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Proverbs with illustrations

This is about proverbs with illustrations by Takayuki Nagai. Posting will be twice a week.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

A nail is driven into Nuka, salted paste for pickling.


To get no response and produce no effect

(Japanese)
A nail is driven into Nuka, salted paste for pickling.
糠(ぬか)に釘(くぎ)

(English)
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.
Posted by Unknown at 3:39 AM

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