worth his food. It

is an iU dog that deserves

not a crust
Admitted propositions, axioms;

general maxims
Deification ; the placing of a

distinguished person among

the (heathen) deities
Lit. the Destroyer ; Beelzebub
You have (hold) the eel by

the tail. You have to do

with an active and slippery

customer
The process of a bone ; the

prominence to which a

tendon is attached
A famous court of justice held

on Mars' (Ares') Hill, at

Athens
Moderation (a middle course)

is best
The best (or first) of things is

water

Greek Section,

P.OL (Arkei moi)

rj/jLicrv — ai TO? (Arche
hemisu pantos)

ArXas (Atlas)

Av-ofj.a.Tov (Automaton)
AvToi/o/Mia (Autonomia)
Ba(9cs (Bathos)

BaA/V es Krpa/cas (Ball' CS
korakas)

Bacris (Basis)

Be/JaTrTioytevos (Uebaptisme-
nos)

Bopeas (Boreas)

o^Sov (Boustrophe-
don)

axaipo?, Seivov KOLKOV
(Gelos akairos, deinon
kakon)

r^pacrKw aiet TTO\/ a 8iSa(r/co/X€-
fos (Gerasko aiei polla
didaskomenos")

JYojtfi Kaipov (Gnothi kairon)

It suffices me ; I am content
The beginning is the half of

the whole. Well begun is

half done

A giant who was fabled by the
Greeks to have borne the
earth on his shoulders, as a
punishment for attempting
to storm heaven ; a collec-
tion of maps

A thing that is self-moved, as
a clock, &c.

Self-government ; being go-
verned by one's own laws

A sinking ; ludicrous descent
from the elevated to the
mean in speech or writing

Away with you ! Be hanged !

Foundation; base

Soaked (in wine). Lat. vino
madidus

The north wind ; the north

Turning in writing, as oxen
do in ploughing ; writing
from left to right, and from
right to left

Mirth (laughter) out of season
is a grievous ill

I learn more and more as I
grow old. Older and wiser.
Live and learn

Know the right time, or oppor-
tunity

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Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

ouSe

rai €(r8Xr)<s a/Aeivof, ovSe ptytov
*aK?7s (Gunaikos oude
chrem' aner leizetai esthles
ameinon, oude rhigion
kakes)

<£aAojs (Deina peri
phakes

Aei </>6peiv ra rtov tfecoy (Uei
pherein ta ton theon)

(Delta)

AT//XOS (Demos)
Aia0€o-is (Diathesis)

Ata TroXXa (Dia polla)
(Diastole)

(Diaphoresis)
Aoy/m (Dogma)
Acopa SvcrfJia^rjTa Motcrav (D5ra

dusmacheta Moisan)

(Heautous emphani-
zousin hoitines eisin)

(Eidolon)
(Eikon)

El? TO 7TV/3 CK TOV KttTTl'OU (Eis

to pur ek tou kapnou)

Man gains no better possession
than a good wife, nor worse
than a bad one. A man
must ask his wife leave to
thrive

Terrible things about a lentil.
Much matter of a wooden
platter. Much ado about
nothing

We must bear what the gods.
send. We must patiently
submit to Providence

The triangular tract of land
at the mouth of a great
river; so called from its
similarity to the Greek letter
A(D) '

The people

A disposition, state, condition

(as illness, heat, cold, &c.)
For many reasons
The dilation (of the heart or

lungs)
Perspiration

An opinion, belief, tenet
The gifts of the Muses, not

obtained without severe

struggles
They show themselves in their

true character

An image, idea, " idol "
An image or representation

Out of the smoke (frying-pan)^
into the fire

Greek Section.

(Hector)

O-IS (Ecchymosis)

fte (Eleeson me)

ex /xvias TTOUIV (Ele-
phanta ek muias poiein)

(Empyreuroa)

E£eAr7/XaKas /"•* fK T<ov ef*-<*v

(Exelelakas me ek tdn

emon)
E£O> (or CKTOS) Spo/xou <£epc<r$ai

(Exo, or ektos, dromou

pheresthai)

A bully, a blustering fellow
Extravasation of blood under

the skin
Pity me
To make an elephant of a fly ;

to make much of; to make

a mountain of a molehill
Coal to preserve a smouldering

fire

You have rogued me out of
my all

enta)

To be borne outside the race-
course, to get off the course ;
to wander from the point.
Lat. extra okas vagari.
(Epea ptero- Winged words

(Epigennema)
(Epiglottis)

(Epidermis)
ETTI Svoiv ay/cvpair op/xetv (Epi
duoin angkurain hormein)

ETTI £vpov (Epi xurou) or ETTI
£vpov aKfjiTqs (Epi xurou
akmes)

(Epitome)

TTOTrod'a (Epopoiia)

(Erysipelas)

A result, consequence

A cartilaginous plate that

covers the windpipe during

the act of swallowing
The outer skin, or cuticle
To ride at two anchors ; to

be in harbour ; to have two

strings to one's bow
On the edge of a razor ; in

extreme peril

A summary, abstract, or
abridgment

The composition of epic
poetry ; the epopee, epic
poetry

St. Anthony's fire ; an inflam-
matory eruption

140 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Epos (Eros)
ETI-'/XOV (Etymon)

Evye (Euge)

Ev8a.L/uu»v 6 /j.r]8ev o<£eiAu>v (Eu-
daimon ho meden ophetlon)

(Euthanasia)
Evt>r)Ka (H eureka)

(Hebe;
ia (Hegemonia)

'HSu SouAeu/x.0. (Hedu douleu-
ma)

'HAi£ r;Ai/v-a rep-irei (Helixhelika
terpei)

H /A€croT?7s ev iracriv acr^aAccr-
repov (He mesotes en pasin
asphalesteron)

(Echo)

(Theioteros)
(Theios)

v yoL'i^ao-i K«iTat (Theon
en gounasi keitai)

'Jaropia <^)iAocro^)ta ecrriv fK
TrapaSetyuarwv (Historia
philosophia estin ek para-
deigmaton

Kaipov yvwOi (Kniron gnothi)

The god of love ; Cupid

An original or primitive word ;

a root

Well done ! Bravo !
Happy the man who owes

nothing. Out of debt, out

of danger

An easy, happy death
Lit. " I have found (it) ;" a

discovery, especially after

long and difficult research
The goddess of youth
The lead, the chief command,

the sovereignty of one state

over subordinate states —

hegemony

A sweet service (or bondage)

Like delights like. Birds of a
feather

Moderation (a middle course)
in all things is safest

A reverberated or reflected
sound

By special providence
By divine providence

It (the event, issu;) lies on
the knees (rests in the
bosom) of the gods

History is philosophy teaching
by example

Know your opportunity

Greek Section.

141

ros brachu metron echei)
Kar' t^oxyv (Kat7 exochen)
KuT-qyop-qxa (Categorema)

KotfCdVtKOI/ ICftiOV 6 ' avdpMTTOS

(Koinonikon zoon ho an-
thropos)

Ko/Xoio; ~OTt KO\OLOV

poti koloion)
Kooy<.os (Cosmos)

(Ktemata
kai chremata)

KvSos (Kudos)

(Lathe biosas)

s (Lalisteros

AoXio--€po?
korones)

(Lethe)

Aoyos e^€i (Logos echei)
Mai/ia (Mania)

apicrro?, oorts ctxact
Ka/\a)<; (Mantis aristos, hostis
eikazei kalos)

Mai/m KUKUH' (Mantis kakon)

]\lcya (3i/3\iov, /xeya /caKov
(Mega biblion, mega kakon)

Time and tide wait for no
man

By excellence ; pre-eminently

A predicate ; something as-
serted of a subject

Man is a social animal

Jackdaw to jackdaw. Like to
like. Birds of a feather

Order, harmony; the universe
(as an embodiment of order
and harmony)

Property in kind and in money

Glory, fame, honour

Live in obscurity, or retire-
ment

More talkative (chattering)
than a jackdaw

" Forgetfulness, oblivion," one
of the rivers of Hades,
whose waters caused those
that drank of them to forget
the past

The story prevails

Madness, rage, vehement or
uncontrollable desire

The best divine is he who
well divines

A prophet of evils

A great book is a great evil

142 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

MeAer»7 TO TTOJ/ (Melete to pan)

Mera(9«ns (Metathesis)
ig (Metalepsis)

Merao-racris (Metastasis)
ayav (Meden agan)

MT; Kptvere Jva fn; KpiOrjre (Me
krinete hina me krithete)
(Myrmidon)

(Myopia)
(Nectar)

Nc/A£crts (Nemesis)

a Se KCU crtSr/pov Kat Trup
KaATj TIS ova-a (Nika de kai
sideron kai pur kale tis
ousa)

a Noemata)

? (Nous)

Diligent care is everything.
Nothing is impossible to a
willing mind

A change of places, or
opinions ; a transposition

Participation, alternation ; the
use of one word for another,
a change of construction

A removal, change; revolution

Too much of one thing is
good for nothing. Not too
much of anything. Pursue
nothing too hotly

Judge not, that you be not
judged

(From murmidones, the soldiers
under Achilles at the siege
of Troy), a soldier under
a daring or unscrupulous
leader, a ruthless character ;
one that executes orders in-
volving harshness

Shortsightedness

Anciently, the drink of the
gods ; a very pleasant drink

Retribution ; a female Greek
divinity personifying the
righteous anger of the gods
against the proud and in-
solent

A woman who is beautiful
(Beauty) conquers both iron
and fire

Thoughts, perceptions
Intellect, mental capacity,
talent

Greek Section.

'43

(Nuchthemeron)

Seo/xevos eyytora.
(Ho elachiston deome-

nos enggista theon)
*O €^wv tora a/couetv, aKoucTw

(Ho echon ota akouein,

akoueto)
Ofy Trep <j)v\\o>v yevff), TOM/ Se

/cat avSpcov (Hoie per phullon

genee, toie de kai andron)
Ol 7roAA.ot (Hoi polloi)
'O KOO-JUOS OVTOS )U.ta TroXts eorn

(Ho kosmos houtos mia

polls esti)
O/ji/JLa Oeicf etcrw TrerrXwv (Omma

theis' eiso peplon)
Ovap Kat {i?rap (Onar kai hupar)
'Ov oi Ocoi ^iXovcrti', airoOvrjcTKei

veos (Hon hoi theoi philou-

sin, apothneskei neos)

ua (Onomatopoii'a)

OuSev TTpay^a. (Ouden pragma)

Ov Suvartu TroAts «pu/3ryvat

opous Kcifjievrj (Ou dunatai
polis krubenai epano orous
keimene)

Ou Aoyw aXA.' cpyoi (Ou logo
all' ergo)

IIa0o9 (Pathos)

A night and a day; the space

of 24 hours
He that has fewest wants is

nearest (likest) to the gods

He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear

As is the race of leaves, such
(is the race) also of men

The many, the multitude
This universe is one city (or
commonwealth)

Turn your eyes within your

mantles
Sleeping and waking ; always

He whom the gods love, dies
young

The formation of words in
imitation of sounds ; as
buzz, hum

It is no matter ; of no conse-
quence

A city that is set upon an hill
cannot be hid

Not in word, but in deed ;
not theoretically, but prac-
tically

"Feeling," the quality of
speech or action that excites
emotion ; the expression of
strong feeling

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KctXoos (Panu kalos) No, thank you. Lat. benigne

Hap' eauTov (Par* heautou) Of oneself, on one's own

motion

Hap" fpoL (Par' emoi) In my opinion. Lat. me judice

Hap" e/xou (Par' emou) By my advice

Ilacriv fV(j)povov(TL (rv/A/xa^et Every prudent man has for-
WX1! (P^sin euphronousi tune for an ally
summachei tuche)

Ws (Perilepsis) A. grasping with the hand ;

comprehension
(Periplous) A sailing round; an account

of a coasting voyage

a/3pa yeXwn-es (Pino- Let us drink and be merry !
men habra gelontes)

IToSt Kai xeipi(Podi kai cheiri) With foot and hand; with
or ITocri Kai ^eptrtv (Posi kai feet and hands ; with all
chersin) one's might

IloXXot fj.aOr)Tai KpeiTTovcsStSau- Many pupils come to excel
KaXwv (Polloi mathetaikreit- their teachers
tones didaskalon)

IIou o-Tco (pou sto) " Where I may stand;" a basis

to work from, leverage
ground

va (Prolegomena) Preliminary observations ;
prefatory remarks

ua (Prosopopoiia) Personification

I]w,- av o\oifj.r]v (Pos an oloi- Would that I could perish
men)

5«</>w? /J.OL era? <£pa<rov SwOv- Tell me plainly thy troubles
/j.iat (Saphos moi sas phra-
son dusthumias)

Anciently a river in the infernal
regions

(Systole) The contraction (of the heart

or lungs)

Greek Section.

o? (Sphakelos)
(Sphinx)

TauTa Oe.(j)v cv yowacri Ketrai
(Tauta theon en gounasi
keitai)

Ti o-e Set XiOov fj.vpt£fw (Ti se
dei lithon murizein)

To KO.XOV (To kalon)
To irptirov (To prepon)

Tou Kttl ttTTO yA.toO~O~77S /X€/\6TOS

yAu/aojj/ pee^ auSr; (Tou kai

apo glosses melitos glukion
rheen aude)

Touro KO.V ?rat9 -yvoirj (ToutO

kan pais gnoie)

dp/xttTos yap oia yStoros
KuAur^as (Trochos
h.trniatos gar hoia biotos
trechei kulistheis)

Twv d/\wi/ cruyKareSr/SoKevai

/xeSi/xvov (Ton halon sun-

katededokenai medimnon)
'Yyieia (Hygeia)

«crre TO (^>ws TOU KOCT/AOU

(Humeis este to phos tou

kosmou)

rpoTfpov (Husteron

proteron)
4>ap/xa/(ov v^Trev^es (Pharmakon

nepenthes)

Gangrene, mortification ; con-
vulsion

An ancient fabulous monster
that proposed riddles to
people, whom it tore to
pieces on failing to solve
them

These things depend upon
the gods (lit. rest on the
knees of the gods)

Why should you anoint a
stone? Care and labour
lost

The beautiful ; the chief good

The becoming ; correct con-
duct

And his voice (speech) flowed
from his tongue sweeter
than honey (of a good
speaker)

Even a child would know this.

Every schoolboy knows this
For life runs rolling on, like

the wheel of a chariot

To have eaten a bushel of
salt together. To be old
friends

The goddess of health
Ye are the light of the world

The last (put) first. The cart

before the horse
A drug that lulls or removes

sorrow

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(Phasis)

TCJV KTeavwv (Pheideo
ton kteanon)

VTTVOV 6€X.yr)Tpov (Philon
hupnou thelgetron)
Xaipe (Chaire)

(Chairon
poreuou)

ra KaXa (Chalepa ta
kala)

Xaos (Chaos)
Xapwv (Charon)

voyw.os (Cheiron nomos)
) \pv(TOTfpa (Chruso
chrusotera)

An appearance, phase
Husband your resources

The blessed charm (spell) of

sleep
Happiness to you ! Welcome !

Farewell ! Away with you !
Make your journey in peace ;

depart in peace
Good things are difficult to

(attain). The best things

are worst to come by
Vacant space ; a confused or

disordered mass
The ferryman who conducted

the dead in his boat across

the river Styx
The law of might
More golden than gold itself;

finer, more precious

FRENCH SECTION.

A b.-irbe de fou on apprend

a raser

A bas le traitre
Abbe
A beau jeu beau retour

A bis et a blanc
A bon appetit il ne faut
point de sauce

A bon chat, bon rat

A bon chien il ne vient
jamais un bon os

A bon commencement

bonne fin
A bon demandeur bon

refuseur
A bon entendeur il ne faut

que clemi mot

A bon vin il ne faut point

de bouchon
A bon vin point d'enseigne

Men learn to shave on a

fool's chin

Down with the traitor
An abbot
One good turn deserves

another

By fits and starts
A good appetite needs no

sauce ; hunger is the

best sauce
Well matched; set a thief

to catch a thief
A good bone does not

always come to a good

dog. Merit seldom meets

with its reward
A good beginning makes

a good end
Shameless craving must

have shameful refusing
To one of good intelligence

half a word is enough.

A word (is sufficient) to

the wise
Good wine needs no bush

Good wine needs no bush

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A brebis tondue le ciel

mesure le vent
Abrege
Acariatre

A chacun son gout
A chaque oiseau son nid

est beau

Acheter des objets d'occa-

sion

A cheval
A cheval donne il ne faut

jamais regarder la bride
A chien endormi rien ne

tombe en la gueule
A cceur ouvert

A centre cceur
A corps perdu
A coup sur

Acquerir mechamment et
depenser sottement

Adieu

Adieu la voiture
A discretion
Affaire d'amour
Affaire de creur
Affaire d'honneur
Affiche

Heaven tempers the wind

to the shorn lamb
An abridgement
Peevish ; churlish
Everyone to his liking
Every bird thinks its own

nest beautiful. Home

is home be it ever so

homely
To buy second-hand things

On horseback

Never look a gift horse in

the mouth
A closed mouth catcheth

no flies
With open heart; candidly;

unreservedly
Unwillingly; with one's

face against
Neck or nothing ; post

haste ; \vithout ballast
With a dead certainty ;

sure as fate ; clear as

noon-day
To acquire wickedly and

spend foolishly. Ill got,

ill spent. Ill-gotten

goods seldom prosper
Good-bye; farewell; lit. (I

commit you) to God
The affair is over
At discretion
An affair of love
A love affair
An affair of honour
A placard

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149

A fond ; de fond en comble

Agacerie

Agent de change

A grands frais

Agrement

A haute voix

A htiis clos

Aide-de-camp

Aide-toi, et le ciel t'aidera

Aimable

Aimer eperdument

Air distingue
Air distrait
Air noble
Ajustez vos flutes

A 1'abandon
A la belle etoile

A la bonne heure

A 1'abri
A la derobee

A la faim il n'y a point de
mauvais pain

A la fin ils en vinrent aux

coups
A la Fran^aise

Thoroughly ; from top to

bottom
Allurement
A stockbroker
At great expense
Consent

Loudly ; openly
On the sly ; behind the

scenes

Assistant to a general
Help yourself and heaven

will help you
Amiable
To love to distraction ; to

hold dear; to be supreme-
ly in love with
A distinguished air or

appearance
An absent or abstracted

look
A distinguished, patrician

air, manner, or presence
Settle your differences

yourselves
At random
In the open air ; al fresco ;

out of doors
Good ; well timed. That

will do

In shelter ; under cover
Stealthily
With hunger no bread is

nasty. Hungry dogs eat

dirty puddings
At last they came to blows

After the French mode

150 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

A la guerre comme a la

guerre
A la lettre
A la mode
A 1'Anglaise
A la sourdine

Alentours (les)

A 1'envi

A I'extremite

A 1'impossible nul n'est tenu

A 1'improviste

Allant a tort et a travers

Allegresse

Aller a tatons

Aller planter ses choux

A loisir

A 1'ongle on connait le lion

A main armee
A ma puissance
Amateur

Ambigu

Ambulances
Ame damnee

Take the rough with the

smooth

Word for word, literally
According to the fashion
After the English custom
Murmuringly ; with bated

breath
Neighbouring ; nearness ; a

stone's throw
Emulously
At the point of death ;

without resource
The best can do no more
Unawares
Like a bull at a gate ; wide

of the mark ; not having

a leg to stand upon
Cheerfulness; mirth; hi-
larity; vivacity
To feel the pulse ; to throw

out a feeler
Rustication ; estrangement

from the world
At leisure
The lion is known by his

paw

By force of arms
To my power

A lover (of some pursuit
or business) ; one that
practises it for love of it,
but not professionally

Mixture; alloy; jumble;
farrago

Movable military hospitals

A miserable drudge

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Ame de bouc
Amende honorable

Ame qui vive

A merveille

Amitie

Amour et seigneurie ne se

tinrent jamais compagnie
Amour fait beaucoup, mais

argent fait tout
Amour-propre
Ancienne noblesse

Ancien regime

A outrance
A pas de geant
A peindre

A perte de vue

/ A pierre fendre
Appartement

Apres cela on a recom-
mence de plus belle
Apres la mort le m^decin
Apres la pluie vient le beau
temps

Apres moi le deluge

A contemptible person

A sufficient and courteous

apology

Not a soul ; nobody
Marvellously well
Friendship
Love and lordship do not

keep company
Love is potent, but money

is omnipotent
Self-esteem
The old nobility (of France

before the Revolution)
The former (old) govern-
ment or administration

(in France before the

Revolution)
To the uttermost
With great strides
Fit for a model
Glimpse ; epitome ; digest
Afar off ; incontiguous ;

from end to end ; wide of

the mark
Cold as stone ; cold as

Charity
A suite of two or more

rooms. (A single apart-
ment is chambre)
They went on then worse

than ever

After death, the doctor
After rain comes fine

weather. After a storm

comes a calm
After me, the deluge. The

devil take the hindmost

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Apres nous le deluge

Apres perdre, perd on bien

A propos

A propos de bottes

A propos de rien

A quelque chose malheur

est bon
A qui chapon mange,

chapon lui vient

A quoi bon faire cela ?

