The Dog in Cypriot Adages

The Adages
of Cyprus Folklore

The Dog in Cypriot Adages

  You wash a dog, you bathe a dog, it still smells like a dog (no matter how hard someone tries, he cannot change someone else's bad attributes)

  You inherited a dog? (when a poor person gets an expensive or fancy item)

  Human from pedigree and dog from pound (a mongrel is better than a pure breed)

  A dog who doesn't bite, let him bark (someone who is all talk and no action)

  I talk to my dog and my dog talks to his tail (someone who is lazy and does not want to do anything)

  A dog who is not interested is not going to catch the rabbit (if someone does not want to do something, he is not going to do it)

  He wants the whole loaf of bread and the dog fed (stingy people expect to obtain whatever they want without spending money)

  The cheap meat the dogs will eat (people give away want they don't want)

  They are like a dog and a cat (two people who hate each other)

  Your child and your dog, it depends on how you teach/raise them (parents and masters are responsible for how their children and pets turn out)

  The days they were tying the dogs with sausages (the good old days when people were more honest)

  You can not straighten the tail of a dog (dishonest people who can not be changed)

  He died like a dog (a miserable and lonely death)

  They treat us like dogs (when people are treated poorly)

  Every dog in his house is strong and brave (people are more confident in familiar situations and surroundings)