Results for: you are trying to get water from a stone (Plautus)
English Latin
there is no small pleasure in sweet water (Ovid)est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas
they insist on snatching the lamb from the wolf (Plautus)lupo agnum eripere postulant
things unbecoming are to be held becoming if the master does them (Plautus)indigna digna habenda sunt hæres quæ facit
this goddess, Fortune, single-handedly frustrates the plans of a hundred learned men (Plautus)centum doctum hominum consilia sola hæc devincit dea Fortuna
this is the great fault of wine, it first trips up the feet; it is a cunning wrestler (Plautus)magnum hoc vitium vino est, pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu ’st
those who have white hair are old enough to be wise (Plautus)sapere isthac ætate oportet, qui sunt capite candido
through water and fire she goes plunging but is not submerged (a motto of Paris, whose symbol is a boat)per undas et ignes fluctuat nec mergitur
to a well-deserving man, God will show favor, to an ill-deserving man, God will be simply just (Plautus)bene merenti bene profuerit, male merenti par erit
to ask what is unreasonable from the reasonable is not right; to ask what is reasonable from the unreasonable is folly (Plautus)injusta ab justis impetrare non decet; justa autem ab injustis petere, insipientia est
to do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good (Plautus)malo benefacere tantumdem est periculum quantum bono malefacere
to draw water with a sievecribro aquam haurire
to give a white stone (i.e., to cast a favorable vote)album calculum addere
to hold in, check, restrian /back water /practiceinhibeo
to move every stone (i.e., to leave no stone unturned)omnem movere lapidem
to throw cold water on a businessfrigidam aquam effundere
 

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