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  • "آب از دستش نمیچکه."
    • Literal Translation: Water does not trickle out of his hand.
    • Connotation: He is a skinflint. She is tight-fisted.
    • English Equivalent: Short arms, long pockets. First one out the taxi, last one to the bar.
  • "آب از سر چشمه گل آلوده."
    • Literal Translation: Water is muddy at the fountainhead.
    • Connotation: The issue is muddled at the core.
    • English Equivalent: It's rotten to the core.
  • "آب از آب تکان نمیخوره."
    • Literal translation: The water doesn't move.
    • Connotation: Nothing is disturbed. No waves are made.
    • English Equivalent: All quiet along the Potomac.
  • "آب از سرش گذشته."
    • Literal Translation: Water is past his head.
    • Connotation: He has lost his chance; it's over for him.
    • English Equivalent: She's in deep water. He's got in over his head.
  • "آب پاکی روی دستش ریخت."
    • Literal Translation: She poured cleansing water on his hand.
    • Connotation: She told him the (bitter) truth.
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  • "آب در کوزه و ما تشنه لبان میگردیم."
    • Literal Translation: Water is in the jug, yet we're wandering around with parched lips.
    • Connotation: The solution is under our nose, yet we're searching far and wide for it.
    • English Equivalent:We can't see the wood for the trees
  • "آب را گل آلود میکنه که ماهی بگیره."
    • Literal Translation: He makes the water muddy to fish.
    • Connotation: He creates a confusing situation for opportunistic reasons.
    • English Equivalent: He is fishing in troubled waters.
  • "آب زیر پوستش افتاده."
    • Literal Translation: Water has seeped under her skin.
    • Connotation: She has become hale. Her appearance has improved.
    • English Equivalent: She is in the pink.
  • "آب که یه جا بمونه، میگنده."
    • Literal Translation: When water remains in one place, it spoils.
    • Connotation: Absence of change causes stagnation.
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  • "آبکش و نگاه کن که به کفگیر میگه تو سه سوراخ داری."
    • Literal Translation: Look at the colander telling the pierced serving spoon, "You have three holes."
    • Connotation: Applied when a person mentions the problems of another without seeing his own bigger problems.
    • English Equivalent: The pot calling the kettle black.
    • French Equivalent: C'est la paille et la poutre.
  • "آب که از سر گذشت، چه یک ذرع چه صد ذرع ـ چه یک نی چه صد نی."
    • Literal Translation: Once water goes over your head, may it be one zar or hundred zars, may it be one nay or a hundred nays.
    • Connotation: Once one is in deep trouble, the exact magnitude of one's misfortune becomes immaterial.
    • English Equivalent: Might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. In for a penny, in for a pound.
  • "آب که سر بالا میره، قورباغه ابوعطا میخونه."
    • Literal Translation: When water flows uphill, frogs sing Abu Ata.
    • Connotation: An event is so improbable that its occurrence is akin to cacophony sounding mellifluous.
    • English Equivalent: Once in a blue moon
  • "آب نمی‌بینه و گرنه شناگر قابلیه."
    • Literal Translation: He doesn't see any water; otherwise, he is a skilled swimmer.
    • Connotation: He doesn't find the appropriate occasion to demonstrate his talents and abilities.
    • English Equivalent: He talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk
  • "آبی از او گرم نمیشه."
    • Literal Translation: No water is heated by him.
    • Connotation: He is not an agent of change. He is not a difference-maker. He provides no support or benefit.
    • English Equivalent: He's a good-for-nothing.
  • "آتش که گرفت، خشک و تر میسوزد."
    • Literal Translation: Once fire spreads, the damp and the dry burn.
    • Connotation: Once a situation gets out of hand, the guilty and the innocent get harmed equally.
    • English Equivalent: Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
  • "آخر شاه منشی، کاه کشی است."
    • Literal Translation: He who puts on lordly airs winds up hauling hay.
    • Connotation: He who has had his nose in the air bites the dust in the end.