A reculons, a rebours
A rez-de-chaussee
Argent comptant

Argent re?u le bras rompu
Armes blanches

Arriere-garde
Arriere-pensee

Arts d'agrement

A six heures il pleuvait a

verse
Assez d'histoires inventees

a plaisir
Assez y a, si trop n'y a

The devil take the hind-
most ; the charity that
begins at home ; to take
care of number one
After losing at first, one
becomes a good loser

To the point ; seasonable

By the way ; by the by

Without a sufficient motive

It is an ill wind that blows
nobody any good

Capon comes to him who
eats capon. Spend and
God will send

What's the good of doing
that ?

To the right about

On the ground floor

Ready money, for im-
mediate payment

Borrowed money is a
broken arm

Side arms (sabre, sword,
bayonet) ; cold steel

The rear-guard

An after thought ; a mental
reservation

Accomplishments ( in la-
dies' schools)

At six it poured with rain

That's enough of your tales

There is enough, if there
be not too much. Too
much of one thing is good
for nothing. Enough is
as good as a feast

French Section.

Assignat

Assistance obligee
A t;ltons

A tort et a travers
A tort ou a raison
A tons oiseaux leurs nids

sont beaux
A toute outrance

A toutes jambes

A tout propos

A tout seigneur tout honneur

Attache

Atteler les chevaux
Attroupement

Auberge

Au bon droit

Au bout de son Latin

Au bout du compte

Au contraire
Au courant

Au desespoir
Au fait
Au fond

French paper money after
the Revolution in the
end of last century

Compulsory help ; poor
relief

Experimentally; on trial;
at a venture

Anyhow ; confusedly

Reason or none

All birds fancy their own
nests

Desperately ; tremendous-
ly ; with a vengeance

As fast as one's legs can
carry one

At every turn, ever and
anon

Render to Caesar the things
that are Caesar's

An official belonging to an
embassy

Put the horses to

A mob ; a muster ; a con-
gregation

An inn

With just right

At the end of his resources

On the whole; in conclu-
sion ; in short ; taking one
thing with another

On the contrary

Fully acquainted (with

matters)
In utter despair
Well informed; master of it
To the bottom

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Aujourd'hui roi, demain
rien

Au jour le jour

Au naturel

Au pied de la lettre

Au pis aller

Au premier abord la chose

n'est pas claire
Au renard endormi rien

ne tombe en la gueule

Au reste
Au revoir

Au royaume des aveugles
les borgnes sont rois

Au serieux

Aussitot dit, aussitdt fait
Autant d'hommes, autant

d'avis
Autant en emporte le vent

Autant vaut porter de 1'eau

a la riviere
Autre droit
Aux abois

Aux aguets

Avaler des couleuvres

Avant
Avant-coureur

To-day a king, to-morrow

nothing. To-day me, to-
morrow thee
From hand to mouth
In the natural state
Literall)'
At the worst
At first sight the matter is

not clear
When the fox is asleep,

nothing falls into his

mouth

In addition to this; besides
Adieu, until we meet again
In the kingdom of the

blind, men with a single

eye are kings
Seriously ; in a serious

mood

No sooner said than done
So many men so many

opinions
So much the wind carries

away. It is all idle talk
You might as well carry

coals to Newcastle
Another's right
At death's door ; in extremis ;

having one foot in the

grave

Watchful ; vigilant : catch-
ing a weasel asleep
To pocket the affront ; to

swallow the pill ; to bear

with

Forward; advance
A forerunner

French Section.

Avant-propos

Avec de bon sens, le reste
vient

Avec nantissement '
Avec votre permission
A vieux comptes nouvelles
disputes

Avis au lecteur

Avisez la fin

Avocat

Avoir 1'air emprunte

Avoir la languebienpendue

Avoir le cceur haut et la

fortune basse
Avoir le diable au corps

Avoir une memoire de

lievre
A volonte
A votre sante
A vue d'ceil

Ayez toujours plusieurs

cordes a votre arc
Badaud
Badauderie
Badinage
Bagatelle

Bal par souscriptions
Bal champetre

Prelude ; preface ; prologue
With good sense all other

things come. Good

sense will conduct a man

to success

With security (pledge)
With permission
Old reckonings cause

new disputes. Short

reckonings make long

friends
A word to the wise is

sufficient
Consider the end
An advocate ; a barrister
To look awkward
To have the gift of the gab
To have high spirit and

low fortune
Out of one's mind ; having

a bee in one's bonnet ;

mad as a March hare
To have a treacherous

memory

At will ; at pleasure
To your health
Forthwith ; speedily ; at

short notice
To have more than one

string to your bow
A (Parisian) Cockney
Silliness ; foolery
Playful discourse
A trifle

A subscription ball
A country ball

156 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Baliverne
Balourdise
Bande noire
Barbouillage
Bas bleu

Baste pour cela
Bastille

Batir des chateaux en Es-

pagne
Baton
Battre la campagne

Battre la generale

Battre 1'eau avec un baton
Battre le fer sur I'enclume

Battue
Bavardej
Beau ideal
Beau monde

Beaute et folie vont souvent
de compagnie

Beaux esprits
Beaux yeux
Bel esprit

Humbug ; nonsense
Stupidity ; want of skill
The black gang ; a bad lot
Scrawl ; rigmarole
A blue stocking; a learned

woman
Well, so be it ; mum for that

A castle or stronghold in
Paris, where state-
prisoners were confined
in the end of last century

To build castles in the air

A stick ; a staff

To go on a fool's errand ;
to strain at a gnat and
swallow a camel ; to
reckon without one's host

To beat to arms; a warning
voice ; to give the signal
of danger, or distress

To burn one's finger's ; to
skin a flint

To take time by the fore-
lock ; to make hay while
the sun shines

A massacre of game

A foolish gossiping woman

A perfect model

The fashionable wrorld

Beauty and folly often go
in company. Fair and
sluttish (foolish)

Men of wit and humour

Beautiful eyes

A brilliant mind

French Section.

Belle

Belles-lettres
Belle tournure
Beneficiaire

Besoin fait vieille trotter

Bete
Bete noire

Betise

Bevue

Bien-aime

Bien attaque, biende fendu

Bien perdu bien connu

Bienseance
Bijou

Billet doux
Billets d'etat

Bise

Bizarre
Blase

Bois ont oreilles et champs
ont oeillets

Bon ami

Bonbon

Bon bourgeois

A beautiful woman; beautiful
Refined literature
Symmetry ; shapeliness

A person obtaining a bene-
fit ; beneficiary

Need makes the old wo-
man trot. Needs must
when the Devil drives

A beast ; a stupid person

Lit. black beast ; one
especially disliked

Gross folly ; nonsense

A blunder ; a false step

Well-loved

Well matched. Set a
thief to catch a thief

Once lost, then prized.
We never know the
worth of water till the
well is dry

Good manners

A jewel ; a treasure

A love-letter

Government paper ; bank
notes

A north-east wind ; a fresh
breeze

Odd

Used up, worn out

Woods have ears and
fields have eyes. The
very walls have ears

A good friend

A sweetmeat

A substantial citizen ; a
comfortable tradesman

158 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Bon diable

Bon gre, mal gre

Bonheur

Bonhomie

Bonhomie

Bon jour, bonne oeuvre

Bon marche tire 1 'argent

hors de la bourse
Bon mot
Bonne
Bonne bete

Bonne bouche
Bonne et belle assez

Bonne foi

Bonne la maille qui sauve
le denier

Bonnet de nuit
Bonnet rouge

Bonne vie bonne fin

Bon pays, mauvais chemin

Bon poete, mauvais homme

A jolly good fellow
Willing or unwilling
Good luck
Good-natured simplicity

Good nature ; easy temper ;

credulity
The better the day, the

better the deed
A good bargain draws the

money out of the purse
A pun, a witty expression
A nurse-maid

A good-natured stupid

creature
A delicate bit, a choice

morsel
Good and handsome

enough

Good faith ; plain dealing
It is a good halfpenny

that saves a penny.

Spend a penny, save a

groat. A penny saved

is a penny gained
A nightcap
The cap of liberty; lit. the

red cap
A good life makes a good

end (a happy death)
A good country, a bad

road. The worse for the

rider, the better for the

bider
A good poet, a bad man.

The better workman, the

worse husband

French Section.

Bon soir
Bon ton
Bon vivant

Bon voyage

Bouche a feu

Bourgeois

Bourgeoisie

Bourse
Boutade

Boutez en avant

Bref

Brevet

Brevete

Brigue

Brisons la !

Brochure

Brouillerie

Bruit ; rumeur

Bruler le pave

Brusque

Brusquerie

Bureau (pi. bureaux)

Bureaucratie

Bureau de conciliation

journey, or

of citizens

a cock-
a wild

Good evening

The height of fashion

A good liver ; a jolly com-
panion

A pleasant
voyage

A field piece

A citizen

The body
burgesses

The exchange

A whim ; a freak
and-bull story
goose chase

Push forward

In short

Patent ; licence

Patented

Indirect means
cabal

That's enough of it !

A pamphlet

Falling out ; state of vari-
ance ; enmity ; castts belli

Rumour

To rush along

Abrupt ; blunt

Rudeness

A (public) office

Bureaucracy ; the undue
influence of the perma-
nent officials in the
administration

The conciliation com-
mittee ; a committee for
settling disputes

intrigue ;

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Bureau de la guerre
Cadastre

Cabotage

Camaraderie

Canaille

Canard

Cap-a-pie

Caresser sa marotte

Carte

Carte blanche

Carte de visite
Carte du pays
Cartel

Car tel est notre plaisir

Catalogue raisonne

Causeries
Causes celebres

Ce gar9on ne vaut pas le

pain qu'il mange
Cela arrive comme maree

en careme

Cela me donne la chair de

poule
Cela n'est pas de mon bail

The war office

A register of the survey of
lands

Jolting ; chaos

Good fellowship

The rabble

A false story

From head to foot

To ride 'one's hobby-horse

A card, a bill of fare

A blank sheet of paper ;
full powers

A small photographic por-
trait

A rough sketch ; a bird's
eye view

A challenge ; an agree-
ment between belligerent
states for an exchange of
prisoners, &c.

For such is our pleasure.
The justification of des-
potic acts

A catalogue with illus-
trations or notices

Familiar talk ; chat

Celebrated trials in the
law courts

That boy is not worth his
salt

That comes like fish in
Lent ; in the nick of
time

That makes my flesh creep

That is no affair of mine ;
I am not responsible for

that

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161

Cela saute aux yeux

Cela sert a faire bouillir la

marmite
Cela tombe bien
Cela va sans dire
Cela viendra

Celui-la gouverne bien mal
le miel, qui n'en goute,
et ses doigts n'en leche

Celui-la cherche toujours

midi a quatorze heures
Celui qui nedit rien consent
Ce manage est sur le tapis
Ce monde est plein de fous
Ce n'est pas la mer a boire

Ce n'est que le premier pas

qui coute
Certaines gens trouvent a

redire a tout propos

Certaines personnes Sont

nees coiffees
Ces deux tableaux font

pendant
Ces fabricants sont hors de

pair

C'est a dire
C'est a moi a faire les cartes

C'est a pen pres le meme

That tells its own tale

That helps to make the
pot boil

That is lucky

That's understood

That will come (happen
one day). All in good
time

He is a bad manager who
tastes not the honey and
licks his fingers. It is a
poor cook that cannot
lick his own fingers.
Muzzle not the ox that
treadeth out the corn

That fellow is always too
late

Silence gives consent

That wedding is talked of

The world is full of fools

It is not a mountain to

remove
To take the bull by the

horns
Some people find fault on

every occasion

Some are born with silver

spoons in their mouths
Those two pictures match

Those manufacturers are

unrivalled
That is to say ; namely

It's my turn to shuffle the

cards
It's about the same thing

L

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C'est autant de gagne
C'est bien le cas de le dire
C'est bonnet blanc et blanc
bonnet

C'est clair coninie deux et

deux font quatre
C'est de 1'argent en barre
C'est de 1'hebreu pour lui
C'est du ble en grenier

C'est egal

C'est en fait de lui

C'est la mouche du coche

C'est la que le bat le

blesse
C'est le fils de la poule

blanche
C'est le mot de 1' enigme

C'est le refrain de la

ballade
C'est son affaire

C'est son cheval de ba-

taille
C'est un balai neuf, il fait

balai neuf
C'est un bon parti

C'est un chevalier d'in-

dustrie
C'est une autre chose

C'est une autre paire de

manches
C'est une bonne fotirchette

That is so much to the good
You may indeed say so
There are six of the one

and half a dozen of the

other
It is as plain as a pike-staff

It is as good as ready money

That's Greek to him

It is as good as money in

one's pocket ; (lit. wheat

in one's granary)
No matter ; it is all one
All is over with him
He's like the fly on the

coach wheel
That's where the shoe

pinches
He was born with a silver

spoon in his mouth
It is the (key-)word of the

riddle
The old story over again

Leave that to her

That is his forte, his strong
point (lit. his war-horse)
New brooms sweep clean

She is a good match
He is an adventurer

It is quite a different thing
That's quite another thing

He is a keen guest

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C'est une bonne lieue au

has mot

C'est une fort rnauvaise tete
C'est une vraie aubaine
C'est un fin matois ,
C'est un homme qui ne sait

pas vivre

C'est un opera tres couru
C'est un poeme plein de

verve
C'est un sot a vingt-quatre

carats

C'est un sot en trois lettres

C'est un vieux routier —

defiez-vous-en !
C'est un vrai homme de

bien

C'est votre affaire
C'etait a qui n'irait pas
Get habit a bonne fa?on
Cette demoiselle a la vue

basse
Cette histoire est vieille

comme les rues
Cette propriete sera mise

aux encheres
Ceux qui parlentbeaucoup,

ne disent jamais rein

Chacun a sa manie (or sa

marotte)

Chacun a son gout
Chacun cherche son sem-

blable

It's at the very least three

miles off
He is a sad dog
It is quite a god-send
He's a knowing card
He is an ill-mannered man

This opera is very popular
It is a spirited poem

He is a fool of twenty-four

carats ; an unalloyed,

absolute fool
He is a fool to speak so

plainly
He is an old bud — beware

of him!
He is a very honest man

That's your business
None of them will go
This coat is well made
That young lady is short

sighted
That tale is as old as Adam

That estate will be sold by

auction
People that talk much

never say anything ;

great talkers seldom say

anything worth hearing
Everyone has his hobby

Everyone to his taste
Each one seeks his like ;
like draws to like

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Chacun ira au moulin avec
son propre sac -»

Chacun paie son ecot
Chacun porte sa croix

Chamade
Champ clos
Champs- Ely sees

Changer de note
Changer son cheval borgne
pour un aveugle

Chansons a boire
Chapeau bas !
Chapelle ardente

Chaque chose a son temps

Chaque oiseau trouve son
nid beau

Chaque pays chaque mode ;

(or, a sa guise)
Char-a-bancs
Charbonnier est maitre

chez soi
Charge d'affaires

go to
his own

Everyone must

the mill with

sack. Let every tub stand

on its own bottom. Every

herring must hang by its

own head
Each one pays his own

score
Everyone bears his cross ;

none knows the weight

of another's burden
A parley

The lists (lit. closed field)
Elysian fields ; a beau-

tiful park in Paris
To turn over a new leaf
To exchange a one-eyed

horse for a blind one ; to

change for the worse
Drinking-songs
Hats off!
The place where a dead

body lies in state ; (lit.

a burning chapel ; from

the great number of wax

lights)
To everything there is a

season
Every bird thinks its own

nest handsome. Noplace

like home
So many countries so man}'

customs

A waggonette ; pleasure-car
An Englishman's house is

his castle
One entrusted with state

affairs at a foreign court

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Charlatan
Chasse-cousin

Chasser le bouc emissaire

Chateau

Chateaux en Espagne

Chat echaude craint 1'eau
froide

Chef de cuisine
Chef de police

Chef-d'ceuvre
Chemin faisant
Chere amie
Cheval de bataille

Chevalier
Chevalier d'industrie

Chose qui plait est a demi

vendue
Ci-devant
Claquer

Clique

Coiffeur

Coiffure

Comme deux gouttes d'eau

Comme il faut

A quack ; mountebank ;
humbug

Lit., Chase away cousin ;
anything fitted to drive
away poor relations and
other importunate per-
sons ; bad wine

To drive out the scapegoat

A castle

Castles in the air ; fanciful
plans

A scalded cat dreads cold
water. A burnt child
dreads the fire

The head or the chief cook

The head (chief) of the

police

A master-piece
By the way ; in passing
A dear friend ; a mistress
A war-horse ; the main

argument
A knight
A knight of industry ; one

who lives by fraud ;

a swindler ; a sharper
Pleasing ware is half sold

Formerly

One paid to applaud a per-
formance
A set, or party
A hairdresser
An ornamental head-dress
As like as two peas
In good taste

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Comme on fait son lit on

se couche
Commis

Commissaire de police
Commis voyageur
Commissionnaire

Compagnon de voyage
Comptoir
Concierge
Conciergerie

Confrere
Conge
Conge d'elire

Connaisseur
Conseil de famille

Conseil de prud'hommes

Conseiller d'etat

Contour

Contrecoup

Contre fortune bon coeur

As you make your bed so

you must lie on it
A clerk (in business)

A commissioner of police

A commercial traveller

A person commissioned
(especially to invite tra-
vellers to take up their
quarters at some hotel or
inn) ; a messenger

A fellow traveller

A counting-house

A door keeper

A door-keeper's lodge ; a
noted prison in Paris

A colleague

Discharge ; leave

Leave to elect (an ecclesi-
astic

A critical judge

A family council ; a com-
mission of lunacy

A council of wise men ; men
with special knowledge.
A mixed coun cil of master
tradesmen and workmen,
for the consideration of
disputes between masters
and men

Privy counsellor

The outline of a figure

In defiance of

A good heart against
fortune. Set a stout
heart to a stey (stift) brae
(hill). Nil desperandum.
Tu ne cede malis

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Contre-temps
Cordon

Cordon bleu
Cordon militaire
Cordon sanitaire

Corps d'armee
Corps diplomatique
Corps dramatique

Cortege

Corvee

Coterie

Coucher a la belle etoile
Couci-couci

Coudre le peau de renard
a celle du lion

Couleur de rose

Coup

Coup d'essai
Coup de grace
Coup de main
Coup de maitre

Coup de pied
Coup de plume
Coup de soleil
Coup d'etat

A mischance

A surrounding girdle of
troops, &c.

