BULGARIAN PROVERBS

❶• A proverb is a simple and concrete saying that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.❷Proverbs are popularly defined as "short expressions of popular wisdom“❸They are often metaphorical.

Check your knowledgeWhat does this proverb mean?a) Everyone must know his/her place.b) You cannot change what already happened.c) One is told to do something but will never do it.

What does this proverb mean?a) You are like the ones you keep close to you.b) It is not important where you start, but where you finish.c) Good thing has happened

What does this proverb mean?a) There is a black sheep in every flockb) Quiet people are often very thoughtful.c) You are like the ones you keep close to you.

When do we use this proverb?a) When someone isn’t honest with us.b) When something has happened and it’s too late to reverse it.c) When someone bothers us.d) When something is getting badly.

What does this proverb mean?a) It’s not important where you start, but where you finish.b) If you’ve been through trouble, you are more careful next time and you know what to do.c)There aren’t sinless peopled) It doesn’t matter how you are dressed, it’s more important what’s on your head.

What does this proverb mean?a) There is a reason for everything that happened.b)If you’ve been through trouble, you are more careful next time and you know what to do.c) It is not important where you start, but where you finish.

What does this proverb mean?a) You cannot change what

already happened.

b) The situation gets out of hand.c) No matter how small,

each contribution

matters.

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