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Examples:if it's plowing ask the laborer, if it's weaving ask the maid (idiom); when managing a matter, consult the appropriate specialist—lit if you marry a chicken follow the chicken, if you marry a dog follow the dog [idiom.]—if you ride a tiger, it's hard get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway—If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders.—lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)—If you can't do anything prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it.—if it's weaving, ask the maid (idiom); when managing a matter, consult the appropriate specialist—lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them—If one man holds the pass, ten thousand cannot pass (idiom); One man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies—if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age—When two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom). If it comes a fight, someone will get hurt.—lit. if it's wrong, it's wrong (idiom); make the best after a mistake—as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence—sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression)—as if degenerating insmoke (idiom); ignorant and unable to see where things are heading—if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end it? (Buddhist saying)—lit. as if enumerating one's family valuables [idiom.]—if the family lives in harmony all affairs will prosper [idiom.]—If the basin is square, the water in it will also be square. [idiom.]—If one can change after making a mistake, there is nothing better [idiom.]—like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back [idiom.]—If one is industrious, one will not be in want. [idiom.]— |