The ribbon worn by cooks

A military line(of exclusion)

A sanitary line (drawn
around an infected spot)

The body of an army

The diplomatic body

A dramatic body ; a com-
pany of players

A procession

Forced labour

A set (of acquaintances)
street that has no outlet

Sleep in the open air

No great catch ; so-so

To sew the fox's skin to
the lion's ; to supplement
strength and boldness
with cunning (or diplo-
macy). If the lion's skin
cannot, the fox's shall

Rose colour ; of flattering
or pleasing appearance

A stroke

A first essay ; attempt

A finishing stroke

An armed surprise

A master-stroke ; with
consummate skill

A kick

A literary attack; a satire
A sunstroke

A stroke of policy or of
violence in state affairs

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Coup de theatre
Coup d'oeil
Coupe

Coupon

Courage sans peur

Court plaisir long repentir

Coute que coute

Coute que coute je ferai

mon devoir
Craignez la honte
Creme de la creme. La

creme ; le dessus du

panier
Critique

Cuisine

Cul-de-sac

Cure

D'accord

Dame de comptoir

Dame d'honneur

Dames de la halle

Dans cette affaire je vous

donne carte blanche
De bonne grace
Debris

An unexpected event a

surprise
A quick glance of the eye ;

a twinkling
The front covered outside

part of the "diligence"

(or stage-coach)
A dividend warrant
Courage without fear
The evening's amusement

should bear the morning's

reflection

Let it cost what it may
At any cost I will do my

duty

Fear shame
Pink of perfection ; " The

glass of fashion and the

mould of form "
Criticism ; a piece of criti-
cism
The kitchen ; method of

cooking
The bottom of the bag ; a

blind alley
The incumbent of a church

living ; never a curate

(vicaire)

In harmony ; agreed
A counter-woman ; bar-
woman

A lady of honour
Market women
You can act as you please

in that affair
With a good grace
Fragments remaining ;

ruins

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Debut

Debutant

De bon augure

Decoiffer St. Pierre pour

coiffer St. Paul^
De fol juge breve sentence

Degage

De gaiete de cceur

De haute lutte

Dehors

Dejeuner

Dejeuner a la fourchette

De la main a la bouche se

perd souvent la soupe
De 1'audace, encore de

1'audace, toujours de

1'audace

De 1'eau benite de cour
De mal en pis
Demi-monde

Denouement

De nouveau seigneur nou-

velle mesnie
De par le roi
De petit vient on au grand

De pied en cap
Depot
Dernier
Dernier ressort
De semaine

The first appearance

One who makes a debut

Propitious

Rob Pefer to pay Paul

A foolish judge passes a

hasty sentence. A fool's

bolt is soon shot
Free ; untrammelled
From lightness of heart
By a violent struggle
Outside
A breakfast
A meat breakfast
There's man}' a slip 'twixt

the cup and the lip
Audacity, again audacity,

and always audacity

Shallow promises

From bad to worse

Half - and - half (dubious)

society

The end of a plot
New lords, new laws

By authority

From little we come to
great. Many littles make
a mickle. We must creep
before we walk

From head to foot

A storehouse

The last

A last resource

By the week

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Deshabille
Detour
De trop

Deux chiens ne s'accordent
point a un os

Deux yeux voient plus clair
qu'un

De vive voix

Devoir •

Dieu defend le droit
Dieu et mon droit
Dieu vous garde
Diners a la carte

Diseur de bons mots

Distingue

Distrait

Dites-moi, s'ilvous plait

Dites-vous cela pour rire

ou pour le bon ?
Divertissement
Donner prise sur soi
Donner tete baissee

Dos a dos
Double entente
Douceur
Doux yeux
Droit des gens

Droit et en avant

Undressed

A circuitous march

Too much ; in the way ;

one too many; something

too much
Two dogs never agree

about one bone. Two of a

trade seldom agree
Two eyes see more clearly

than one. Two heads are

better than one
Orally : by word of mouth ;

viva voce
Duty

God defends the right
God and my right
God keep you
Dinners according to the

bill of fare
A joker

Of aristocratic appearance
Absent-minded
Tell me, if you please
Do you say that in earnest

or in jest ?
Entertainment
To lay one's self open
Headstrong ; to go farther

and fare worse
Back to back
A double meaning
Sweetness ; a gift
Soft glances ; ogling
The law of nations ; inter-
national law
Right and forward

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Drole

Drole de corps

Du fort an faible

D'une mouche il fait un

elephant
D'une pierre fa ire deux

coups
Eau de vie
Echappe belle
Echelon

Eclaircissement

Eclat

Eclat de rire

Ecole militaire

Ecorcher les oreilles

Egalite

Eleve

Elite

Elle a fait des siennes

Elle a les yeux a fleur de

tete

Elle a tres bonne mine
Elle est continuellement

dans le monde
Elle est douee de beaucoup

de sang-froid
Elle est en butte aux

medisances des autres
Elle 1'a acheve tant bien

que mal

Elle 1'a fait par megarde
Elle m'a compris a demi-

mot

Droll ; funny

A droll fellow ; a punster

From the strong to the

weak ; one with another
He makes mountains of

mole-hills
To kill two birds with one

stone
Brandy

A narrow escape
An army in form like the

steps of a staircase ;•

marching in detached

groups

A clear explanation
Splendour ; brilliancy
A burst of laughter
A military school
To jar upon the nerves
Equality
A pupil

The best society
That's an old trick of hers
She has staring eyes

She looks very well

She goes out a great deal

She is endowed with great

self-possession
She is exposed to their

scandal
She finished it as best she

could

She did not do it on purpose
A hint was sufficient for

her

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Elle m'a pris a partie
Elle ne laisse pas de le

flatter

Elle paie de mine
Elle prend tout pour argent

comptant
Elles se ressemblaient

comme deux gouttes

d'eau

Elle trouvera a qui parler
Elle voit tout en noir
Elle voulait me temr tete
Eloge

Eloignement
Embarras de richesses

Embonpoint
Embouchure
Emeute
Eminemment

Employe

Empressement

En ami

En attendant

En avant !

En avez-vous a lui ?

En bloc

En bon train

Encore

En effet '

En famille

Enfans perdus

She took me to task

She continually flatters

him

She has a good appearance
She believes anything

They were as like as two
peas in a pod

She will find her match

She looks on the black side

She wanted to oppose me

Eulogium

Estrangement

A superabundance of

riches ; too many to

choose from
Stoutness of body
The mouth of a river
Insurrection ; riot
Eminently ; so as to be the

very ideal
A person employed by

another

Eagerness ; earnestness
As a friend
In the meantime
Forward ! advance
Are you angry with him ?
In the lump
In a fair way
Again

In effect ; just so
Unceremoniously
Lost children ; a forlorn

hope

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Enfant gate
Enfant terrible

Enfant trouve

Enfermer le loup dans la

bergerie
En fin
Enfin,jem'en laveles mains

Enfin, vous n'etes jamais

de trop
En flute

En foule

En grande tenue

En grande toilette

En habiles gens

En masse

En me voyant il m'a battu

froid
Ennui
En passant
En plein jour
En revanche
En route
Ensemble

En suivant la verite
Entente cordiale

Entr'acte
Entre deux feux
Entre deux vins
Entree

A spoiled child

A terrible child — one that
is apt to do or say some-
thing exceedingly ill-
timed and embarrassing

A foundling

To shut up the wolf in the
sheepfold

At last

Well, I shall wash my
hands of it

Anyhow, you are never in
the way

Armed with guns only on
the upper deck

In a crowd

In full dress

Full-dressed ; in full fig

Like able men

In a body

As soon as he saw me he
gave me the cold shoulder

Weariness ; spleen

In passing

In broad daylight

In return

On the way

Together ; the general effect

In following the truth

Friendly feeling ; com-
plete understanding

Between the acts

Between two fires

Half drunk

Freedom of access ; a
course of dishes

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Entre le marteau et 1'en-

clume
Entremets
Entre nous
Entrepot
En verite

Envoyez-le promerier
En y arrivant il a trouve

visage de bois
Epergne

Espionnage
Esprit de corps
Esquisse
Estrade
Etat-major

Etourderie

Etre au bout de son role

(or rouleau)
Etre comme 1'oiseau sur la

branche
Etre sans gene
Etre toujours par monts et

par vaux
Etre un sot fieffe
Etui

Exigeant
Expose

un

Fa$on de parler
Faire de 1'esprit
Faire d'une mouche
elephant

Between hammer and anvil

Dainty side dishes

Between ourselves

A warehouse

In truth

Pack him off

When he got there he found
the door shut

An ornamental stand for
the centre of a table

System of spies

Corporate feeling

A sketch

A raised stand

A number of officers form-
ing the general's council

Giddiness ; imprudence

To be at one's wits' end

A rolling stone gathers no

moss

To be free and easy
To be always on the move

To be a complete fool

A case for instruments

Troublesome

An exposition ; a concise

statement
Front of a building
Manner of speaking
To show off one's wit
To make an elephant of a

fly; to make a mountain

of a molehill

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Faire claquer son fouet
Faire 1'ecole buissonniere
Faire le diable a quatre

Faire mon devoir
Faire patte de velours
Faire sans dire
Faire ses choux gras
Faire venir 1'eau a la bouche
Faire voile a tout vent

Fait accompli

Fascine ; fagot

Faubourg

Faute de rnieux il se con-

tente de pain
Fauteuil
Faux pas
Femme (sole) celibataire ;

vieille fille
Femme de chambre
Femme (converts) mariee
Ferme modele (ornee)
Fete
Fete champetre

Feu de joie
Feuilleton

Fille de chambre

To take merit to oneself
To play the truant

To thunder at the top of

one's voice
To do my duty
To sham Abraham
To act unostentatiously
To bask in the sunshine
To make one's mouth water

To spread one's sail to

every wind
A thing accomplished ; an

accomplished fact
A fagot
A suburb
He put up with bread for

want of something better
An arm chair
A false step ; a mistake
A spinster ; an unmarried

woman
Chambermaid
A married woman
A model farm
A festival
An entertainment in the

open air ; a rural feast
A firing of guns in token of

joy ; a bonfire
A small leaf or fly sheet ;

the name given to the

novels appearing in

French newspapers
A chambermaid ; a lady's
maid

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Fille d'honneur
Flaneur
Fleur de lis

Flux de bouche; flux de

paroles
Flux de mots
Fondre en larmes
Fortune de la guerre
Fortune du pot
Fracas

Froides mains, chaud

amour
Frondeur

Gabelle

Gage d'amour

Gageure est la preuve des

sots

Gaiete de cceur
Gamin

Garde du corps

Garde mobile

Gardez bien

Gardez la foi

Gare a lui, c'est un mauvais

plaisant
Gaucherie
Gendarmerie
Gendarmes

Gens de condition

A lady of honour

A lounger

Blossom of the lily ; the

arms of the French

monarchy
A flow of words ; garrulity

To spin a long yarn

To cry one's eyes out

The fortune of war

Pot-luck

A disturbance ; a noisy
quarrel

A cold hand and warm
heart

A declaimer against the
existing administration

The salt tax

A love pledge

A wager is a fool's argu-
ment

Flow of spirits

A street arab

A youth ; a waiter

Life-guardsman ; a body-
guard

The French militia

Take care

Keep faith

Take care, he likes practical
jokes

Awkwardness; vulgarity

The armed police force

Men - at - arms ; mounted
police

People of rank

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177

Gens d'eglise
Gens de guerre
Gens de lettres
Gens de meme famille
Gens de pen

Gentilhomme

Gibier de potence

Gite

Glacis

Gobemouches

Gourmand

Gout

Goutte a goutte

Grand bien vous fasse !

Grand diseur n'est pas

grand faiseur
Grandes promesses et peu

d'effets

Grand et bon
Grand parure
Grasse panse, maigre cer-

velle
Grippe
Grisette

Grosse tete, peu de sens
Guerre a mort
Guerre a outrance
Guet-a-pens
Habitue

Hardi gagneur, hardi man-
geur

Churchmen

Military men

Literary men

Birds of a feather

Men of a low order ; un-
important men

A gentleman

A gaol bird

Gist (of a case)

A slope ; earthwork

Bumpkins

A glutton

Taste

Drop by drop

Much good may it do you !

Great talkers are no great
doers

Great promises and little
deeds ; great cry and
little wool

Great and good

Full dress

A fat belly, a lean brain

An influenza

A pretty young work- wo-
man

Great head and little sense
War till death
War to the knife
Ambush

An habitual frequenter (of

a place)
Quick at meat, quick at

work

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Haricot

Hauteur

Haut gout

Haut ton

Hectare

Heureux commencement

est la moitie de 1'oeuvre
Heureux qui peut vivre de

ses rentes
Homme de robe
Homme d'esprit
Homme d'etat
Honi soit qui mal y pense

Honnetes gens
Hors de combat

Hors la loi
Hotel de ville
Hotel Dieu

Ici on parle Fran£ais

Idee fixe

Jl a affaire a forte partie

II a beau parler on ne

1'ecoute pas
II a des moyens
II a epouse une bonne femme

de menage
II a evente la meche
II a fait main basse sur tout
II a fallu battre en retraite
11 aime bien d'avoir les

coudees franches

The kidney bean ; a kind

of ragout

Haughtiness ; pride
High flavour
High tone

2-47 English acres of land
Well begun is half done

Happy is he who has a
competency

A gownsman

A man of talent, or of wit

A statesman

Evil be to him who evil
thinks

Honest people

Disabled; out of condition
to fight

Outlawed

A town hall

A house of God ; an hos-
pital

French is spoken here

A fixed idea

He has a rough customer
to deal with

He talks in vain, no one
listens

He's a clever fellow

His wife is a good manager

He got wind of it
He pounced on everything
They were obliged to retreat
He likes to be perfectly free

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II a 1'airde ne pasy toucher
II a la mer a boire
II a le diable au corps
II a les yeux cernes

II a le vin mauvais

II a 1'oeil au guet

II a mange son pain blanc

le premier
II a mis son bonnet de

travers aujourd'hui
II a montre beaucoup

d'humeur
II a preche d'abondance

II a pris mes paroles a con-

tre sens
II a pris ses jambes a son

con
II a pris son courage a deux

mains
II a remue ciel et terre pour

y parvenir
II a une dent contre lui

Ilavait son discours sur le

bout du doigt
II brode tres-bien
II chasse de race

11 debite ses propos a tout

bout de champ
II depense beaucoup en

menus plaisirs
II ecrit a batons rompus
II en a fait une bonne affaire

He looks very demure
He has an impossible task
The devil is in him

He looks dark round the

eyes
He is quarrelsome in his

cups

He is on the look out
His best days are passed

He got out of bed the wrong

side this morning
He showed a good deal of

temper
He preached extempore

He took what I said in the

wrong light
He made off

He screwed his courage to

the sticking point
He moved heaven and

earth to succeed
He owes me a grudge

He knew his speech by

heart

He can tell a good tale
He's a chip of the old block

He is always thrusting his

remarks forward
He spends a great deal in

trifles
He writes by fits and starts

That was good business for
him

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II en fait ses choux gras

II en fait toujours faire a

sa guise
II en rabattra de sa premiere

demande
II en sait long
II est bon de faire de

necessite vertu
II est bon de parler, et

meilleur de se taire

II est comme une poule

mouillee

II est coutumier du fait
II est marque a 1'A
II est mort crible de dettes

II est parti prenant la clef

des champs
II est rendu
II est sain de se lever de

bonne heure
II est sujet a caution

II est tres comme il faut

II est tres maniere

II est venu a point nomme

II etait en train de sortir
II etait grippe
II etait tres-obere

II fait beau temps

He makes his cabbages fat

by it. He feathers his

nest by it
He always wants to go his

own road
He will take something less

than he asked
He's a knowing card
It is wise to make a virtue

of necessity
It is good to speak, but it

is better to be silent.

Speech is silvern, silence

is golden
He is a perfect stupid

He is an old hand at it

He stands Ai

He was over head and ears

in debt when he died
He made off

He is quite done up
Early rising is healthy

You must discount what

he says

He is a perfect gentleman
He is very stiff

He came in the nick of

time

He was just going out
He had caught cold
He was over head and ears

in debt
It is fine (weather)

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181

II fait celui qui n'entend

pas
II fait cher vivre dans la

capitale
II fait fleche de tout bois

II fallait me tenir a quatre

pour ne pas rire
II faudra bien en passer

par la
II faut attendre le boiteux

II faut de 1'argent

II faut le faire bon gre mal

gre
II faut precher d'exemple

II faut prendre la balle au

bond
II fit un vent a ecorner un

bceuf

II gelait a pierre fendre
II lui a mis martel en tete

II m'a coupe 1'herbe sous le

pied
II m'a debite tout cela a

brule-pourpoint
II m'a donne une poignee

de main

II m'a mis au pied du mur
II m'a pousse a bout
II m'a pris au depourvu
II m'a ri au nez
II me faut coucher sur la

dure

He plays the deaf man

Living is expensive in the

metroplis
He turns everything to

account
I did my best not to laugh

We must put up with it

It is necessary to wait for
the lame man ; wait for
the truth

Money is wanting
You are bound to do it

Example is better than

precept
Take time by the forelock

The wind was enough to
shave your eyebrows

It froze very hard

He tormented him to
death

He cut the ground from
under my feet

All that he told me point-
blank

He shook hands with me

He got me into a corner
He exasperated me
He took me unawares
He laughed in my face
My lodging is on the cold
cold ground

1 82 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

II me traita de Turc a

Maure
II m'obeissait au doigt et a

1'ceil
II n'a pas invente la poudre

11 n'a pas souffle mot de

notre entrevue
II n'a que faire de poesie
II ne faut jamais defier un

fou
II ne faut jamais depasser

la mesure
II ne faut pas regarder de

si pres dans ces affaires
II ne faut pas remplir

ses devoirs comme par

maniere d'acquit
II n'entend jamais raillerie
II ne peut plus y tenir
II ne restait plus que le nid
II ne s'agit pas de tout cela

II ne sait sur quel pied

danser
II n'est d'heureux que qui

croit 1'etre

II n'est pas aussi diable

qu'il est noir
II n'est rien moins qu'un

avare

II n'est sauce que d'appetit
II n'y a pas a s'y tromper

cela saute aux yeux

He used me abominably

He was always at my beck
and call

He was not the inventor of
gunpowder ; he is no
conjuror ; he will never
set the Thames on fire

He did not say a single
word about our interview

Poetry is not his forte

Never bid defiance to a
fool

Never o'erstep the bounds

In such matters you must
noc be so particular

Duty must not be done as
a mere matter of form

He can never take a joke
He can hold out no longer
The bird had flown
That's not the question at

all
He's at his wit's end

The only happy man is
he who thinks himself
happy

The devil is not so black
as he is painted

He is anything but a
miser

Hunger is the best sauce

There is positively no mis-
taking that

French Section.

