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Examples:it never rains but it pours—slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.—It's not pretty but it works.—It never rains but it pours.—the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise—goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.—It takes ten years nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.—Heaven's net is wide meshed, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73).—I really want do it, but don't have the resources.—lit. at first raw, later ripe (idiom); unfamiliar at first but you get used it—want stop but can't (idiom, from Analects); find it impossible to give up—perfect in structure, but not much of it—unfamiliar at first but you get used it—Excellent theory, but the practice does not bear it out.—pretense that turns inreality (idiom); to play at make-believe, but accidentally make it true—boasts a lot, but nothing comes of it [idiom.]—lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best [idiom.]— |