EN: thing
FR: chose
ZH: 事物 (shìwù)
JA: 物 (mono)
IT: cosa
DE: Ding
ES: cosa
RU: вещь (veshch')
EO: afero

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paint leg pluralS on snake


EN: Draw legs on a snake.
FR: dessiner un serpent et lui ajouter des pattes.
ZH: 画蛇添足。 (Huàshétiānzú.)
EO: desegnu serpenton kaj aldonu krurojn al ĝi.

[ZH] – A chengyu. Meaning « gild the lily » ([FR]: « le mieux est l’ennemi du bien ».) / Refers to a group of friends having a contest in which they had to paint a snake as quickly as possible. The one who finished first, thought he had time to add legs to his snake. What he did. But finally he was disqualified because he had not drawn the right animal.

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do thing bad alot andS say be innocent


EN: Doing so many bad deeds someone is pretending to be innocent.
FR: Tout en commettant autant de mauvaises actions, quelqu'un se fait passer pour un innocent.
HI: नौ सौ चूहे खाके बिल्ली हज को चली (Nau sau chuhe kha ke billi haj ko chali)
EO: Farante tiom da malbonaj agoj, iu ŝajnigas sin senkulpa.

[HI] – Litt. « After eating 900 rats, the cat left to make the hajj. » – Meaning « Commit sins on weekdays and go to temple/church on Sundays ».

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