De wet van Murphy
Van de wet van Murphy heeft u vast wel eens gehoord. Weet u dat dit een typisch Iers gezegde is? We zetten een aantal Ierse spreekwoorden onder elkaar, waarmee u in ieder geval in Ierland goede sier maakt. Weet u wat ze betekenen?
1. | John’s a really good salesman. He’s full of blarney. | a. | Sometimes, it’s better to stop while things are going well. |
2. | I know it’s been a bad day. Let’s have a drink. What whiskey will not cure there's no cure for. | b. | A mother will always remain the most important influence in a woman’s life. |
3. | Guinness didn’t become successful simply through luck. There is no luck except where there is discipline. | c. | A good drink will solve all problems. |
4. | We made a mess of our presentation. We spent too long on it trying to get it right. Long churning makes bad butter. | d. | You can’t make something better than what it is. |
5. | Marriages are all happy; its having breakfast together that causes all the trouble. | e. | Always go to a specialist for a good job. |
6. | The computer we bought from the on-line electronic shop wasn’t very good. We should have gone to a specialist computer shop. As they say never buy bread from a butcher. | f. | Make the most of one's opportunities while you have the chance. |
7. | Let’s make hay while the sun shines and work on the new advertising campaign. | g. | If something can go wrong, it will go wrong. |
8. | Your son is your son until he marries, but your daughter is your daughter until you die. | h. | Success is attained through hard work, not through luck. |
9. | Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong today: I had a car accident, I messed up the meeting, my computer broke. It was Murphy’s Law | i. | Sometimes it’s best to do things separately in a marriage. |
10. | It doesn’t matter what we do with this new product. All the world wouldn’t make a racehorse from an ass. | j. | To be persuasive; smooth, wheedling talk; flattery; to talk constantly. |
Antwoorden: 1j, 2c, 3h, 4a, 5i, 6e, 7f, 8b, 9g, 10d
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