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| honey is sweet, but the bee stings (дословно: Сладок мед, да пчёлки жалятся); there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip; so near and yet so far (Anglophile) | |||
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| there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip | |||
| the grapes are sour (someone cannot have (get) the desired thing though it is near at hand or may seem so); sour grapes!; the girl looks fine, but she isn't mine; it catches your eye, but you can't catch it; between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip | |||
| видит око, да зуб неймёт: 9 phrases in 3 subjects |
| Informal | 2 |
| Makarov | 1 |
| Proverb | 6 |