| proverb |
between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip (Slavik_K); you cannot touch your eye with your elbow (it is (was) so near and yet out of reach); the grapes are sour; sour grapes; if what you want is out of reach, there's nobody to impeach; your elbow is near, but you cannot bite it, dear; so near and yet so far (Anglophile); how near, and yet, so far! |