    • English Equivalent: Pride comes before a fall
  • "آدم با کسی که علی گفت، عمر نمیگه."
    • Literal Translation: If you talk Ali to him, don't mention Omar.
    • Connotation: Speak in the frame of reference of your audience.
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  • "آدم بد حساب، دوبار میده."
    • Literal Translation: One who is poor at finace pays twice.
    • Connotation: One who is inept incurs costs twice as much as necessary.
    • English Equivalent: A fool and his money are soon parted.
  • "آدم تنبل، عقل چهل وزیر داره."
    • Literal Translation: A sluggard claims the wisdom of forty viziers.
    • Connotation: He talks the talk but doesnt walk the walk
    • English Equivalent: Great talkers are little doers.
  • "آدم خوش معامله، شریک مال مردمه."
    • Literal Translation: An honest broker shares in people's wealth.
    • Connotation: People entrust an honest man with their wherewithals.
    • English Equivalent: Share and share alike
  • "آدم دست پاچه، کار را دوبار می‌کنه."
    • Literal Translation: A hasty man does things twice.
    • Connotation: A slapdash work requires rework.
    • English Equivalent: Haste makes waste. Measure twice, cut once.
  • "آدم دست پاچه دوبار می‌شاشه."
    • Literal Translation: A hasty man pisses twice.
    • Connotation: A slapdash work requires rework.
    • English Equivalent: Less haste, more speed
  • "آدم زنده، زندگی می‌خواد."
    • Literal Translation: A living person needs a life.
    • Connotation: Human beings need meaningful lives.
    • English Equivalent: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
  • "آدم زنده وکیل وصی نمی‌خواد."
    • Literal Translation: A living man doesn't need an heir or an executor.
    • Connotation: He who is alive and well needs no proxies to speak and act for him.
    • English Equivalent: Eat drink and make merry, for tomorrow you might die
  • "آدم گدا، اینهمه ادا؟"
    • Literal Translation: So down-and-out, so high-and-mighty!
    • Connotation: For someone who has very little to offer, he makes a great deal of demands.
    • English Equivalent: Lying in the gutter, looking at the stars
  • "آدم گرسنه، خواب نان سنگک می‌بینه."
    • Literal Translation: A hungry man dreams of sangak bread.
    • Connotation: Those with meager means dream of riches.
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  • "آدم ناشی، سرنا را از سر گشادش میزنه."
    • Literal Translation: A novice blows into the bell of a clarion.
    • Connotation: An incompetent person does not know how to go about doing a task (he blows into trumpet's bell instead of its mouthpiece).
    • English Equivalent: He doesn't know which end is up.
  • "آرد خودمونو ریختیم، الک مونو آویختیم."
    • Literal Translation: We sifted our flour and hung up our sifter.
    • Connotation: I minded my own business.
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  • "آرزو بر جوانان عیب نیست."
    • Literal Translation: Aspiration is not a defect for youngsters.
    • Connotation: It's ok for youths to be dreamers.
    • English Equivalent: There's no harm in dreaming
  • "آستین نو پلو بخور."
    • Literal Translation: O New Sleeve, eat pilau!
    • Connotation: People admire and value your trappings and outer personality instead of your inner self.
    • English Equivalent: Don't judge a book by its cover
  • "آسوده کسی که خر نداره --- از کاه و جوش خبر نداره."
    • Literal Translation: Comfortable is he who doesn't have a donkey -- He who doesn't know of its straw and barley.
    • Connotation: Lucky are those with no carks and cares..
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  • "آسه برو آسه بیا که گربه شاخت نزنه."
    • Literal Translation: Go slowly, come slowly, lest the cat should gore you.
    • Connotation: Do your work quietly, so that you won't get in trouble. Keep a low profile.
    • English Equivalent: Don't rock the boat. Don't make waves.
  • "آشپز که دوتا شد، آش یا شوره یا بی‌نمک."
