معادل ضرب المثل

Question

با سلام خواستم بدونم کسی معادل انگلیسی این ضرب المثل رو میدونه ؟

طرف گنجشک رو رنگ میکنه جای قناری می فروشه

ممنون از همه دوستان

Answer 1

 Hi, d

He is as cunning/sly as a fox.s

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/sly+as+a+fox.html

Answer 2

"Painting sparrows yellow and selling them as canaries."

Not a proverb or an idiom! but it's a good phrase and communicates the idea very clearly! English is rich in vocabulary that can be fashioned at will and is not dependent upon fixed proverbs or metaphors. "Painting sparrows yellow and selling them as canaries." it's quite understandable. It means being intelligent and skilled in deceiving others, especially in order to trick them out of their money.

It isn't just a proverb, it is something that was actually done (or claimed to have been done) by one George Gurdjieff who was either a sage or a charlatan or both, according to one's point of view.
At first sight, it is difficult to believe that Gurdjieff's elaborate cosmology was anything other than a planned, comical confidence trick designed to demonstrate how far the gullibility of his followers could be tested. His own account of how he survived his early wanderings reveals how expert he was at deception. Gurdjieff wrote that he coloured sparrows with aniline dyes and sold them as 'American canaries' in Samarkand. He tells us that he had to leave quickly in case rain washed the sparrows clean.
http://www.prem-rawat-bio.org/gurus/astorr_gurdjieff.htm
 

_{http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2917901&p=14751574#post14751574}

Comments

hi

thank u sooo much my friend.