'83

II n'y a pas de petit chez soi
li n'y a pas de quoi rire

II n'y a pas la de quoi

fouetter un chat
II n'y a pire eau que 1'eau

qui dort
II n'y a que le premier pas

qui coute
II n'y va pas par quatre

chemins
II parla bien a propos

II parle a tout bout de

champ
II parle en connaissance

de cause
II regarde 1'afFaire a un tout

autre point de vue

II retourna trempe comme

une soupe
II savait son discours sur

le bout du doigt
Us courent sur ses brisees

Us disputent a tout propos

II se noyerait dans une

goutte d'eau
Us en riaient sous cape

Us en sont venusaux mains
II s'en prend toujours a inoi
II sert de risee a toute

la societe

II s'est brule la cervelle
Us etaient a couteaux tires

There's no place like home
That's no laughing matter
It is a peccadillo

Still waters run deep

It is only the first step that
gives trouble (lit. costs)

He goes straight to the
point

He spoke most opportunely

He is always magging

He knows what he is

talking about
He considers the matter

from quite a different

point of view
He came back wet through

He knew his speech by
heart

They are treading on his
heels

They dispute about every-
thing

To be a penny wise and a
pound foolish

They laughed in their
sleeve at it

They came to fisticuffs

He always blames me

He is the butt of the
whole company

He blew his brains out

They were at drawn daggers

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Us etaient bien certaine-
ment d'intelligence

Us etaient ruines de fond

en comble

Us firent bonne chere
Us 1'ont fait a mon insu

Us marchent bon train
Us n'en peut mais

Us n'eri pouvaient plus de
fatigue et de soif

Us ne se sentaient pas de
satisfaction

Us nous ont donne le
change

Ilss'accordent commechien
et chat

Us se firent force compli-
ments

Us se sont brouilles

Us se voient de loin en loin

Us sont a bout de leurs

forces
Us voulaient manager la

chevre et le chou

II tient table ouverte

toujours
II tondrait un reuf

II veut toujours s'en faire

accroire
Us vont se faire la courte

echelle

There is no doubt they
were accomplices

They were utterly im-
poverished
They fared sumptuously

They did it unbeknown

to me
They are getting on fast

He can't do anything in

the matter
They were worn out with

fatigue and thirst

They were overjoyed
They gave us the slip

They agree like dog and

cat
They complimented each

other highly
They have quarrelled with

each other
They see each other from

time to time
They are at their wits'

end
They wished to run with

the hare and hunt with

the hounds
He always keeps open

house
He would skin a flint

He is always putting him-
self forward

They mean to give one
another a turn

French Section.

185

II vous dira au juste ce que

cela coutera
II y a plus de fous ache-

teurs que de fous ven-

deurs
II y a quelque anguille sous

roche
II y a relache trois fois

par semaine
Impuissant
Insouciance
J'accepte mais a charge de

revanche

Jacquerie

J'ai bonne cause

J'ai cede a mon corps
defendant

J'ai du faire le pied degrue
toute la journee

J'ai eu mal au coeur pen-
dant la traversee

J'ai loue une maison a tres-
bon compte

J'ai maille a partir avec
vous

J'ai passe une nuit blanche

J'ai |saute 1'escalier quatre
a quatre

Jamais en arriere

Jardin des plantes

Je 1'accompagnerai malgre

lui

Jel'ai pris a condition
Je le reconnais bien la !

He will tell you exactly

what it will cost
There are more fools

among buyers than

among sellers
Theie's something hidden

The theatre is closed
three times a week

Powerless

Coolness ; unconcern

I will accept on condition
that I will repay you
another time

A revolt of (French) pea-
sants (in 1358)

I have a good cause

I gave way against my
will

I had to wait about all day

I was sick when crossing

I have hired a very cheap

house
I have a bone to pick with

you

I passed a sleepless night
I bolted upstairs

Never behind

A botanical garden

I wTill go with him in spite

of his unwillingness
I had it on approval
That's just like him !

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Je lui donnerais des points

Je lui en veux pour sa ne-
gligence
J'en ai bien vu d'autres

J'en aurais leve la main
Je n'avais ni sou ni maille
Je n'en cherche qu'un
Je ne peux pas en revenir
Je ne peux pas etre au four

et au moulin
Je ne sais quoi
Je n'etais pas bien dans

mon assiette
Je ne veux pas qu'il en soit

quitte a si bon compte
Je n'oublierai jamais
Je pense

Je peux parler en connais-

sance de cause
Je saurai en tirer parti

Je suis pret
Jet d'eau

Jeter le manche apres la

cognee
Jeu de mots
Jeu d'esprit
Jeu de theatre
Je vais lui dire son fait

Je viendrai mais contre

creur
Je vis d'espoir

I am more than a match

for him
I owe him one for his

neglect
I have gone through worse

than that

I could have sworn to it
I was quite cleared out
I seek but for one
I can't get over my surprise
I cannot be in two places

at one time
I know not what
I did not feel quite at

ease
He shan't get oft so easily

as that

I shall never forget
I think

I can speak from experi-
ence of it

I shall be able to turn it to
account

I am ready

A fountain ; a water-spout

To throw the handle after

the hatchet
A play upon words
A witticism
Stage-trick, or attitude

I shall give him a piece of

my mind
I will come, but against

my wish
I live in hope

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187

Je vous demande bien par-
don. II n'y a pas de quoi

Je vous paierai au fur et a
mesuredevotre ouvrage

Je vous sais gre de me
1'avoir dit

Joli

Jour de fete

Journal des debats

Juste milieu

J'y suis pour mon cout
La bataille se fit en rase

campagne
La beaute sans vertu est

une fleur Sans parfum
La bonne fortune, et la

mauvaise, sont neces-

saires a I'homme pour le

rendre habile
La carriere ouverte aux

talents
Lachete
La faim chasse le loup du

bois

L'affaire se traita de gre

a gre
La fenetre donne sur la

cour interieure
La fin couronne 1'oeuvre
La grande nation
La grande sagesse de

1'honime consiste a con-

naitre ses folies

I really beg your pardon.

Don't mention it
I'll pay you as you go on

I am much obliged to you
for telling me

Pretty, attractive

A fete day

The journal of the (Parlia-
mentary) debates

The happy or golden
medium

I paid dear for it

The battle was fought in
the open country

Beauty without virtue is
a flower without perfume

Good and bad fortune are
necessary to a man in
order to develop his
character

The career open to talent

Cowardice ; laxity
Famine drives the wolf

from the wood ; hunger

breaks through stone

walls
They settled the matter by

themselves
The window looks on to

the inner courtyard
All's well that ends well
The great nation (France)
The great wisdom of man

consists in knowing his

follies

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Laisser-aller

Laisser faire
Laissez-nous faire
La langue lui a fourche
La maladie sans maladie ;

hypocondrie

La Medecine expectante
L'amour et la fumee ne

peuvent se cacher
L'amour propre est le plus

grand de tousles flatteurs
La nuit etait si sombre

qu'il fallait marcher a
tatons
La nuit porte conseil

La patience est amere, mais

son fruit est doux
La pelle qui se moque du

fourgon
La philosophic, qui nous

promet de nous rendre

heureux, nous trompe
La propriete est un vol
L'argent est un bon servi-

teur, et un mechant

maitre

La ttite montee
La verite est cachee au

fond du puits
Laver la tfite
La vertu est la seule

noblesse
L'eau en vient a la bouche

To let (matters) go (on as

they will)

Letthingstake their course
Let us alone
He made a lapsus-lingui
Disease without disease ;

hypochondria
At the eleventh hour
Love and smoke cannot be

concealed
Self-love is the greatest

of all flatterers
The night was so dark that

we had to grope our way

Night gives counsel. Take
counsel with^our pillow.
Sleep on it

Patience is bitter, but its
fruit is sweet

The pot calling the kettle
black

Philosophy, which pro-
mises to make us happy,
deceives us

Property is robbery

Money is a good servant,
and (but) a bad master

Excited ; hot-headed
Truth lies hidden at the

bottom of the well
To bring to book
Vertue is the only true

nobility
That makes one's mouth

water

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189

Le beau monde
Le bleu jure avec le vert
Le bon de 1'histoire
Le bon temps viendra

Le bureau et la' fabrique

sont de plain-pied
Le capitaine devait an tiers

et au quart

Le cerf etait aux abois *
Le chant du cygne
Le chateau fut detruit de

fond en comble
Le commencement de la fin
Le cout en ote le gout

Le cygne noir

Le diable boiteux

Le diner est cuit a point

Le droit du plus fort

L'educationest maintenant
a la portee de tous

Le gouvernement Ameri-
cain fut fait a 1'instar du
gouvernment Anglais

Le grand ceuvre

Le jeu n'en vaut pas la

chandelle
Le mieux est 1' ennemi du

bien
Le moineau en la main

vaut mieux que 1'oie qui

vole

The fashionable world
Blue clashes with green
The cream of the story
There is a good time

coming
The office and the factory

are on the same floor
The captain was over head

and ears in debt
The stag was at bay
A funeral dirge
The castle was utterly

sacked and destroyed
The turning point
The cost takes away the

taste

The pink of perfection
The devil on two sticks
The dinner is done to a T
Might is right ; to take the

law into one's own hands
Education is now within the

reach of all
The American government

was modelled on the

English

The great work ; the phi-
losopher's stone
The game is not worth the

candle
Better is the enemy of well

A sparrow in the hand is
better than a goose on
the wing. A bird in the
hand is worth two in the
bush

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Le mot de 1'enigme

Le mot pour rire

L' Empire c'est la paix

L' Empire c'est la guerre

L'empire des lettres

L'ennemi etait sur le qui
vive

Le palais de la verite

Le petit caporal

Le petit monde

Le peuple demandait ven-
geance a cor ct a cri

Le pot au lait

Le roi et 1'etat

Le roi le veut

Le roi s'en avisera

Les adulateurs font leurs
orges en pillant les autres

Les affaires font les horn-"
mes

Le sage entend ademi mot

Le savoir-faire
Le savoir-vivre
Les bon comptes fom les

bons amis
Les bras croises
Les bras-me sont tombesa

cette nouvelle
Les cavaliers couraient a

bride abattue
Les cordonniers sont tou-

jours les plus mal

chausses
Les doux yeux

The key of the mystery
The cream of the jest
The Empire is Peace
The Empire is War
The republic of letters
The enemy was on the

alert

To speak one's mind
The little corporal
The lower classes
The people howled for

vengeance

Stretch of imagination
The king and the state
The king wills it
The king will consider the

matter
Flatterers feather their nest

by robbing others
Business makes men

The wise man understands

with half a word
Tact

Knowledge of the world
Short reckonings make

long friends
With folded arms ; idle
The news took me aback

The horseman rode with
bloody spurs

The shoemaker's wife and
the farmer's horse are
always the worst shod

Soft glances

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191

Les eaux sont basses chez

lui

Les eniants tienent deleurs
parents en general

Les extremes se touchent

Les femnies distinguees se
mettent avec bon gout

Les femmes sont souvent
plus sensibles que sensees

Les filles atteignent leur

majorite plus tot que les

gardens
Les fous font les festins, et

les sages les mangent
Les fous inventent les

modes, et les sages les

suivent
Les greves font beaucoup

de tort aux ouvriers
Les hommes prechent

chacun pour son saint
Les larmes aux yeux
Les murailles ont des

oreilles
L'esperance est le songe

d'un homme eveille
Les petits ruisseaux font

les grandes rivieres

Les plaisirs fatiguent a la

longue
Les plaisirs sont amers

sitot qu'on en abuse
Le style c'est 1'homme
L'etat c'est moi !

The waters are low with
him ; he is at low water
He is hard up

Children generally resem-
ble their parents

Extremes meet

Ladies are distinguished by
their good taste in dress

Women are frequently
more sensitive than sensi-
ble

Girls come of age sooner
than boys

Fools make feasts, and wise

men eat them
Fools invent fashions, and

wise folk follow them

Stikes injure the workmen

Men all have an ' eye to

their own interest
In the melting mood
Walls have ears

Hope is the dream of a
waking man

The small streams make
the great rivers. Many
a mickle makes a muckle

Even pleasures pall

Pleasures become bitter as
soon as they are abused
The style is the man
The state ! I am the state !

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Le temps present est gros

de 1'avenir
Le tout ensemble

Le travail eloigne de nous
trois grands maux, 1'en-
nui, le vice, et le besoin

Lettre de cachet

Le vaisseau etait a deux
doigts de sa perte

Le vrai n'est pas toujours
vraisemblable

L'habit ne fait pas le moine

L'homme est toujours 1'en-

fant, et 1'enfant toujours

1'homme

L'homme necessaire
L'homme propose, et Dieu

dispose
L'hypocrisie est un hom-

mage que le vice rend a

la vertu
Liaison
Litterateur
Livraison

Locale

Loin des yeux loin du cceur

L'oisivete est la mere de

tons les vices
Loyal devoir
Loyaute m'oblige
Loyaute n'a honte
Lune de miel

The present time is big

with the future
The effect of the whole ;

the general effect
Labour rids us of three

great evils — irksomeness,

vice, and need
A warrant of arrest
The vessel was all but lost

The true is not always

probable. Truth is

stranger than fiction
The frock doesn't make the

monk
The man is always the

child, and the child is

always the man
The right man
Man proposes, and God

disposes
Hypocrisy is a homage

which vice renders to

virtue

An illicit connection
A literary man
Part of a book published

in series
Place ; premises
Out of sight out of mind
Satan finds some mischief

still for idle hands to do
Loyal duty
Loyalty binds me
Loyalty has no shame
Honey-moon

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193

Ma foi

Maintiens le droit
Maison d'arret
Maison de campagne
Maison de force

Maison de sante
Maison de ville
Maitre des hautes-oeuvres
Maitre d'hotel
Malades imaginaires

Maladie du pays
Maladresse

Mai a propos
Mai de mer
Malgre
Malgre nous
Malgre soi

Malheur ne vient jamais

seul

Malle-poste
Manege
Manger son ble en herbe

Marchandise, qui plait, est

a demi vendue
Marcher bras dessus bras

dessous
Marie ton fils quand tu

voudras, mais ta fille

quand tu pourras
Mauvaise honte

My faith

Maintain the right

House of custody ; prison

A country seat

House of correction ; bride-
well

Lunatic asylum

The town hall

Master of the high works

Steward

People that fancy them-
selves ill ; hypochon-
driacs

Home-sickness

Want of tact ; awkward-
ness

Ill-timed ; out of place

Sea-sickness

Notwithstanding

In spite of us

In spite of one's self;
against the grain

Misfortunes never come
alone

The mail-coach ; the mail

The art of horsemanship

To burn the candle at both
ends

Goods that please are half
sold

To walk arm in arm

Marry your son when you
will, and your daughter
when you can

False shame

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Mauvais gout

Mauvais sujet

Mauvais ton

Medecin, gueris-toi toi-

meme

Medecin tant pis
Melange

Melee
Menage

Mener a la lisiere ; mener
en laisse ; mener par le
nez

Menu

Mesalliance

Mettre de 1'eau dans son

vin
Mettre la charrue devant

les bosufs
Mettre un document au net

Mieux vauttard que jamais
Mise en scene

Moire antique

Montrer le bout de 1'oreille

Morceau

Morgue

Mot a mot

Mot du guet ; mot de passe

Mots d'usage

Mousseline de laine

N,ager entre deux eaux

Naivete

Bad taste

A rascal

Vulgarity

Physician, heal thyself

A hypochondriac

A light entertainment of

a mixed character
A disorderly fight
Household ; housekeeping ;

economy ; sparingness
To lead by the nose

The bill of fare

Marriage with a person of
inferior rank

To pour oil on troubled
waters

To put the cart before tin-
horse

To make a fair copy of ;i
document

Better late than never

The getting up of a dra-
matic piece

Watered silk

The ass with the lion's skin

A small piece

A mortuary

Word for word

The watchword

Words in common use

A thin woollen material

To play fast and loose

Ingenuousness ; innocence

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Ne battre que d'une aile

Ne (fern. Nee)

Neglige

Ne manquez jamais

votre parole
Ne pour la digestion

Ne prends pas si facilement

la mouche
Ne prenez pas ce que je

dis au pied de la lettre
Ne remettez pas a demain

ce que vous pouvez faire

aujourd'hui
Ne restez jamais entre deux

airs
Ne reveillez pas le chat qui

dort
N'est-il pas temps de plier

bagage ?
Xe vendez jamais la peau

de 1'ours avant de 1'avoir

mis par terre
Ne vous faites pas tirer

1'oreille
Niaiseries

Ni 1'un ni 1'autre
N'importe
Noblesse oblige

To while away one's time

Born

Undress

Never break a promise

Born merely for the purpose
of digestion. A social
drone. Fruges consu-
mere nati

Don't be so short tempered

Don't take what I say

literally
Do not put offt ill to-morrow

what you can do to-day

Never stay in a draught

Let well alone ; keep on

the right road
Is it not time to be off ?

Never reckon your chickens
before they are hatched

Don't be so unwilling

Follies, fooleries, absurdi-
ties, sillinesses, nonsense

Neither the one nor the
other

No matter ; it does not
signify ; never mind

Nobility obliges (persons
that posess it to act
nobly); we owe some-
thing to ourselves (our
own self-respect)

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Nom de guerre

Nom de plume

Nonchalance

Nonpareil

Nos besoins sont nos forces

Notre-Dame

N'oubliez pas
Nourriture passe nature

Nous avons change tout
cela

Nous croyons a propos de

le quitter
Nous en etions quittes pour

la peur
Nous etions parmi les gros

bonnets de 1'endroit
Nous le forcerons a mettre

les pouces
Nous ne savons ce que c'est

que bonheur ou malheur

absolu

Noussommesquitteaquitte
Nous verrons
Nous y mettrons bon ordre

Nuance

Nul bien sans peine

Assumed name; cognomen

An assumed literary name

Carelessness ; indifference

Unequalled

Ourwants are our strength.
Necessity is the mother
of invention

Our Lady ; a term applied
in France to churches
dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. The Church of
Notre-Dame is the Ca-
thedral of Paris

Do not forget

Nurture passes beyond
nature. Birth is much,
but goodbreedingis more

We have changed all that ;
we are rid of those old-
fangled notions

We think it proper to leave
him

We got off with nothing
worse than a fright

We wrere amongst the dons
of the place

We will make him submit

We do not know what is
absolutely good or bad
fortune

Wre are quits

We shall see

We shall soon set that
straight

Shade (of colour, &c.)