    • Literal Translation: Between two cooks, the soup becomes either salty or bland.
    • Connotation: Too many decision-makers may doom the outcome.
    • English Equivalent: Too many cooks spoil the broth.
  • "آش نخورده و دهن سوخته."
    • Literal Translation: Uneaten soup and burned mouth.
    • Connotation: Applied in situations where one gets in trouble for an action one hasn't committed.
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  • "آفتابه خرج لحیمه."
    • Literal Translation: The ewer is cheaper than its solder.
    • Connotation: It's less costly to dispose of an item than to repair it.
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  • "آفتابه لگن هفت دست،اما شام و ناهار هیچی."
    • Literal Translation: Seven sets of ewers and washbowls, but no dinner or lunch.
    • Connotation: Applied when there's a lot of side-preparation/advertisement for an event without any important event.
    • English Equivalent: All fur coat and no knickers
  • "آفتابه و لولهنگ هر دو یک کار می‌کنند، اما قیمتشان موقع گرو گذاشتن معلوم می‌شه."
    • Literal Translation: A ewer and a hose do the same thing, but their real values show when they are pawned.
    • Connotation: Goods have value only to those who desire them
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  • "آمدم ثواب کنم، کباب شدم."
    • Literal Translation: I attempted to be benevolent, but I got burnt.
    • Connotation: I was trying to help out, but I got in trouble myself.
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  • "آمد زیر ابروشو برداره، چشمش را کور کرد."
    • Literal Translation: He tried to pluck her eyebrow, but blinded her eye.
    • Connotation: He tried to solve a simple problem, but made it worse.
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  • "آنانکه غنی‌ترند، محتاج‌ترند."
    • Literal Translation: The richer they are, the needier they are.
    • Connotation: The rich are subjugated by their greed for more riches.
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  • "آنچه دلم خواست نه آن شد --- آنچه خدا خواست همان شد."
    • Literal Translation: What I wished for happened not -- What God willed happened to a dot.
    • Connotation: Events are governed by the will of God, not the whims of men.
    • English Equivalent: We are not in charge of our own destiny
  • "آنرا که حساب پاکه، از محاسبه چه باکه؟"
    • Literal Translation: He who is honest at finance, what fear of audit will he have?
    • Connotation: One who's innocent is not afraid of investigation.
    • English Equivalent: The honest don't need to lie
  • "آنقدر بایست، تا علف زیر پات سبز بشه."
    • Literal Translation: Stand so long until grass grows under your foot.
    • Connotation: You can wait as much as you want, but it's useless.
    • English Equivalent: You can stay here until the cows come home.
  • "آنقدر سمن هست، که یاسمن توش گمه."
    • Literal Translation: Amongst the genus of Jasminum, a single jasmine does not stand out.
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  • "آنقدر مار خورده که افعی شده."
    • Literal Translation: He has eaten so many snakes that he has become a viper.
    • Connotation: He has dealt with so many scoundrels that he himself has become the chief rogue.
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  • "آن ممه را لولو برد."
    • Literal Translation: Bugbear took that pacifier.
    • Connotation: Applied when something one wanted/expected is no longer available.
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  • "آنوقت که جیک‌جیک مستانت بود، یاد زمستانت نبود؟"
    • Literal Translation: While you were chirping with vernal giddiness, didn't you think of brumal harshness?
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  • "آواز دهل شنیدن از دور خوشه."
    • Literal Translation: Kettledrum sounds dulcet when heard from afar.
    • Connotation: What you hear about something may not be equivalent to its qualities.
    • English Equivalent: All that glisters is not gold
  • "اجاره نشین خوش نشینه."
    • Literal Translation: A renter becomes a comfortable dweller.
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  • "ارزان خری، انبان خری."
    • Literal Translation: Buy cheap, buy a heap.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: False economy
  • "از اسب افتاده‌ایم، اما از اصل نیفتاده‌ایم."
    • Literal Translation: We have fallen off the horse, but we have not fallen from nobility.
