if wishes were horses beggars might ride
- if wishes were horses beggars might ride
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≈ если бы да кабы во рту росли грибы
‘He never looked after himself,’ Reeves said. ‘If he had he'd have been good for many a year yet.’ ‘Aye. And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.’ He could never warm to Reeves. (J. Plunkett, ‘The Trusting and the Maimed’, ‘Mercy’) — - Мартин никогда о себе не думал, - сказал Ривс. - Если бы он больше о себе заботился, то прожил бы еще много лет. - Да. Конечно. Если бы да кабы во рту росли грибы. Фред никогда не испытывал расположения к Ривсу.
Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа»..
2006.
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literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