No pains, no gains

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197

Occasions manquees
Octroi

CEil de boeuf

On commence par etre
dupe ; on finit par etre
fripon

On connait I'ami au besoin

On coupe les cheveux ras

aux forsats
On clit

On doit appeler tin chat

un chat
On en a vu bien d'autres

On est mieux seul qu'avec

un sot

On est un sot
On 1'a accueilli d'emblee
On 1'afait mourir a petit feu

On lui annonga sa mort de

but en blanc
On n'a jamais bon marche

de mauvaise marchandise

On n'auraitguere de plaisir,
si Ton ne se flattait point

On ne cherche point a
prouver la lumiere

On ne comprend rien a son
barbouillage

Favourable opportunities

missed
A tax on articles (for sale)

entering a town
A bull's eye

They begin by being fools
(dupes), and end in be-
coming knaves

A friend in need is a friend
indeed

Convicts have their hair
cropped

It is said ; a rumour

You should call a spade a

spade
We are used to that sort of

thing
One is better alone than

with a fool

General report is a fool
They welcomed him at once
He was killed by inches

They told her abruptly of

his death
Bad merchandise is never

a good bargain. Buy

cheap, buy dear
But little pleasure would

a man have if he did not

flatter himself
There is no need to prove

(the existence of) light

There is no understanding
his scrawls (rigmarole) ;
one cannot make head
or tail of them

198 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

On ne donne rien si liberale-

ment que ses conseils
On ne peut pas avoir le

drap et 1'argent
On ne peut pas avoir

toujours raison
On ne peut pas s'aviser de

tout
On ne saurait faire boire un

ane s'il n'a soif

On n'est jamais bien juste

a l'egard d'un rival
On n'est jamais si heureux,

ni si malheureux,qu'on se

['imagine
On perd tout le temps qu'on

peut mieux employer

On peut aisement se faire

trop valoir
On peut savoir a un sou

pres ce que cela coutera
On peut souvent faire d'une

pierre deux coups
On pourrait s'attirer une

bien mauvaise affaire
On pourra toujours payer

d'audace
On prend le peuple par les

oreilles, comme on prend

un pot par les anses
On prend souvent 1'indo-

lence pour la patience
On se fait cuisinier, mais

on est ne rotisseur

People give nothing so
liberally as their advice

You can't have your cake
and eat it too

One can't be always right

You cannot think of every-
thing

One man may lead a horse
to the water, but twenty
cannot make him drink

We are never very just
towards a rival

We are never so happy,
nor so unhappy, as we
suppose

All the time is lost that
might be better em-
ployed

It is easy to be too conceited

You can tell to a halfpenny

what it will cost
One can often kill two birds

with one stone
You might get yourself into

very hot water
Anyhow we can put a bold

front on it
The people should be taken

by the ears as a pot is

taken by the handle
Indolence is often taken

for patience
A man may learn to be a

cook, but he must be

born a roaster

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199

On vend toutes les marchan-

dises au prix de revient
Orgeat
Os a ronger
Oublier je ne puis
Outrance
Outre
Ouvrage
Ouvrier
Papeterie

Papier mache

Papiilote
Par accident
Par accord
Par-ci par-la
Par complaisance

Pardonnez-moi

Par excellence

Par exemple

Parfaitement bien

Par faveur

Par hasard

Par le droit du plus fort

Par les memes voies on ne

va pas toujours aux

memes fins
Parlez du loup, et vous

verrez sa queue

Par moitie

Parole

Par parenthese

All these goods are sold at
cost price

A liquor made from barley

A bone to pick

I can never forget

Excess ; extremity

Extravagant

Work

Workman

A case with writing ma-
terials

A substance made of a pulp
obtained from rags

Curl paper

By accident

In harmony with

Here and there

With a desire to be agree-
able

Pardon me

Eminently ; the very ideal

For example; for instance

Perfectly well

By favour

By chance

By right of the strongest

By the same roads we do
not always arrive at the
same ends

Speak of the wolf and you
will see his tail. Speak
of the devil, and he will
appear

By halves

Word

By way of parenthesis

200 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Par precaution
Par principe
Par privilege
Par signe de mepris

Part du lion
Parti
Partie carree

Partout
Parvenu

Pas

Pas a pas on va bien loin

Pas de nouvelles, bonnes

nouvelles
Passe

Passe-partout
Pas seul

Patois

Patte de velours
Pauvrete n'est pas vice
Pays de Cocagne

By way of precaution
On principle
By way of privilege
As a token of contempt

The lion's share

Party

Often used incorrectly by
English writers and
speakers to signify a
small and select party :
the true meaning, how-
ever, is a party com-
posed of two gentlemen
and two ladies. N.B.
The expression is some'
times erroneously writ-
ten thus — partie quarree

Everywhere

A person of low origin who
has risen ; upstart

A step

Step by step one goes a
long way

No news is good news

Past ; out of date
A master-key

A dance performed by one

person
A dialect
A velvet paw
Poverty is no vice

An imaginary country,
where everything is to be
had in abundance, and
without labour

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201

Pays Latin

Peine forte et dure
Penchant

Pensee

Pere de famille

Perruques

Persiflage
Personnel

Petit

Petit bourgeois

Petites affiches

Petit maitre

Peu

Peu a pen

Peu de bien, peu de soin

Pen de femmes desirent

coiffer Sainte Catherine
Peu de gens savent ctre

vieux
Peu s'en est fallu qu'il ne

soit tombe
Piece de resistance
Pieces de position
Pied poudreux
Piquant
Pis aller
Place aux dames

Lit., The Latin territory,
district, region. The
students of the Pays
Latin, that is, of the Uni-
versity

Severe punishment; strong
and severe pain

Strong inclination for any-
thing

A thought ; consideration

The father of a family ;
paterfamilias

Lit. wigs ; drivelling old
men

Chaff; banter

The staff of an establish-
ment

Small, little, insignificant

A second-rate citizen, cit

Advertisements

A little master ; a fop

Little, few

By degrees

Little wealth, little care

Few women wish to die old
maids

Few persons know how to
grow old (gracefully)

He very nearly fell

The principal dish

Heavy guns

A vagabond

Pointed ; pungent

The last resort

(Make) way for the ladies

202 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Plaqu6 ; double (Ormolu)

Plateau

Plains pouvoirs

Plus on est de fous, plus

on rit

Plus sages que les sages
Point d'appui
Porte-monnaie
Pose
Poste restante

Pour comble de bonheur
Pour connaitre un homme,
il faut avoir mange un
muid de sel avec lui

Pour couper court

Pour encourager les autres

Pour faire rire
Pour passer le temps
Pour prendre conge

(P.P.C.)
Pour totijours

Pour vivre longtemps, il
faut etre vieux de bonne
heure

Pour y parvenir

Pouvez-vous traduire a

livre ouvert ?
Precis
Prendre fait et cause pour

quelqu'un

Ormolu ; brass with the

appearance of gold
Tray ; table-land
Full powers
The more fools, the more

fun

More wise than the wise
Point of support ; prop
A purse

Position ; attitude
Lit. post left ; place at the
* Post Office where letters

may be addressed to be

left till called for
As the height of happiness
To know a man, you must

have eaten a bushel (lit.

hogshead) of salt with

him

To cut matters short
To serve as a warning to

the rest

To move laughter
To pass away the time
To take leave

For ever

In order to live long, one
must be old (in acquire-
ments) early

To accomplish the object
Can you translate at sight ?

A summary ; an epitome
To take anybody's side

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203

Prendre la clef des champs
Prendre la lune avec les
dents

Prendre une condition
Prends-moi tel que je suis
Prenez des informations la-

dessus

Prenez garde
Pres de 1'eglise, loin de

Dieu
Prestige

Pret a accomplir; pres

d'accomplir
Pret pour mon pays
Pris sur le fait
Proces verbal
Projet
Proletaire

Propriete litteraire
Protege (fern, gee)

Qu'a cela ne tienne, venez

sans fa9on
Quand il tomberait des

hallebardes, je viendrais
Quand on ne trouve pas

son repos en soi-meme,

il est inutile de le cher-

cher ailleurs

To catch the ball as it
bounds ; to seize an op-
portunity

To take French leave
To seize the moon with
one's teeth ; to try to do
the impossible
To take service
Take me just as I am
Make enquiries about it

Take care

The nearer the church,
the farther from God

Magic spell ; position ; in-
fluence

Ready to accomplish

Ready for my country
Caught in the act
Official report
A plan or project

A person of the lower
orders

Literary property ; copy-
right

One protected or patron-
ized

Never mind, come without
ceremony

I will come though it rain
cats and dogs

When one does not find
repose in oneself, it is
vain to seek it elsewhere

204 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Quand on voit la chose on

la croit
Que diable allait-il faire

dans cette galere ?
Que dit-on de nouveau ce

soir?

Que je t'y prenne
Quelle imprevoyance de

vivre toujours au jour le

jour

Quelque chose
Que lui importe cela
Que vous faut-il ?
Qui aime bien, chatie bien

Qui est-ce qui attachera le

grelot ?

Qui m'aime,aimemonchien
Qu'importe !
Qui n'a point de sens a

trente ans, n'en aura

jamais

Qui n'a sante n'a rien

Qui n'entend qu'une cloche,

n'entend qu'un son
Qui ne risque rien n'a rien

Qui pense ?

Qui se ressemble s'assemble

Qui trop embrasse mal

etreint
Qui veut noyer son chien

1'accuse de la rage

Seeing is believing

Why on earth did you go

there ?
What's the news this

evening?
Let me catch you
How imprudent always to

live from hand to mouth

A trifle ; something
What's that to him
What do you require ?
He loves well , who chastises

well ; spare the rod and

spoil the child
Who will bell the cat ?

Love me, love my dog
What does it matter !
He who has no sense at

thirty, will never have

any. A fool at forty is

a fool indeed
He that wants health wants

everything
Hear both sides

Nothing venture nothing

gain

Who thinks ?
Birds of a feather flock

together
Don't have too many irons

in the fire
Give a dog a bad name and

hang him

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205

Qui vive ?

Quoi de plus ennuyeux que
de faire tapisserie toute
la soiree

Raconteur

Ragout

Raison d'etre

Raisonne, catalogue rai-
sonne

Ramollissement

Ranz des vacbes

Rapprochement

Rechauffe

Recherche

Reclame

Reconnaissance

Recueil

Recueil choisi

Reculer pour mieux sauter

Redacteur

Regime

Remercier

Renaissance

Rencontre

Rendezvous

Rentes

Repondre en Normand

Who goes there ? (on the
qui vive, or the alert)

How annoying to be ne-
glected at the ball

A narrator

A highly seasoned dish
Reason for existence
Explanatory catalogue

Softening of the brain
Lit. ranks or rows of the
cows ; Swiss melodies
played as cow-calls — so
called because the cows
on hearing the air come
up to the player in rows
The act of bringing to-
gether : reconciliation
Warmed up (cauld kail

het again)
Elegant ; attractive
A puff

A survey of the position
A collection
A choice collection
To walk before you run
Editor (of a newspaper)
Government ; mode of

living

To return thanks
Revival
An encounter
A place fixed for a meeting
The funds (of France)
To give an evasive answer

206 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Reponse sans replique

Resume
Reunion
Revanche
Reveil

Revenons a nos moutons

Rien ne pese tant qu'un

secret
Rien ne ressemble mieux

a un honnete homme

qu'un fripon
Rien n'est beau que le vrai

Rigueur

Rira bien, qui rira le

dernier
Rire sous cape; rire dans

sa barbe
Role
R61e d'equipage

Roquelaure

Roue

Rouge

Rouge et noir

Roulette

Ruse centre ruse

Ruse de guerre

Sain et sauf

Salle

Salle a manger

S'amuser a la moutarde

A reply that admits of no
rejoinder ; a conclusive
answer

An abstract or epitome

A reunion

Revenge

The beat of the drum at
daybreak

Let us return to our subject

Nothing so oppressive as
a secret

Nothing more closely re-
sembles an honest man
than a knave

Nothing is beautiful but
truth

Strictness

He laughs best who laughs

last
To laugh in one's sleeve

A character in a play

A list of the crew; muster-
roll

A cloak
A profligate

Red ; powder for the face
A game of chance
A game of chance
Diamond cut diamond
A stratagem
Safe and sound ,
A hall

A dining room
To stand trifling

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207

Sang-froid

Sans

Sans ceremonie
Sans changer
Sans culottes

Sans Dieu, rien

Sans doute

Sans fa9on

Sans pain et sans vin,
1'amour n'estrien; quand
la pauvrete entre par la
porte, 1'amour s'envole
par la fenetre

Sans peur et sans reproche

Sans souci

Sans tache

Sante

Sauce d'appetit est la

meilleure
Sauve qui peut
Savant
Savoir
Savoir faire
Savoir vivre

Seance

Secret de la comedie
Selon les regies
S'embarquer sans biscuit

Sens dessus dessous

Cold blood ; indifference ;

apathy
Without

Without ceremony
Without changing
Ragged men ; the lower

classes

Nothing without God
Without doubt
Without ceremony
Without bread and without

wine, love is nothing ;

when poverty enters the

door, love flies out of the

window
Without fear and without

reproach
Free and easy
Without stain
Health
Hunger is the best sauce

Save himself who can

A learned man

Knowledge

Ability ; skill ; wits

Good breeding ; refined
manners

Session ; sitting

Everybody's secret

According to rule

To embark without pro-
visions. To begin an
undertaking without the
means of carrying it out

Topsy-turvy, upside down

208 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Ses folies sautent aux yeux
Ses ouvrages font loi
Se tirer d'affaire
Se trouver a la hauteur de

la situation
Siecle
Siecle d'or

Siecles des tenebres
Si je puis
Silhouette
Sobriquet
Societes anonymes
Soi-disant

Soi-meme

Soiree

Solidarite

Son esprit n'est pas de bon

aloi
Songes sont mensonges

Sortie

Soubrette

SoufHer le chaud et le froid

Souhaiter une bonne fete

Soupcon

Sous tous les rapports

Souvenez-vous que lesbons
comptes font les bons
amis

His foibles are palpable
His works are quiteclassics
To save one's bacon
To rise to the occasion

An age

The golden age (of
Louis XIV.)

The dark ages

If I can

A small portrait in profile

A nickname
Joint-stock companies

Self-styled ; would-be; pre-
tended

One's self

An evening party

A union of interest be-
tween individuals ; joint
liability

His wit is something musty

Dreams are lies. Don't
trust dreams

A sally

A female attendant

To blow hot and cold
To wish many happy re-
turns of the day

A little of anything ; a
a suspicion ; a taste

In all respects ; under all
circumstances

Remember, short reckon-
ings make long friends

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209

Souvenir

Souvent le mieux est

1'ennemi du bien
Soyez ferine
Spirituel
Suave
Suite

Suivez la raison

Sujet

Sur le tapis

Suzerain
Tableau

Table d'hote

Tache sans tache

Tachez de ne pas nous

faire faux bond
Taisez-vous

Tant bien que mal il en sut

sortir

Tant mieux
Tant pis
Tant soit peu
Tapis
Tel est tres-susceptible qui

taquine les autres
Tel maitre, tel valet

Tel qui rit vendredi di-

manche pleurera
Tete-a-tete
Tic douloureux
Tiens a la verite
Tiens ta foi

A keepsake

It's often best to leave
well alone

Be stanch

Intelligent

Sweet

Remaining part; atten-
dants ; a series

Follow reason

A subject

On the carpet ; under con-
sideration

Over-lord

Picture; striking represen-
tation

The ordinary (dinner)

A work without a stain

Try not to disappoint us

Be quiet

Somehow or other he got

through it
So much the better
So much the worse
Never so little
A carpet
Very touchy persons often

tease others
Like master, like man
Don't laugh till you cry

Face to face ; conversation
Neuralgic pain
Keep the truth
Keep thy faith

210 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Tiers-etat

Timbre-poste

Tire a quatre epingles

Tirer a la courte paille

Tirer le diable par le queue

Tocsin

Tomber des nues

Tome
Ton

Toujours a toi
Toujours pret
Tour de force
Tour d'expression

Tout

Tout-a-fait
Tout a 1'heure
Tout au contraire

Tout ce qui brille n'est

pas or

Tout chemin va a Rome
Tout chien qui aboie ne

mord pas

Tout chien sur son fumier
est hardi

Tout de meme

Lit. The third estate ; that
is, the people of France
as distinguished from
the nobility and the
higher clergy. The
commons

Postage stamp

Neat as a pin

To draw lots

To go to the dogs

An alarm bell

Unexpected ; without

parallel

Volume

Tone ; taste;

Ever thine

Always ready

A feat of strength

A peculiar mode of ex-
pression

All

Quite ; entirely

Just now

On the contrary ; quite the

reverse
All that glitters is not gold

By hook or by crook
Every dog that barks does

not bite. Barking dogs

seldom bite
Every dog is valiant on his

own dunghill. Every

cock crows loudest on

his own dunghill
All the same

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211

Tout d'un coup
Tout est pris

Tout le monde

Tout le monde ne gagne

pas a etre connu
Tout le monde veut du

bien a cette personne
Tout lui sourit

Tout ou rien

Tout se passa en un clin

d'oeil
Tout vient a. point a qui

salt attendre
Traduire a livre ouvert
Trait

Traiter de haut en has
Travailler en pleinair
Tres-bien
Tres-peu
Triste
Tristesse
Un bon marche n'est pas

toujours bon marche
Un chien peut bien regarder

un eveque

Une bonne a tout faire
Une fois n'est pas coutume

Une heure vient de sonner
Un homme averti en vaut
deux

At one stroke ; suddenly

All is taken ; every avenue
preoccupied

Every one

Everyone does not im-
prove on acquaintance

Everyone wishes her well

Everything goes well with

him

All or nothing
The whole thing took place

in a flash of lightning
All things come to him

who waits

To translate at sight
A feature
To laugh to scorn
To work out of doors
Very well
Very little
Sad ; melancholy
Sadness ; depression
A bargain is not always a

good bargain
Surely a cat may look at a

king
A general servant

One act does not make a
habit ; one swallow does
not make a summer ; no
rule without an ex-
ception

One o'clock has just struck
To be forewarned is to be
forearmed

212 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Un malheur ne vient

jamais seul
Un sot a triple etage
Un sot trouve toujours un

plus sot qui 1'admire
Un tiens vaut deux tu

1'auras

Un vaurien qui bat le pave
Valet de chambre
Vedettes
Ventre a terre
Verite

Verite sans peur
Vers de societe

Vertu

Verve

Vis-a-vis

Vive la bagatelle !

Vive le roi !

Vivre comme un coq en pate

Voila qu'il broie du noir

Voila tout

Voila une autre chose

Voir le dessous des cartes

Voir tout couleur de rose ;
voir tout en rose

Voiture

Voulez-vous faire une partie
de boules ?

Misfortunes seldom come

alone

An egregious blockhead
A fool always finds a greater

fool to admire him
A bird in the hand is

worth two in the bush
A vagabond loafing about
An attendant ; a footman
Sentinels on horseback
With whip and spur
Truth

Truth without fear
Society verses, composed

for the amusement of a

private party
Virtue

Animation ; spirit
Opposite ; face to face
Success to trifling ! Trifles

for ever !

Long live the king
To live in clover

Look at him in a brown

study
That is all

That's quite a different

matter
To be in the secret

To regard everything fa-
vourably; to look always
on the sunny side

A carriage

Will you have a game of
skittles ?