    • Connotation: We might've had some misfortunes, but that doesn't lower our class or diminish our patriciate.
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  • "از اونجا مونده، از اینجا رونده."
    • Literal Translation: Left out of there, driven from here.
    • Connotation: Applied when one loses reputation in/is expelled from every group one belongs to.
    • English Equivalent: Sent to Coventry / black balled
  • "از اون نترس که های و هوی داره، از اون بترس که سر به زیر داره."
    • Literal Translation: Don't be afraid of he who raises a hue and cry; be afraid of he who holds his head down.
    • Connotation: The reticent can be more dangerous than the boisterous.
    • English Equivalent: Empty vessels make the most noise. Barking dogs seldom bite.
  • "از این امامزاده کسی معجزه نمی‌بینه."
    • Literal Translation: Nobody sees any miracle from this shrine.
    • Connotation: No benefit has come from this individual.
    • English Equivalent: He's a dead loss
  • "از این دم بریده هر چی بگی بر‌میاد."
    • Literal Translation: You name it, this imp has done it.
    • Connotation: This prankster doesn't stop short of any tricks.
    • English Equivalent: I wouldn't put it past him.
  • "از این ستون به آن ستون فرجه."
    • Literal Translation: From this column to that column may be a relief.
    • Connotation: Trying every situation may bring a solution.
    • English Equivalent: Try, try, try again
  • "از بی‌کفنی زنده‌ایم."
    • Literal Translation: We're alive for the lack of shroud.
    • Connotation: Our means are exiguous. (We continue to live, because we couldn't afford the funeral cost, if we were to die.)
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  • "از دست پس میزنه، با پا پیش می‌کشه."
    • Literal Translation: He pushes it away with the hand, and pulls it back with the foot.
    • Connotation: He pretends he doesn't want something, even though he reaches for it.
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  • "از تنگی چشم پیل معلومم شد --- آنانکه غنی‌ترند محتاج‌ترند."
    • Literal Translation: The smallness of elephant's eye made me realize -- The ampler they are, the more meager they are.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: The rich are the least generous
  • "از تو حرکت، از خدا برکت."
    • Literal Translation: From you, action, from God, benediction.
    • Connotation: You have to work towards something first instead of expecting luck.
    • English Equivalent: God helps those who help themselves
  • "از حق تا نا حق چهار انگشت فاصله است."
    • Literal Translation: Just and unjust are four fingers apart.
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  • "از خر افتاده، خرما پیدا کرده."
    • Literal Translation: He has fallen off the donkey, but has found a date.
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  • "از خرس موئی، غنیمته."
    • Literal Translation: Even a hair off the bear is serendipitous.
    • Connotation: It is so unlikely to obtain anything from this person that even a smidgen is a win.
    • English Equivalent: Half a loaf is better than no bread.
  • "از خر میپرسی چهارشنبه کیه؟"
    • Literal Translation: Are you asking the donkey about Wednesday?
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  • "از خودت گذشته، خدا عقلی به بچه‌هات بده."
    • Literal Translation: You aside, may God give your children some intelligence.
    • Connotation: You're dimwitted.
    • English Equivalent: Dumbass
  • "از درد لا‌علاجی به خر میگه خانمباجی."
    • Literal Translation: Out of desperation, he calls donkey dame.
    • Connotation: His options are so limited that he has to settle for the worst pinchbeck.
    • English Equivalent: Hobson's choice
  • "از دور دل و میبره، از جلو زهره رو."
    • Literal Translation: At a distance, she takes the heart; up close, she takes the gall-bladder.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: She's a Monet.
  • "از سه چیز باید حذر کرد، دیوار شکسته، سگ درنده، زن سلیطه."
    • Literal Translation: Three things must be shunned: a broken wall, a ferocious dog, and a shrew.
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  • "از شما عباسی، از ما رقاصی."
    • Literal Translation: You offer an Abbassi, we offer a dance.
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  • "از کوزه همان برون تراود که در اوست."
