Results for: to throw the handle after the hatchet (i.e., to give up in despair)
English Latin
no one can give what he does not havenemo dat quod non habet
no song can give pleasure for long, nor can it last, that is written by drinkers of water (Horace)nulla placere diu nec vivere carmina possunt quæ scribuntur aquæ potoribus
not to us, Lord, not to us; but to your Name give glory (Psalm 113:9)non nobis, Domine, non nobis; sed nomini tuo da gloriam
nothing is pleasant to which variety does not give relishjucundum nihil est, nisi quod reficit varietas
nothing must be despaired of; despair at nothing (Horace)nil desperandum
O sacred simplicity! (Jan Hus, the martyred Czech religious reformer, upon seeing a woman hurrying to throw a piece of wood on the fire)O sancta simplicitas!
O, how easily the gods give high circumstances, and how reluctant they are to ensure them when given (Lucan)O faciles dare summa deos, eademque tueri difficiles
once God has begun to throw down the prosperous, he overthrows them altogether; such is the end of the mighty (Seneca)semel profecto premere felices Deus cum cœpit, urget; hos habent magna exitus
Once you have their money, you never give it back: the 1st rule of acquisitonOlim habeas eorum pecuniam, numquam eam reddis: prima regula quaesitus
Pearls before swine. To give something valuable to someone not respecting itMargaritas ante porcos
physicians practice what belongs to physicians and workers handle the tools they have been trained to use, but all of us everywhere, trained and untrained alike, write poems (Horace)quod medicorum est promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri scribimus indocti doctique poëmata passim
put forth, give outedo
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions (Cæsar Augustus, quoted in Suetonius)Quintili Vare, legiones redde
sell formally, give up, loosen / widen, extendlaxo
that I am inspired and give pleasure, if I give pleasure, it is because of you (Horace)quod spiro et placeo, si placeo, tuum est
 

Translations: 7690 / 203

Your Recent Searches

Total number of language pairs: 544
Total number of translations (in millions): 15.4

About Eudict

EUdict (European dictionary) is a collection of online dictionaries for the languages spoken mostly in Europe. These dictionaries are the result of the work of many authors who worked very hard and finally offered their product free of charge on the internet thus making it easier to all of us to communicate with each other. Some of the dictionaries have only a few thousand words, others have more than 320,000. Some of the words may be incorrectly translated or mistyped.

Options

There are several ways to use this dictionary. The most common way is by word input (you must know which language the word is in) but you can also use your browser's search box and bookmarklets (or favelets).

Look at the complete list of languages: Available language pairs

There are two Japanese-English (and Japanese-French) dictionaries and one contains Kanji and Kana (Kana in English and French pair due to improved searching). For the same reason the Chinese dictionary contains traditional and simplified Chinese terms on one side and Pinyin and English terms on the other.

Esperanto is only partially translated. Please help us improve this site by translating its interface.

Browser integration (Search plugins)

Perhaps the best way to enable dictionary search is through integration into the search field of your browser. To add EUdict alongside Google, Yahoo!, Amazon and other search engines in Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer, simply click on link after the title Browser integration, select appropriate language pair and confirm your decision. And you're ready to go; select EUdict from the drop-down list in search field (Firefox) or address bar (IE), input a word and press Enter. In Chrome, first click on a language pair and change the search keyword in the field 'Keyword' to a keyword (eg: 'eudict'). Afterwards, you simply type the chosen keyword in the address bar to start the search in the chosen dictionary.

Bookmarklets

There is a way to enable word translation from any page: Bookmarklets. A bookmarklet is a small JavaScript code stored as a bookmark in you browser.

Tips and tricks

If you want to type a character which isn't on your keyboard, simply pick it from a list of special characters. If you are unable to add a bookmarklet in Mozilla Firefox according to the instructions above, there is another way; right click on a link and select Bookmark this link… Now you can drag this link from Bookmarks to the Bookmarks Toolbar.

Instead of clicking the Search button, just press Enter. Although EUdict can't translate complete sentences, it can translate several words at once if you separate them with spaces or commas. Sometimes you can find translation results directly from Google by typing: eudict word. If you are searching for a word in Japanese (Kanji) dictionary and not receiving any results, try without Kana (term in brackets). If you are searching for a word in the Chinese dictionary and not receiving any results, try without Pinyin (term in brackets). Disable spellchecking in Firefox by going to Tools → Options → Advanced → Check my spelling as I type. Why not add a EUdict search form to your web site? Form

Credits

My name is Tomislav Kuzmic, I live in Croatia and this site is my personal project. I am responsible for the concept, design, programming and development. I do this in my spare time. To contact me for any reason please send me an email to tkuzmic at gmail dot com. Let me take this chance to thank all who contributed to the making of these dictionaries and improving the site's quality:

EUdict is online since May 9, 2005 and English<>Croatian dictionary on tkuzmic.com since June 16, 2003.

Recent searches