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213

Youloir prendre la lune

avec les dents
Vouloir rompre 1'anguille

au genou
Vous faites la sourde oreille

Vous ne me garderez pas

rancune pour cela
Yous ne me jetterez pas

ainsi de la poudre aux

Vous n'etes pas clans mes

petits papiers
Vous pretez continuelle-

ment a rire
Vous verrez que vous vous

en mordrez les doigts
Vous vous moquez de moi
Vous vous pretez la a quel-

que chose d'equivoque
Vous y perdrez vos pas
Voyageur
Yraisemblance

To attempt the impossible
To attempt the impossible

You are deaf to the voice
of the charmer

You wont bear me malice

on that account
You wont blind me in

that way

You are not in my good

books now
You are always making

yourself ridiculous
You will find you will be

sorry for it

You are laughing at me
You are engaged in a

doubtful business
You will lose your labour
A traveller
Likelihood ; probability

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A buon intenditor poche
parole

A cader va chi troppo alto
sale

A can che lecchi cenere

non gli fidar farina
A causa persa, parole assai

A caval donate non gli si

guarda in bocca
Accelerando

A chi consiglia non duole il

capo

Adagio (Ado.)
Ad area aperta il giusto

pecca

Ad ogni cosa e rimed io
fuora ch' alia morte

A person of good appre-
hension (needs) few
words. A word (is
enough) to the wise

Who climbs too high may
fear to fall. Climb not
too high lest the fall be
greater

A dog that licks ashes,
trust not with meal

What is done cannot be
undone. " Advice comes
too late when a thing is
done "

Look not a gift horse in
the mouth

Gradually faster ; with in-
creasing quickness

Counsel is easier than help

Slowly

With an open chest by

him, the just man sins.

Opportunity makes the

thief
For everything there's a

remedy except death.

There's a salve for every

sore

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215

Ad ogni uccello, suo nido e
bello

Affettuoso (Affeto.)
Aggio

Agitato

Ai ricchi non mancano
parenti

Al confessor, medico, ed
avvocato, non si de'tener
il vero celato

Al finir del gioco, si vede
chi ha guadagnato

Al fresco

Alia barba dei pazzi, il
barbier impara a radere
Alia buon 'ora
Alia caccia

AH'arnico curagli il fico, al
1'inimico il persico

Alia rinfusa

Allegretto (Allege.)
Allegro (Allo.)

There is no place like home
(lit., to every bird its
own nest is admirable)

Softly, affectingly, patneti-
cally

(Exchange, discount) The
difference in value be-
tween one sort of money
and another, and es-
pecially between notes
and coin (particularly on
the Continent)

With agitation

The rich have never re-
lations to seek. Land
was never lost for want
of an heir

Hide nothing from thy
confessor, physician, or
lawyer

At the end of the game
one may see who hath
won

In the fresh, or open air

A barber learns to shave
on a fool's chin

At last ; well done you

In hunting style ; after the
manner of the chase
(caccia)

Pull a fig for your friend,
and a peach for your
enemy

Helter-skelter, higgledy-
piggledy

Lively, pretty

Sprightly, lively

216 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Al molino ed alia sposa
sempre manca qualche
cosa

Alto (A., or Alt.), or con-
tralto

Alto relievo

Altro che !

Amor e signoria non vo-
gliono compagnia

Amoroso (Amo.)

Andante (Andte.)

Andantino (Ando.)

Andare stretto

Animate (An. or Anim.)
Anno di neve, anno di bene
A poco a poco
Appassionato

Appetite non vuol salse
Appoggiato

Appoggiatura

A prima vista

Aquila non mangia mosche

Arco
Aria
Arietta
Arioso

A mill and a woman are
always in want of some-
thing

The voice above the tenor,
counter-tenor

High relief (in sculpture)

Certainly; I should think so

Love and lordship like no
fellowship

Tenderly, lovingly

Moderately slowly

Somewhat slower than au-
dante

To do business shabbily.
To lose the ship for a
ha'porth of tar

With animation

A snow year, a rich year

By and by, by degrees

With passion ; in an im-
passioned manner
Hunger is the best sauce

Lit. propped ; indicating
that the notes are to be
played so as to glide in-
sensibly into each other

A note between others to
effect an easy movement

At sight

An eagle does not feed

upon flies

The bow (of the violin, &c.)
An air
A little air
In light, airy manner

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217

Arpeggio (Arpo.)

Arrivederci
Assai

Assai ben balla a chi For-

tuna suona
A tavola rotonda non si

contende del luogo
Attacca subito

Avere sulla punta della

lingua
Aver la pera monda

Aver le traveggole
A vostro commodo

Bandito (pi. banditi)
Barba bagnata mezza rasa

Barcarola

Basso (B.)

Indicating that the notes
are to be struck in rapid
succession, not simul-
taneously ; as on the harp

Hope to meet you soon
again

Very ; as allegro assai,
very lively

He dances well to whom
Fortune pipes

At a round table there's1
no dispute about place

"Attack suddenly"; indi-
cating that a second
movement is to be begun
instantly after the close
of the first

To have a thing at the tip
of one's tongue

To have one's pear ready
pared. To be born with
a silver spoon in one's
mouth

To see double; to see one
thing for another

At your leisure; at your
convenience

An outlaw

A lathered beard is half
shaved. Well begun is
half done

A melody or air sung by
the gondoliers of Venice ;
a piece of instrumental
music in imitation of
such airs

Base, or bass ; the lowest
male voice

218 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Basso relievo

Battuta

Bella donna e veste tag-
liuzzata sempre s'imbatte
in qualche uncino

Bella femina che ride, vuol
dir, borsa che piange

Belle parole non pascon i
gatti

Ben trovato

Bisogna battere il ferro

mentre e caldo
Bisogno fa trottar la vecchia

Bocca (in) chiusa, mosca

non ci entra
Bravo

Bravura

Brillante (Brill.)
Buffo

Cadenza

Cader dalla padella nelle
bragie

Low relief; where the figures
(in sculpture) do not
stand out far

The accented part of the
bar in music ; the part
marked in beating time

A pretty girl in a tattered
gown is sure to find some
hook in the way

When a pretty woman
smiles look to your purse

Fine words don't feed cats ;

fine words butter no

parsnips

Well found ; very ingenious
Strike while the iron is hot

Need makes the old wife

trot
A close mouth catcheth no

flies
Well done ! An assassin,

bandit, or daring villain

A florid, brilliant, difficult

air
Brilliant ; lively

Comic; the comic actor in
an opera

An ornamental passage in-
troduced by a musical
performer, either actu-
ally or apparently im-
promptu, and heralding
the close

To fall out of the frying-
pan into the fire

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219

Calando (Calo.)

Cambio non e furto
Camera

Cane che abbaie, non
morde

Cane vecchio non baia

indarno
Canone

Can scottato d'acqua calda
ha paura, poi della fredda

Cantabile (Cant.)
Cantata

Cantilena

Canto

Gradually becoming slower
and less vigorous

Exchange is no robbery

A chamber. Musica di
camera, chamber-music

The dog that barks does
not bite. Barking dogs
seldom bite

If the old dog barks, he
gives counsel
canon ; when the same
melody is taken up by
the different parts in
succession, at the dis-
tance of one or more
bars. In the canone can-
crizans, or canone al rovescio,
in one of the parts, the
melody is sung back-
wards

The scalded dog dreads
hot water, and after-
wards cold. The burnt
child dreads the fire

In graceful, elegant, sing-
ing style

A composition for one or
more voices, including
recitatives and airs ; now
usually a short compo-
sition in oratorio form,
but without dramatis per -

The part of a composition
containing the melody or
air

The treble, or highest part
in choral music

220 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Canzone
Canzonetta

Capella

Capo

Capper! !

Cappita! Caspita !

Capriccio

Capriccioso

Cara sposa

Carbonaro (pi. carbonari)

Casino

Cattiva e quella lana, che

non si puo tingere
Caval non morire, che erba

de' venire
Cavatina

Cembalo

Cento carra di pensieri non

pagheranno un' oncia di

debito

Cercare il pelo nell' uovo

Chaconne

A song

A canzonet ; a little or
short song

A church. Maestro di
Capella, chapel-master ;
director of the music of
a church

The head ; beginning

Dear me !

Wonderful !

An irregular composition,
in which the composer
follows his fancy or
caprice, rather than rule

In free, fantastic style

Dear spouse, or wife

Lit. a charcoal-burner.
A member of a secret
society (in Italy) ; hence
an ultra-democrat

Club-house

It is a bad cloth that will
take no colour

While the grass grows, the
steed starves

An air in one part or move-
ment ; a short, simple
air

The harpsichord

A hundred waggon -loads of
thoughts will not pay
one ounce of debt. A
pound of care will not
pay an ounce of debt

To pick faults where no
faultsare. "Tofindspots
in the sun "

A slow dance tune

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221

Che sara sara
Chiaroscuro

Chi ben cena ben dorme

Chi bestia va a Roma
bestia ritorna

Chi compra ha bisogno di
cent' occhi, chi vende ne
ha assai di uno

Chi con 1'occhio vede, col
cuor crede

Chi tace confessa

Chi da presto raddoppia il
dono

Chi digallinanasce convien
che raspi, o razzoli

Chi dorme coi cani si
sveglia colle pulci

Chi fa il conto senza 1'oste
lo fa due volte

Chi ferra, inchioda

Chi ha arte per tutto ha

parte
Chi 1' ha per natura, fin alia

fossa dura

What is to be, will be

An artistic distribution of
light and shade

He that sups well, sleeps
well

He that goes to Rome a
fool returns a fool.
Ccelum, non animum, &>c.

Who buys hath need of a
hundred eyes ; who sells
hath enough of one

He that sees with the eye,
believes with the heart.
Seeing is believing

Silence is confession (or
admission)

He gives twice who gives
quickly. " He gives
twice who gives in a
trice "

What is born of hen will
scrape

Evil communications cor-
rupt good manners

He that reckons without
the host must reckon
twice

He that shoes a horse,
pricks him. It is a good
horse that never stum-
bles, and a good wife
that never grumbles

He that has an art, has
everywhere a part

That which we have by
nature remains with us
till death. What is bred
in the bone will come
out of the flesh

222 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Chi la dura la vince

Chi nasce bella nasce
maritata

Chi non ha cervello, abbia
jjambe

Chi non ha cuore, abbia
gambe

Chi non pud fare come
voglia, faccia come puo

Chi non sa niente, non
dubita di niente

Chi non s'arrischia, non
guadagna. Chinonrisica
non rosica

Chi per man d'altri s'im-
bocca, tardi satolla

Chi pratica con lupi im-
para a urlar

Chi risponde presto, sa
poco

Chi si maritain fretta stenta
adagio

Chi sputa contra il vento
si sputa contra il viso

Patience conquers hard-
ship. " He that endureth
overcomes "

She that is born handsome,
is born married

He that has no brains,
ought to have legs. Who
has not a good tongue,
ought to have good hands

He that has no heart
(courage) ought to have
legs. One pair of heels is
often worth two pair of
hands

He that cannot do as he
would, must do as he can

He who knows nothing,
doubts nothing

Nothing venture, nothing
have

He that depends on ano-
ther man's table often
dines late

He that keeps company
with a wolf will learn to
howl. Tell me who you
keep company with, and
I'll tell you what you are

He who answers suddenly,
knows little of the matter

Marry in haste and repent
at leisure

He that spits against the
wind spits in his own
face. He that blows in
the dust fills his eyes

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223

Chi tardi arriva male
alloggia

Chi t' ha offeso non ti per-

dona mai
Chi tutto abbraccia, nulla

stringe

Chi va al mulino s'infarina

Chi va piano, va sano ed
anche lontano

Cicerone

Cicisbeo (pL cicisbei)

Coda

Col'arco (C.A.)

Colla paglia si maturano le

nespole
Colla parte (C.P.), or Colla

voce

Commodo (Com.)
Compagnia d'uno, com-
pagnia di niuno

Who arrives late finds
bad accommodation ; the
sluggard never gets in
time

He that has offended you
will never forgive you

He that grasps at all
catches none. Grasp all,
lose all

You cannot touch pitch
without being defiled

He that goes gently goes
safely, and also far. Fair
and softly go far in a day

A guide

A man that hangs about a
married woman

Tail; a short passage ex-
tending the conclusion
of a piece of music

"With the bow;" indica-
ting that the player is to
resume the bow, after
notes played by a twitch
of the fingers

Patience overcomes every-
thing

" With the part, or voice,"
indicating that the ac-
companist is to keep
by the principal part (in
cases where the perfor-
mer quickens or slackens
his pace at pleasure)

Easy

The company of one is the
company of none; one
man's company is no
company

224 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Compagno allegro per ca-
mino ti serve per ronzino

Con amore

Con anima
Concertante

Concerto

Con commodo

Con cura

Con delicatezza

Con diligenza

Con dolcezza

Con dolore

Con forza

Con fuoco

Con grazia

Con gusto

Conoscente (pi. conos- A connoisseur

centi)
Conoscere il pel nell'uovo

A merry companion on the
road is as good as a nag.
Comes jucundus, &>c.

With love (for the occupa-
tion)

With animation

A piece of music, in which
several principal instru-
ments or voices take the
principal part alternate-
ly, the others accom-
panying

A composition for a single
principal instrument,
with accompaniments
for a full orchestra

At a convenient rate

Carefully

With delicacy

Diligently

With sweetness

With grief

With force

With fire, or spirit

With grace

Tastefully; in elegant style

Con pazienza
Con permesso
Con piacere
Con scienza

Con sordini

To know the skin of an
egg ; to know which side
one's bread is buttered on

Patiently

May I

With pleasure

With learning ; with
thorough knowledge

With mutes

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225

Conti chiari amici can
Contrabasso (C.B.)

Contrabbandiere
Contrada dei nobili

Contra-fagotto

Con variazioni

Conversazione

Corno

Corno di bassetto

Corpo di Bacco !

Cosa ben fatta e fatta due

volte
Cosa fatta capo ha

Cosa fatta per forza non

vale una scorza
Cresce il di,cresce '1 freddo,

dice il pescatore

Crescendo (Cr., or Cres.)

Da capo (D.C.)

Danari fanno danari
Dar del naso dentro
Da retta

Short reckonings, dear
friends. Even reckoning
keeps long friends

Thedouble-bass; the largest
of the violin class of in-
struments

A smuggler

The quarter of the nobles

(in Italian cities')
The double bassoon
With variations
A social gathering
A horn

The basset-horn ; a large
instrument like the cla-
rionet

Good Heavens ! (lit. body of
Bacchus)

A thing well done is double
done

A thing done is out of hand

A thing done perfect is not
worth a rush

As the day lengthens, the
cold strengthens, says
the fisherman

Increasingly; with gradu-
ally increasing loudness ;
indicating that the notes
it refers to are to be
gradually swelled

From the beginning ; over
again

Money makes money

To put one's foot in it

I say — Listen

p

226 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Dare in guardia la lattuga
ai paperi

Del cuoio d' altri si fanno
corregge larghe

Delle ingiurie il rimedio e

lo scordarsi
Del senno di poi n'e piena

ogni fossa

Dentro da un orecchio e

fuora dall'altro
Devotissimo suo
Di badessa tornar conversa

Di buona terra to la vigna,
di buona madre to la
figlia

Di buon'ora

Di giorno

Di giovani ne muoiono

molti, di vecchi ne

scampa nessuno
Di il vero e affronterai il

diavolo
Dilettante (pi. dilettanti)

Diminuendo (Dim.)

To give the lettuce to the

keeping of the geese ;

to give the wolf the

wether (or the fox the

chickens) to keep
They cut large thongs from

olhei people's leather.

De alieno corio, &*c.
The best remedy for wrongs

is to forget them
Every ditch is full of people

that are wise alter the

event
In at one ear, and out at

the other
Yours truly

From an abbess to become
a lay-sister. To come
down in the world. From
horses to asses

Like father, like son.
Take a vine of a good
soil, and the daughter of
a good mother

Early

By day

Of young men die many,

ot old men escape not

any
Speak the truth and shame

the devil
One that cultivates art or

science only by way of

amusement or recreation
Gradually decreasing in

loudness. Opposite to

crescendo

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227

Dimmi con chivai, e sapro
quello che fai

Di molto

Dio non voglia
Di notte
Di salto

Dispicca 1'impiccato, che
impicchera poi te

Di un dono far due amici
Divertimento

Divieni tosto vecchio, se
vuoi vivere lungamente
vecchio

Dolce (Dol.)

Dolce cose a vedere, e dolci
inganni

Dolce far niente
Doloroso

Domanda all'osto s' egli ha
buon vino

Donne, preti, e polli non
son mai satolli

Tell me who you keep
company with, and I'll
tell you what your
character is. A man is
known by his associates

Very ; adagio di molto, very
slow

Heaven forbid

By night

By leaps and bounds

Save a thief from the
gallows, and he'll cut
your throat

With one gift to make two
friends. To kill two
birds with one stone

A short musical piece, vocal
or instrumental, in a light
and familiar style

You must soon become old,
if you wish to live long
old. Old young, and old
long

Soft and sweet (music)

Sweetto the eye and flatter-
ing to the sense. "All
that glitters is not gold."
" A goodly apple rotten
at the heart "

The pleasure of idleness

In melancholy style ; soft
and pathetic (music)

Ask your host if his wine
be good. Ask my com-
panion if I be a thief

Women, priests, and poul-
try never have enough

228 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Dono molto aspettato e
venduto, non donate

Dopo il cattivo ne vien il
buon tempo

Dove 1'oro parla, ogni
lingua tace

Dove sono donne ed ocche
non vi sono parole poche

Due

Due teste vagliano pin che
una sola

Due tordi ad una pania

Duettino
Duetto

Due visi sotto una beretta

Due volte

Duro con duro non fa mai
buon muro

E cattivo vento che non e
buono per qualcheduno

Ecome ilcanedell'ortolano,
che non mangia de'cavoli
egli, e non ne lascia man-
giar agli altri

Egli m' ha dato un osso da
rodere

A gift long waited for is
sold, not given. He
loses his thanks who
promiseth and delayeth

After bad weather comes
good. After a storm
comes a calm

Where gold speaks, every
tongue is silent

Where there are women
and geese, there is plenty
of gabble

Two

Two heads are better than
one

(To stop) two gaps with
one bush

A short duet

A duet ; a musical compo-
sition for two voices or
two instruments

(To carry) two faces under
one hood

Twice

Hard with hard makes not
a good wall

It is an ill wind that blows
nobody good

He is like the gardener's
dog, who never eats
cabbages himself, nor
allows others to eat them.
The dog in the manger

He has given me a bone to
gnaw ; a bone to pick

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229

E meglio averoggiun uovo,
che dimani una gallina

E meglio cader dalle fines-
tre che dal tetto

E rr.eglio esser capo di
cardella che coda di
storione

E meglio esser fortunato
che savio

E meglio esser mendicante

che ignorante
E meglio piegar che

scavezzar
E meglio senza cibo restar

che senz'onore

E meglio tardi che mai
E pur troppo vero
Espressione (Espe.)
Espressivo (Espo.)

