Proverbs sundanais

Category: Proverbs sundanais

List proverbs sundanais

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  • Abang-abang lambe
Literal direction: Attention with the red lips!
Illustrated direction: Not to stop with marked flattering words to give pleasure seulement.
Explanation: One should not stop with a first impression which seems favorable: either of the flattering words or of beautiful lips rouges.
French approximate equivalent: One should not trust with the apparences.

  • Adam lali ing tapel

Alternative: Adam lali tapel.
Literal direction: Adam forgot his origines.
Illustrated direction: Success makes us forget beginnings more modestes.
Explanation: In the same way that Adam cannot claim to go down from a great line, since it were created directly by God, certain people of modest milieu who succeeded in the life will tend sometimes not to speak more about their past, their parents, their friends of childhood, their place of origin, etc.
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  • Bisa ka balled ka Basle
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