    • Literal Translation: What percolates out of the jug is what's inside it.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: Every tree is known by its fruit.
  • "از کیسه خلیفه می‌بخشه."
    • Literal Translation: She doles out of Caliph's purse.
    • Connotation: Someone is being generous at someone else's expense.
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  • "از گدا چه یک نان بگیرند و چه بدهند."
    • Literal Translation: Be it a bread given to the beggar, be it one taken from him.
    • Connotation: The person is so destitute that his fortune will not change with a penny given or taken.
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  • "از گیر دزد در آمده، گیر رمال افتاد."
    • Literal Translation: He escaped the thief, and fell in fortune-teller's trap.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: Out of the frying pan into the fire.
    • French Equivalent: Tomber de Charybde en Scylla!
  • "از ماست که بر ماست."
    • Literal Translation: It's from us that's upon us.
    • Connotation: We're responsible for our own misfortune.
    • English Equivalent: Keep your own counsel/ watch your back
  • "از مال پس است و از جان عاصی."
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  • "از مردی تا نامردی یک قدم است."
    • Literal Translation: Doughtiness and cowardice are one step apart.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: Cowards may die many times before their deaths.
  • "از من بدر، به جوال کاه."
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  • "از نخورده بگیر، بده به خورده."
    • Literal Translation: Take it from the famished and give it to the nourished.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: be a Robin Hood
  • "از نو کیسه قرض مکن، قرض کردی خرج نکن."
    • Literal Translation: Don't borrow from a parvenu; if you do, don't spend it.
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  • "از هر چه بدم اومد، سرم اومد."
    • Literal Translation: Whatever I disliked happened to me.
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  • "از هول هلیم افتاد توی دیگ."
    • Literal Translation: So raring for haleem, he fell into the pot.
    • Connotation: Out of extreme desire for achieving something, he got in trouble.
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  • "از یک گل بهار نمیشه."
    • Literal Translation: A single flower makes not Spring.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: One swallow does not a summer make
  • "از این گوش میگیره، از آن گوش در میکنه."
    • Literal Translation: She takes in from one ear, and lets out from the other ear.
    • Connotation: One doesn't pay attention to the given advice.
    • English Equivalent: Goes in one ear comes out the other.
  • "اسباب خونه به صاحبخونه میره."
    • Literal Translation: Household goods take after the homeowner.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: We are what we eat
  • "اسب پیشکشی رو، دندوناشو نمی‌شمرند."
    • Literal Translation: They don't count the teeth of a gift horse.
    • Connotation: Do not be critical of what has been given to you for free.
    • English Equivalent: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
  • "اسب ترکمنی است، هم از توبره میخوره هم ازآخور."
    • Literal Translation: The horse is Turkmen; it feeds off both the nose-bag and the manger.
    • Connotation: A person is trying to benefit from being close to opposing parties.
    • English Equivalent: Runs with the hare, hunts with the hound.
  • "اسب دونده جو خود را زیاد میکنه."
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  • "اسب را گم کرده، پی نعلش میگرده."
    • Literal Translation: He has lost the horse, yet, he's looking for the horseshoe.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: Closing the barn door after the horse has bolted
  • "اسب و خر را که یکجا ببندند، اگر همبو نشند همخو میشند."
    • Literal Translation: Hitch a horse and an ass to the same post; if they don't smell the same, they'll behave the same.
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  • "استخری که آب نداره، اینهمه قورباغه میخواد چکار؟"
    • Literal Translation: Why would a pool with no water need so many frogs?
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  • "اصل کار برو روست، کچلی زیر موست."
    • Literal Translation: The main thing is to be pretty and fair; bald spots are covered by the hair.
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  • "اکبر ندهد، خدای اکبر بدهد."
    • Literal Translation: If Akbar doesn't give, Akbar's God will.
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  • "اگر بیل‌زنی، باغچه خودت را بیل بزن."
    • Literal Translation: If you're an able hoer, hoe your own garden first.