Esser fortunato come un
cane in chiesa

Esser fuori di se
Esser tra 1'ancudine e il
martello

It is better to have an egg
to-day than a hen to-
morrow. A bird in the
hand is worth two in the
bush. Never quit cer-
tainty for hope

It is better to fall from the
window than from the
roof. It's never so bad
but it might have beer-
worse

Better be the head of a sprat
than the tail of a stur-
geon

It is better to be lucky than
wise. Lucky men need
little counsel

Better be a beggar than a
fool

Better to bend than to
break

Better be without food than
without honour. Rather
death than false of faith

Better late than never

It is but too true

With expression ; feeling

Expressively ; with ex-
pression

To have the same luck as
a dog in a church ; to
be unlucky

To be beside oneself

To be between the anvil
and the hammer ; to
be in desperate straits.
" Between the devil and
the deep sea "

230 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Fa bene a te e ai tuoi, e
poi agli altri se tu puoi

Fagotto
Falsetto
Fantoccino

Fiasco
Ficcanaso
Ficcare carote
Finale

Fine (Fin.)
Fioriture

Flauto

Flauto piccolo
Flebile (Flebe.)

Forte (F., or For.)

Forte e 1'aceto di vin dolce

Fortissimo (Ff. or Fo.)
Forzando (Forzo., or Fz.)

Fuga

Fuga doppia

Fugato

Fughetta

Do good to thyself and
thine, and afterwards
to others if thou canst.
Charity begins at home

The bassoon

An artificial voice

Doll ; puppet ; childish ;
imbecile

An utter failure

Meddlesome intruder

To tell fibs

The final part (of a musical
piece, concert, &c.)

The end ; finish (music)

Flourishes (in music) ; or-
namental passages in-
troduced by a performer

The flute

The small flute ; flageolet

In weeping, mournful-
style

Loud

Strong is the vinegar from
sweet wine ; the sweetest
wine makes the sharpest
vinegar. Corruptio op-
timi pessima

Very loud

An emphasis upon a single
note

A fugue

A double fugue

A piece containing passages
in imitation of the fugue
style, but not a regular
fugue

A short fugue

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231

Furioso (Furo.)
Furore

Galantuomo

Gallina che schia mazzi ha

fatto 1'uovo
Gatta guantata non piglia

mai sorce

Gavotta

Generalissimo

Giga

Giocoso

Giojoso

Giovine ozioso, vecchio

bisognoso
Giovine Santo, Diavolo

vecchio

Giuoco di mano giuoco di

villano
Gli assenti hanno torto

Grandioso

Grassa cucina, magro

testamento
Grazioso (Graz.)

Gruppetto

Guardati da chi non ha che

perdere
Gusto

Vehemently

Great attraction, enthusi-
asm, fury, rage

An honest man

It is the hen that cackles
who laid the egg

A gloved cat never catches
mice. A muffled cat is
no good mouser

A lively dance tune ;
originally a French
dance — gavotte, gavot

Commander-in-chief

A jig

Humorously ; in a sportive
vein

Joyously

A young man idle, an old
man needy

A young saint, an old devil.
Early piety is often de-
ceptive

Practical jokes are vulgar

The absent are always in

the wrong
In grand, lofty style
A fat kitchen, a lean will

In a flowing, graceful move-
ment

A small group (of musical
notes) ; the embellish-
ment called " a turn "

Beware of him that has.
nothing to lose

Taste, enjoyment, zest

232 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Gustoso

I fatti sono maschi, le
parole femine

II diavolo tenta tutti, ma
1'ozioso tenta il diavolo

II mondo e fatto a scale ;

chi le scende, e chi le

sale
II poco mangiar e poco

parlare non fece mai male

II savio udendo, piu savio
diventa

II volto sciolto ed i pensieri
stretti

I matti fanno le feste, ed i

savj se le godono
Impresario

Improvvisatore

In bianco

Incognito (incog.)

In disgrazia della giustizia

Inganno

The devil tempts everyone,
but the lazy man tempts
the devil

The world is like a stair-
case, which one goes up
and another comes down

Eating little and speaking
little have never injured
any one

The wise man by listening
becomes still wiser. Lay
your hand on your mouth
and let your soul be in-
structed

The countenance open,
but the thoughts strictly
reserved. A clear brow
— dark thoughts. " A
fair face may hide a foul
heart." " There is no
trusting to appearances "

Fools make feasts, and wise
men enjoy them

Manager (of an opera com-
pany) ; contractor

An extemporary poet or
story-teller

In blank ; in white

Unknown ; unrecognised

Under the frown of justice;
under a cloud

A trick ; deception ; an
unexpected transition
from one chord to an-
other

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233

Innamorato
In petto
Intermezzo

Introduzione

1 pensieri non pagano ga-

belle
I piccoli cani trovano, ma

grandi hanno la lepre

Istesso tempo

Lagrimoso

L' allegro

La mala compagnia e

quella che mena gli

uomini alia forca
Lamentabile, or Lamente-

vole

Languendo, or Languente
La poverta e la madre di

tutte le arti
La pratica val piu della

grammatica
La prima pioggie e quella

che bagna
Larghetto (Largh.)
Largo (Larg.)

In love ; lover

Concealed withinthe breast

An interlude (musical) ; a
short dramatic piece,
light and sparkling, in-
troduced between the
parts of a large work
(drama, opera, &c.)

The introduction ; the
opening movement of a
musical piece

Thoughts are free

The little dogs find (raise),
but the big ones hold
(seize, catch) the hare.
Some do the sowing,
others the mowing. One
sows, another reaps

Same time

In tearful, mournful style

The merry man

Bad company is what
brings men to the gallows

In plaintive style

Languishingly

Necessity is the mother of

invention
Experience is the best

teacher
It is the first shower that

wets
A degree faster than largo

A slow, solemn movement
(in music)

234 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Lasciate ogni speranza,voi

ch'entrate
La speranza e il pan de'

miseri
Lauda la moglie e tienti

donzello
Lazzaretto

Lazzaroni (sing, lazzarone)

Legato (Leg.)

Leggiero, or Leggiera-

mente

Lentando, or Slentando
Lento (Lnto.)
Libretto

Lingua Franca
Lingua volgare

Liuto

L'occupazione e il miglior
rimedio contra la noia

Lusingando

Leave hope behind, all ye
who enter here

Hope is the poor man's
bread (only comfort)

Praise married life, but
remain single

A hospital, or pest-house,
for persons suffering
from (chiefly) contagious
disease, or held in quaran-
tine on suspicion of
disease

Idle, improvident, wretched
people (especially at
Naples) ; the very dregs
of the people

In a smooth, continuous
style ; without break be-
tween notes

Lightly

Gradually becoming slower
Slow

The words of a play or

opera (lit. a little book)
The mixed language of

Europeans and Orientals

in the Levant
The vulgar tongue ; the

common language, as

opposed to the dialects

of Italy
The lute
The best cure for ennui is

to get something to do

In a soothing, persuasive

style

Italian Section.

235

Ma

Madonna
Maestoso (Maes.)

Magari

Maggiore (Mag.)

Maggior fretta minor atto

Malinconia

Mancando (Man. or Mane.)

Marcato

Marcia

Marcia funebre

Marziale

Ma sicuro

Mazurka

Meno (Men.)

Messa di voce

Mesto

Mezzo (Mez.)
Mezzo-forte (Mf.)

Mezzo-piano (Mp.)

Mezzo voce (M.V.)

Minore (Min.)

Minuetto (Mtto.)

Misura

Misurato

Moderate (Mod.)

Molto

Molto fumo e poco arrosto

But. Allegro ma non troppo,
quick, but not too quick
The Virgin Mary

With grandeur ; in a

majestic style
Would to Heaven it were so
Major

Most haste less speed
Melancholy
Languishingly (music)
In a marked, distinct style
A march
A dead march
In martial style
To be sure ; just so
A Polish dance
Less; as, jneno allegro, less

quick
The gradual swelling and

diminishing of the voice

on a long note
Mournfully
Medium

Between forte and piano ;

not very loudly
Middling softly
Middle voice
Minor (key)
Minuet
Measure

In strict or measured time
Moderately fast
Very
Much smoke and little fire ;

much cry and little wool

236 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Mordente

Morendo (Mor.)

Moresco

Mosso

Motive

Moto

Naturalo fece, e poi ruppe
lo stampo

Navigare secondo il vento

Nonebelloquel che e bello,

ma quel che piace
Nonetto

Non fidatevi al'alchimista
povero, o al medico am-
malato

Non mi ricordo

Notturno

Nulla nuova, buona nuova

An ornament consisting of
a turn, or transient shake
on a short note

Dying away

In Moorish style

With motion ; as piu mosso,
with more motion,
quicker

A motet, or piece of sacred
music, in harmony of
several parts

The theme of a piece of
music

Energy

Nature made him, and then
broke the mould. We
shall not look upon his
like again

To sail before the wind, or
with the stream. " To
follow the crowd." " To
do at Rome what the
Romans do." "You can-
not live in Rome and
quarrel with the Pope "

Handsome is that hand-
some does

A composition for nine
instruments

Do not trust to a poor
alchymist, or a sick
physician

I do not remember

A light vocal or instru-
mental composition a-
dapted to evening en-
joyment

No news is good news

Italian Section.

237

Obbligatissimo
Obbligato (Obi.)

Oboe (pi. oboi)
Octava Alta

Odi, vedi, e taci, se vuoi
vivere in pace

Ogni cane e leone acasasua
Ogni debole ha sempre il

suo tiranno
Ogni medaglia ha il suo

rovescio

Ogni uno per si medesimo,

e Dio per tutti
Onor di bocca assai giova e

poco costa
Opera buffa
Opera seria
Operetta
Ora e sempre
Oratorio
Ordinario (Ordo.)

Ottava rima
Ottetto

Padrone di farlo
Padron mio

Parla bene, ma parla poco
Parlando (Parlante)

Most obliged

Absolutely necessary (in a
musical performance)

The hautboy

(Play) the higher octave

Listen, see, and keep your
tongue between your
teeth, if you wish to live
in peace

Every dog is a lion at home

The weak man always has
his tyrant

Every medal has its re-
verse. There are two
to every question

Every one for himself and
God for all

Fair words go for much,
and cost little

A comic opera

A serious opera

A short opera

Now and ever, for ever

A sacred musical drama

Ordinarily; in the usual
style

The eight-lined stanza

A musical composition in

eight parts
You can do as you like

Lit., my master; your
servant

Speak well, but speak
little

In a speaking or decla-
matory style

238 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Parte
Partitura

Passato il pericolo, gab-

bato il santo
Pasticcio

Pastorale
Pedale (Fed.]

Pensieroso

Perdendosi (Per., Perd., or

Perden.)
Per far effetto

Per 1'amor di Dio

Per troppo dibatter, la

verita si perde
Pesante
Piacere
Piacere, una cosa. Mi

piace
Piacevole
Piangendo
Pianissimo (Pp.)
Piano (P.)
Piccolo

A part (in vocal and in-
strumental music)

The score of a piece of
music, containing all the
parts for voices and
instruments

The danger passed, the
saint is mocked

A composite opera, made
up of parts by different
composers

A pastoral piece, or move-
ment

A pedal (of the organ)
pressed by the foot; a
long note in the bass
extending over several
bars

Melancholy

A close that dies away
(in music)

To do the thing (any-
thing) in style ; to come
out strong. For appear-
ance sake

For the love of God

By too much debate trutli
is obscured

With weight ; impressively

Pleasure

To like something. I like
it

In a pleasing style

Plaintively

Very soft

Soft

Small

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239

Piu. Di piu in piu

Piu lento

Piu tosto mendicanti che

ignoranti
Piu vede un occhio del

padrone che quattro de'

servitori
Pizzicato

Poca roba, poco pensiero

Poco

Poco a poco

Poco curante (sometimes

written as one word)
Podesta
Polenta

Pomposo (Pomp.)
Pot-Pourri
Poverta non e onta
Precipitando
Preludio
Prender due colombe, o

piccioni ad una fava
Presto mature, presto

marcio

Presto o tardi
Presto, prestissimo
Prima Donna

Prima volta
Primo tempo

Pur troppo

More. More and more

Slower

Better starve the body than

the mind
One eye of the master sees

more than four of the

servants'
Sounding the strings (of

violin) with twitch of

the finger

Little thought, little (care)
A little
Little by little
" Caring little;" a careless

indifferent person
Chief magistrate
Italian porridge
In pompous style
A medley of popular airs
Poverty is no disgrace
Hurriedly
A prelude
To kill two birds with one

stone
Soon ripe, soon rot

By and by; sooner or later

Quick, very quick

The principal singer in an
opera

The first tune

The first time ; the time
marked at the opening
of the piece (musical)

It is but too true

240 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Quanta teste, tanti cervelli
Quartette

Questo vento non vaglia la

biada
Quintette

Raccomandare il lardo

alia gatta
Rallentando (Ral., Rail.,

or Rallo.)
Recitative
Render pane per focaccia

Replica
Rialto

Rifacimento
Riffioramenti

Rincrescere. Mi rincresce
Rinforzando (Rin. or Rinf.)
Ripieno

Risoluto

Ritardando (Rit. or Ritard.)

Ritornello

Romanza

Rondino (rondoletto)

Many men many minds

A musical composition for
four voices or instru-
ments

This zephyr does not even
fan the wheat

A musical piece for five
voices or instruments

To set a fox to mind the
chickens

Slackening (music)

Recitative

To give tit for tat. Like

for like
Repetition

The name of a famous
bridge in Venice

A refurbishing or dressing-
up

Embellishments (added by
a musical performer)

To be sorry for. I am
sorry

Laying special emphasis
on some note (musical)

That which fills up
(music); voices or in-
struments swelling the
volume of sound

In a bold, resolute style

Retardingly

Repetition of a strain

(music)

A simple story or ballad
A short rondo

Italian Section.

241

Rubato

Saggio fanciullo e chi co-
nosce il suo vero padre

Sbirri (sing, sbirro)

Scena

Scherzando, or Scherzoso
(Scherz.)

Scherzo

Sciolto
Scozzese
Segno

Segue (Seg.) [allegro]
Semplice
Sempre (Semp.)
Sempre il mal non vien per
nuocere

Se non e vero, e ben trovato

Senza (Sen.)
Senza compliment!
Senza ceremonie
Senza organe
Senza replica

A movement consisting of
several strains or parts,
each ending with a repe-
tition of the first part
or subject

Robbed. Tempo Rubato is
when some notes of a
bar are prolonged be-
yond their proper time,
thus robbing others of
their proper length

He is a wise child who
knows his own father

Police officers

A scene (of an opera)

In a playful style

A light and sportive move-
ment

In a free and open manner

In the Scottish style

A sign ; a mark

Here follows [the allegro]

In a simple style

Always

Often out of evil comes
forth good. " It is an ill
wind that blows nobody
good." " Every cloud
has a silver lining "

If not true, it is very
ingenious

Without

No compliments, pray

Without ceremony

Without the organ

Without repetition

Q

242 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Septetto
Serenata
Sestetto
Sforzando

Sforzato (Sf. or Sforz.)

Siciliana

Simpatico

Sinfonia

Slentando (Slent.)

Smorzando (Smorz.)

Soave

Soccorso non venne mai

tardi
Soggetto
Solfeggio

Sonata

Sonatina
Soprano (S.)
Sordini

A musical composition for

seven instruments
A serenade ; an evening

concert in the open air
A musical composition for

six voices or instruments
With a strong accent

(music)

With emphasis
In Sicilian style (music)
Nice, genial, jolly
A symphony
A gradual diminishing of

time (music)
A gradual diminishing of

loudness (music)
Sweet
It's never too late to mend

A musical subject; theme
Sol-faing; system of arrang-
ing the scale of music by
the names do, re, mi, fa,
sol, la, si ; a voice exer-
cise

A musical composition of
several movements for a
single instrument (usu-
ally the pianoforte), with
or without accompani-
ment

A short sonata
The highest female voice
Mutes ; little instruments
on the bridge of the
violin, &c., deadening
the sound

Italian Section.

243

Sospirando

Sostenuto (Sos., or Sost.)

Sotto pena di morte
Sotto voce (S.V.)
Spiccato (Spice.)

Spirito
Spiritoso
Staccato (Stacc.)

Stavo bene, ma, per star

meglio, sto qui
Stesso
Strepito
Stretto

Stringendo

Stromenti

Subito

Tanto

Tanto buono che val niente

Tanto ne va a chi ruba, che

a chi tiene il sacco
Tempo
Tempo giusto
Teneramente
Tenore (T., ov Ten.)
Tenuto (Ten.)

Terra cotta

Sighing (music)

A musical note sustained

to its full length, with no

break between it and the

next note
On pain of death
In an undertone, or whisper
With distinctly separated

sounds (music)
Spirit ; animation
Spirited
A short, distinct, and

pointed style ; the oppo-
site of legato
I was well, but I'm all the

better for being here
The same
Noise
The quickening of time

(music)
Acceleration of time

(music)
Instruments
Quick
Not very
It is so very good that it's

good for nothing
The receiver is as bad as

the thief
Time (music)
In correct time (musical)
Tenderly
Tenor (music)
A note to be sustained

during its whole length
Baked earth

244 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Terzetto

Thema, Tema

Timpani

Torso

Tosto o tardi

Tre fratelli, tre castelli

Tremando, Tremolo (Tr.,

or Trem.)
Trillo
Triole

Tromba
Trombone

Troppo disputare la verita

fa errare
Tutti (T.)
Una corda
Una rondine non fa prima-

vera
Una scopa nuova spazza

bene
Una volta furfante, e

sempre furfante
Un mal chiama 1'altro
Variazioni (Var.)

Veloce
Vermicelli

A trio, or musical piece for
three voices or instru-
ments

A theme ; subject (music)

Kettle-drums

The trunk of a statue

Sooner or later

Three brothers, three
castles. Two to one
are odds at football

Tremulous vibration of a
note

A trill, or shake

A triplet ; a group of three
notes of equal length

Trumpet

An instrument somewhat

resembling a trumpet in

sound
Discussing truth too much

leads to error
All together

(On) one string (of violin)
One swallow does not

make a summer
A new broom sweeps clean

What's bred in the bone
will come out in the flesh
It never rains but it pours

Variations (on a musical

air)
With great rapidity

Thin rolls of paste(prepared
of flour, cheese, yolks of
eggs, sugar, and saffron)

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245

Vettura
Vetturino
Vibrato

Vigoroso (Vig.)
Viola (Va.)
Violone
Viva

Vivace (Viv.)

Viver insieme come cane
e gatto

Voce

Voce di petto

Voce di testa

Volata

Voler bene

Voier male

Volesse Iddio !

Volontieri

Volta

Volti

Void subito (V.S.)

Zero

A four-wheeled carriage

The cabman

Strongly vibrating (music)

Energetically

The tenor violin

The double bass

(Long) live (the king, &c.)

Brisk, lively

To live like dog and cat.
To lead a cat and dog
life. To be constantly
quarrelling

The voice

Chest voice (the real voice)

Head voice (falsetto)

A flight (of musical notes)

To wish one well

To wish one ill

Would to God !

Willingly ; delighted

Time

Turn over

Turn over (the leaf) quickly

Cipher

SPANISH SECTION.

A espaldas vueltas me-

morias muertas
Alguazil

Al hombre osado, la fortuna
le da la mano

Al que a buen arbol se
arrima, buena sombra le
cobija

A muertos y a idos ni
parientes ni amigos

Auto de fe

A vuestra salud
Bien vienes mal si vienes
solo

Bocado comido no gana

amigo
Buen abogado mal vecino

Buey viejo surco derecho
Caballero

Out of sight, out of mind

A constable ; an inferior

officer of justice
Fortune favours the brave.

Faint heart never won

fair lady
They are rich who have

friends

The dead have no friends

An act of faith ; the name
given in Spain and
Portugal to the burning
of Jews and heretics
under the Inquisition

Your good health

Thou comest well, if thou
comest alone (said of
misfortunes)

A morsel eaten gains no
friend

A good lawyer is a bad
neighbour

An old ox makes a straight
furrow

A gentleman

Spanish Section.

247

Caballo que vuela, no Do not spur a free horse

quiere espuela
Cada gallo canta en su

muladar
Cada uno en su casa, y

Dios en la de todos

Cada uno sabe adonde le
aprieta el zapato

Cantaro que muchas veces

va a la fuente alguna vez

se ha de quebrar
Comida hecha compaiiia

deshecha
Comprar en feria, y vender

en casa
Conocidos muchos, amigos

pocos
Contra fortuna no vale arte

ninguna
Corregidor
Cria cuervos y te sacaran

los ojos

Dar gato por liebre

De cualquier manera que
vaya vestido sere Sancho
Panza

Del agua mansa me libre
Dios, que de la brava
me guardare yo

Del dicho alhecho hay gran
trecho

Every cock crows loud on

his own dunghill
Every one in his own

house, and God in all of

them. Every man for

himself, and God for us

all
Every one knows best

where the shoe pinches

him
A pitcher goes often to the

well, but is broken at

last
When good cheer is lacking

friends will be packing
Buy at a market, but sell

at home

(Havej many acquain-
tances, (but) few friends
There is no fighting against

fate

A magistrate
Save a thief from the

gallows and he will cut

your throat
To give chalk for cheese

However I am dressed, I
shall still be Sancho
Panza ; I shall be neither
more nor less meritorious

Smooth water runs deep

Great braggers, little doers

248 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Del mal el menos

Del mal pagador siquiera

en paja
Despues de ido el conejo,

tomamos el consejo
De sabios es mudar de

consejo

Detras de la cruz esta el
diablo

Dia de dos cruces

Don

Donde fuego se hace humo

sale
Donde hay gana hay mafia

Donde las dan las toman

Donde menos se piensa,

salta la liebre
Duelos con pan son menos

El buen pano en el area se

vende
El comer y elrascar todo es

empezar
El corazon manda la carne

El dinero hace al hombre

entero
El Dorado
El hombre propone y Dios

dispone

Of two evils, choose the less
Of a bad paymaster get

your due if only in kine
Lock the stable-door when

the steed is stolen
The wise man may change

his opinion, but the fool

never
Behind the cross stands

the devil. Where God

has his church, the devil

will have his chapel
Two saints on one day
Lord; master; Mr.
There is no fire without

some smoke
Where there's a will there's

a way
One good turn deserves

another
The hare springs out, when

one thinks not of it
Sorrows with something to

eat (bread) are endurable

(less). A fat sorrow is

better than a lean one
Good wine needs no herald

(bush)
To eat, and to scratch, a

man need but begin
The spirit is willing but the

flesh is weak
Money makes the man

" The golden " (land)
Man proposes, but God
disposes

Spanish Section.

249

El vino no trae bragas, ni
depario, ni de leiio

En boca cerrada no entra

mosca
En cueros (vivos)

Escritura, buena memoria

Exaltado progresista

Fonda

Gato aullador nunca buen

cazador
Gentilhombre
Gitano
Gran victoria es la que sin

sangre se alcanza
Grande arma es la neces-

sidad

Guerra al cuchillo

Guerra, caza, y amores,
por un placer mil dolores

Guerrilla

Habiendo pregonado vino,
vende vinagre

Wine wears neither linen
nor woollen breeches ;
when wine's in wit's out

A still tongue makes a wise
head

Stark naked. " Under bare
poles." " In puris natu-
ralibus"

Writing, the best memory.
Writing makes the exact
man

An advanced progressist; a
radical

An hotel

A mewing cat is not a good
mouser

A gentleman

A gipsy

Great is the victory that is
won without bloodshed

Necessity is a strong arm.
Necessity is the mother
of invention

War to the knife (bitter
end)

War, hunting, and love
bring a thousand pains
for one pleasure. Wars
bring scars. Love is
fruitful of alarms

An irregular petty war ;
an armed mountaineer,
member of an indepen-
dent band harassing the
enemy by irregular
attacks

After having advertised
wine he sells vinegar

250 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Hablar sin pensar es tirar
sin encarar

Hacienda

Hacienda tu amo te vea

Hidalgo

Hidalguia
Hombre de un libro

Hurtar el puerco, y dar los
pies por Dios

La mentira tiene las piernas

cortas
Las riquezas son bagajes de

la fortuna
Locos y niiios, dicen la

verdad
Mas vale pajaro en mano

que buitre volando
Mas vale saber que haber

Mas vale ser necio que por-

fiado

Mas vale tarde que nunca
Moderado

Mucho en el suelo, poco

en el Cielo

No es todo oro lo que reluce
No hay cerradura si es de

oro la ganzua

To speak without thinking

is to shoot without taking

aim

A country estate
The foot of the owner is the

best manure for his land
A gentleman, belonging by

birth to the inferior

nobility
Nobility
A man of one book

To steal a hog, and give
away the feet in alms to
God. To be liberal at
another's expense

A lie has a short (life) legs

Riches are the sumpter

mules of fortune
Children and fools speak

truth
A bird in the hand is worth

two in the bush
Knowledge is better than

riches
Better be ignorant than

obstinate

Better late than never
A conservative
Rich here, poor hereafter

All is not gold that glitters

There is no lock but a

golden key will open it.

" No lock will hold a-

gainst the power of gold "

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251

No saber firmar

No se gano Zamora en una

hora
Obra empezada medio aca-

bada
Ofrecer mucho, especie es

de negar

Ojo del amo engorda el
caballo

Olla podrida

Paga lo que debes y sabras

lo que tienes
Piedra movediza no cria

moho
Piensa el ladron que todos

son de su condicion

Por el dinero baila el perro

Presto maduro, presto

podrido
Pronunciamiento

Quien calla otorga

Quien escucha, su mal oye

Quien mucho abarca poco
aprieta

Quien pregunta, no yerra

Recoje tu heno mientras
que el sol luciere

Not to know how to sign
one's name. To be a
mighty grandee

Rome was not built in a
day

Well begun is half done

To offer too much is to
court denial

The owner's eye fattens
the horse

Medley ; hotch-pot(ch)
Out of debt, out of danger

A rolling stone gathers no

moss
The thief thinks that all

are of his profession

Money makes the mare

to go
Soon ripe, soon rot

A public declaration ; an
announcement of revo-
lution

Silence gives consent

Listeners never hear good

of themselves
Over-reaching cheats itself.

Grasp all, lose all.

Grasp no more than

thy hand will hold

Nothing lost for lack of

asking
Make hay while the sun

shines

252 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Remuda de pasturage hace

bizerros gordos
Sierra

Siesta

Sobre gustos no hay nada

escrito

Tal amo, tal criado
Tomabala por rosa, mas

era cardo
Un cabello hace sombra

Un corazon contento es un

festin continuado
Verdad es amarga
Visteme despacio,que estoy

deprisa
Vivir y vivamos

Beasts get fat by change

of pastures
A chain of mountains (with

jagged ridges like the

teeth of a saw]
A short sleep taken about

mid-day
There's no accounting for

tastes

Like master, like man
I took her for a rose, but

she turned out a thorn
A single hair casts a

shadow

A contented mind is a con-
tinual feast
Truth is green (bitter)
More haste less speed

Live and let live

PORTUGUESE SECTION.

A bolca vazia, e a casa An empty purse, and a new
acabada faz o homem house, make a man wise,
sisudo, mas tarde but too late

A caridade bem entendida Charity begins at home

principia por casa
Agoa tranquilla, agoa Still waters run deep

fun da
A palavra e prata, o silen- A still tongue makes a

' cio e ouro wise head

A quern servir a carapu9a If the cap fit, wear it

que a tome
Barriga cheia, cara alegre A heavy purse makes a

light heart
Bater em ferro frio You cannot get blood out

of a stone
Bem principiado. meio Well begun is half done

caminho andado
Bem sabe o gato cujas The cat knows well whose

barbas lambe lips she licks

Boas palavras enternece- A soft answer turneth

ram o diabo away wrath

Boca de mel, corasao de fel A tongue of honey, a heart

of gall
Cada ovelha com sua. Every Jack has his Jill

parelha
Cada qual com seu igual Birds of a feather flock

together

Cada um em sua casa e rey Every one is king in his

own house. A man's
house is his castle

254 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Cuidar nao e saber
Cunha do niesmo pau
Dar ao diabo a sua parte
De boas internes esta o

inferno cheio
Despir um Santo para

vestir outro
Dize-me com quern andas,

dirte-hei quern tu 6s

Dois proveitos nao cabem
' em um saco
Fazer castellos no ar
Fazer da necessidade, vir-

tude
Fazer do peior o melhor

Fugir do fumo, e cair no
fogo

Gato escaldado d'agua fria

tern medo
Longe da vista, longe do

Mais vale so, do que mal

acompanhado
Mais vale tarde do que

nunca
Mais vale um passaro na

mao do que dois voando
Mais veem quatro olhos do

que dois
Malhar o ferro em quanto

esta quente
Molhar a vella em quanto

ha vento
Muitospoucos fazemmuito

Care's no cure
A chip of the old block
Give the devil his due
Hell is paved with good

intentions
Robbing Peter to pay Paul

Tell me whom you keep
company with, and I
will tell you what you do

You cannot eat the cake
and have it

To build castles in the air

Make a virtue of necessity

Make the best of a bad

bargain
To escape from the smoke,

and fall into the fire.

Out of the frying-pan

into the fire
A burnt child dreads the

fire
Out of sight, out of mind

Let well alone
Better late than never

A bird in hand is worth

two in the bush
Two heads are better than

one
Strike while the iron is hot

Make hay while the sun

shines
Many littles make a mickle

Portuguese Section.

255

Xa adversidade se con-

hecem os amigos
Xiio contes com o ovo na

gallinha
X;\o ha melhor mostarda

do que a fome
Xao se colhem trutas a

bragas enchutas
O amor e cego
O homem propoe, e Deus

dispoe
O que nao tern remedio,

remediado esta
O saber e poder
Os pequenos espiritos con-

tentao-se com as pe-

quenas cousas
Poupar nos farelos e des-

perdi9ar na farinha
Quern ama Beltrao, ama

seu cao
Quem boa cama fizer, n'ella

se deitara
Quem da o que tern, a

pedir vem
Quem nao arrisca, nao

ganha

Quem nao deve, nao teme
Querer e poder

Roma nao foi edificada

n'um so dia
Senr. Dom ; meu Senhor ;

Snr.
Uma mao lava outra

Um homem prevenido vale
por dois

Adversity tries friends

Count not your chickens
before they are hatched

Hunger is good mustard —
the best sauce

He must crack the nut
who would the kernel eat

Love is blind

Man proposes, God dis-
poses

What can't be cured must
be endured

Knowledge is power

Little things please little
minds

A penny wise and a pound

foolish
Love me, love my dog

As you make your bed so

you must lie on it
Waste not, want not

Nothing venture, nothing

gain

Out of debt, out of danger
WThere there's a will there's

a way
Rome was not built in a

day
Lord; master; Mr.

One good turn deserves

another
Forewarned is forearmed

GERMAN SECTION.

Abgeordnete

Alterthum

Auch weiber wussten zu
schweigen

Auf den Hund kommen
Aufgeschoben 1st nicht auf-

gehoben
Auf keinen griinen zweig

kommen

Bahnhof
Bitte

Blut und Eisen
Brief
Briefbote
Briefmarke
Dampfboot
Darunter und dariiber
Das Vaterland
Dawider behute uns Gott !
Der brave Mann denkt an
sich selbst zuletzt

Der ewige Jude

A deputy ; representative

(in parliament)
Antiquity
Even the women (in Tyrol)

knew how to be silent ;

to keep their tongues

between their teeth
To go to the dogs
Deferred is not denied

" Never to come on a green
twig;" not to get on (in
the world). " Down on
his luck "

Railway station

Please

Blood and iron

Letter

Postman

Postage stamp

Steamboat

Topsy-turvy

The Fatherland (Germany)

Heaven forbid !

The gallant (noble, good)
man thinks of himself
last

The everlasting Jew; the
wandering Jew

German Section.

257

Der Hahn im Korbe sein

Der wilde Jager

Deutsch

Deutschland

Dichtung und Wahrheit

Die Hiille und die Fiille

Die Tugend ist das hochste

Gut

Die Wacht am Rhein
Donner und Blitz
Eile mit weile

Ein Ei ist dem andern gleich

Einem auf die Finger klop-
fen

Einem das Fell iiber die
Ohren ziehen

Ein Wortlein kann ihn
fallen

Eisenbahn

Er ist sein Vater wie er
leibt und lebt

Eroeffnung des Reich-
stages

Ertragen muss man was
der Himmel sendet

Es bleibt dabei

Es geschieht dir eben recht

" To be the cock in the
basket ; " to be cock of
the company

The wild huntsman

German

Germany

Poetry and truth

" The hull (husk) and the
full ; " in plenty

Virtue is the highest good

The Watch on the Rhine
Thunder and lightning
Hasten with leisure. "More

hurry, worse speed."

" Slow and steady wins

the race." Lat. festina

lente
One egg is like another.

" As like as two peas "
To rap one's knuckles ; to

clip one's wings ; to

check one
"To pull the fell (hide,

skin) over one's ears ; "

to fleece him smartly
A single little word can

strike him down
Railroad (lit. iron way)
He is the very picture of

his father
Opening of the Imperial

diet
What heaven sends must

be borne. Deo cede
Agreed !
Serves you right

R

258 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Es giebt

Es lebe der Konig!
Es wird kein Hahn darnach
krahen

Finanzminister

Frau
Fraulein
Friede
Frisch auf !

Cluck auf dem Wege

Gliick auf ! Gliick zu !
Gott ist uberall
Guten Abend
Guten Morgen
Gut Heil, frisch, fromm,
froehlich, frei !

Hauptstadt
Heil dem konig
Heimweh

Herr

Hier liegt der hund be-
graben

Hin ist hin

Hoch lebe der Kaiser !
Hof

There is ; there are

Long live the King !

" There will no cock crow
over that ; " no one will
care a brass farthing for
it

Finance minister ; Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer

Mrs. ; wife ; lady

Miss ; young lady

Peace

Cheer up !

Money

Good luck on the way !.
Fortune attend you !

Good luck !

God is above all

Good evening

Good morning
(Motto of the Turnverein)>
lit. all hail, fresh, pious,,
joyous, free

Capital town

Long live the king

Home grief; a morbid de-
sire of returning home ;
nostalgia

Mr.

" Here lies the dog buried ; "
this is the point. "There's
the rub "

" Gone is gone." " No-
good in crying over spilt
milk "

Long live the Emperor

Court

German Section.

259

Hof-prediger
Ich danke Ihnen
Ich dien

Ich werde Ihnen etwas
husten

Immer schlimmer
Immer wird, nie ist

1st dir wohl, so bleibe

Jede strasse fuhrt ans End
der Welt

Kellner

Konig und Kaiser

Krieg

Kunst

Landsturm

Landwehr

Langsam

Lassen Sie es gut sein

Lebe wohl (pi., Leben Sie

wohl)
Lehrjahre

Leitartikel

Lied

Madchen

Court-chaplain

I thank you

I serve ; the motto of the
Prince of Wales

" I'll cough a bit for you ; "
you will have to wait for
it till doomsday ; you
may whistle for it

Worse and worse

What is always be-
coming, never is

If you are well off, remain
so. Never quit certainty
for hope

Every road leads to
end of the world,
roads go to Jericho

Waiter

King and emperor

War

Art

General levy of the people ;
comprising all men
capable of bearing arms
that are not included in
the line, the reserve, or
the landwehr

Militia

Slowly

Never mind

Farewell

Apprenticeship (lit. instruc

tion years)
Leading article
A song
Girl, maid

260 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Maessig
Mahrchen
Mein Herr

Mit der thiir in das Haus
fallen

Mit Haut und Haarem

Muenze

Nachricht

Neue Allgemeine Deutsche

Bibliothek
Nichts andres bleibt uns

iibrig

Nimm die Zogernde zum
Rath, nicht zum Werk-
zeug deiner That

Oberhaus und Unterhaus

Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast

Posthaus
Prosit Neujahr !
Rathhaus
Real-schulen

Reichskanzler

Reichsverfassung

Reichsrath

Reichstag

Rinderpest

Moderate

Fabulous tale

Sir (in addressing one)

To fall into the house with

the door ; to blurt out

something ; to put it

bluntly
" With skin and hair ; "

completely, thoroughly ;

out and out
Coin
News
New Universal German

Library
Nothing else remains over

for us. We have no

alternative
Deliberate slowly, execute

promptly. Strike while

the iron is hot
Upper House and Lower

House; Houses of Lords

and Commons
Without haste, yet without

rest ; unhasting, yet un-
resting
Post-office

A happy N ew Year (to you) !
Town hall
" Real" schools, secondary

schools giving a general

practical education
Imperial chancellor
Constitution of the empire
Council of the empire
Imperial diet
Cattle plague

German Section.

261

Ruhe ist die erste Burgerp-

flicht

Sauerkraut
Schloss
Schnellzug
Schoenen Dank
Singverein

Sitzung des Abgeordne-

tenhauses
So wahr ich lebe
Sprechen sie Deutsch ?
Steuer
Strasse

Sturm und Drang
Turnverein
Ueber Hals und Kopf

Uebungmacht den Meister

Universitaet

Unter den Linden

Yaterland

Verbunden werden auch
die Schwachen machtig

Versammlung
Vertrau' auf Gott
Waffenstillstand
Wanderjahre

Tranquillity is the first

duty of citizens
Pickled cabbage
Castle

Fast train ; express
Best thanks
Harmonic society ; choral

union
Sitting of the delegates

As (sure as) I am alive

Do you speak German ?

Tax, rate

Street

Storm and stress

Gymnastic society

" Over neck and head " ;
headlong

Practice makes perfect

University

Under the limes (name of
the principal street in
Berlin, from the rows of
lime trees)

Fatherland

Even the weak, when
united, become powerful.
Union is strength

Meeting

Put your trust in God

Armistice

Travels (lit. wandering
years, in which a journey-
man went from place to
place after his Lehrjahre,
to acquire further expe-
rience)

262 Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.

Wappen

Was giebt es ?

Was sein muss, das ges-

chehe
Weder gehauen noch ges-

tochen
Wer gar zu viel bedenkt,

wird wenig leisten

Zeitung

Zollamt

Zollfrei

Zollhaus

Zollverein

Zu dienen

Zu tief ins glas schauen

Arms, coat of arms

What is the matter ?

Let what must be, happen.

Come what come must
Neither fish nor flesh

He that considers too much,
will not bring anything
to performance

Journal ; gazette ; news-
paper

Custom office (or house)

Free of custom

Custom-house

Customs-union

At your service

To look too deep into one's
glass. " To take a drop
too much "

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