    • Connotation: If you can do a job, do it for yourself first (instead of telling someone else how to do it).
    • English Equivalent: Physician, heal thyself.
  • "اگر برای من آب نداره، برای تو که نان داره."
    • Literal Translation: If it doesn't have water for me, it sure has bread for you.
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  • "اگر بپوشی رختی، بنشینی به تختی، تازه می‌بینمت بچشم آن وختی."
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  • "اگه باباشو ندیده بود، ادعای پادشاهی میکرد."
    • Literal Translation: If he hadn't seen his father, he would have claimed kingship.
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  • "اگه پشیمونی شاخ بود، فلانی شاخش بآسمان میرسید."
    • Literal Translation: If regret was a horn, the fellow's horn would reach the sky.
    • Connotation: One's very regretful.
    • English Equivalent: He's eating humble pie
  • "اگه تو مرا عاق کنی، منهم ترا عوق میکنم."
    • Literal Translation: If you cast an Aagh on me, I'll cast an Oogh on you.
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  • "اگر جراحی، پیزی خود تو جا بنداز."
    • Literal Translation: If you are a surgeon, set your own bones.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: Physician, heal thyself.
  • "اگه خدا بخواهد، از نر هم میدهد."
    • Literal Translation: If God wills, even males become fertile.
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  • "اگه خاله‌ام ریش داشت، آقا دائیم بود."
    • Literal Translation: If my aunt were bearded, she would be my uncle.
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  • "اگه خیر داشت، اسمشو می گذاشتند خیرالله."
    • Literal Translation: If he were a do-gooder, they'd call him "Saint Do-Gooder".
    • Connotation: No good comes of this person.
    • English Equivalent: He's a ne'er do well
  • "اگر دانی که نان دادن ثواب است --- تو خود میخور که بغدادت خرابست."
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  • "اگه دعای بچه‌ها اثر داشت، یک معلم زنده نمی‌موند."
    • Literal Translation: If children's prayers were answered, there wouldn't be a single teacher alive.
    • Connotation:
    • English Equivalent: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
  • "اگه زاغی کنی، روقی کنی، میخورمت."
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  • "اگه زری بپوشی، اگر اطلس بپوشی، همون کنگر فروشی."
    • Literal Translation: Even if you wear gold lame or damask, you'll still be the same acanthus-monger.
    • Connotation: No matter how you change your looks, you're the same person.
    • English Equivalent: A leopard cannot change its spots
  • "اگه علی ساربونه، میدونه شترو کجا بخوابونه."
    • Literal Translation: If Ali is the camel-driver, he knows where to rest his camel.
    • Connotation: Let the person in responsibility take care of the matter, as is the most able.
    • English Equivalent:Let the manager manage
  • "اگه کلاغ جراح بود، ماتحت خودشو بخیه میزد."
    • Literal Translation: Had the crow been a surgeon, it would have stitched its own rear.
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  • "اگه لالائی بلدی، چرا خوابت نمیبره."
    • Literal Translation: If you know how to lullaby, why can't you put yourself to sleep?
    • Connotation: Why don't you follow your own advice?
    • English Equivalent: Practice what you preach.
  • "اگه لر ببازار نره بازار میگنده."
    • Literal Translation: If the Lur doesn't go to the bazaar, everything will rot.
    • Connotation: Applied to a person who buys bad merchandise for lack of skill.
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  • "اگه مردی، سر این دسته هونگ ( هاون ) و بشکن."
    • Literal Translation: If you are man enough, break this pestle's handle.
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  • "اگه بگه ماست سفیده، من میگم سیاهه."
    • Literal Translation: If he says yogurt is white, I'll say it's black.
    • Connotation: I'll say/do anything to counter him.
    • English Equivalent: He'll argue black was white
  • "اگه مهمون یکی باشه، صاحبخونه براش گاو می‌کشه."
    • Literal Translation: For a single guest, the host can a slaughter a cow.
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