To ask pears of an elm tree.

Similar proverbs in another language

 Latin

• Colubra restem non parit.   Show translation The snake does not give birth to the rest.
• Dat pullos tales, qualis dignoscitur ales.   Show translation He gives such chicks as are known as wings.

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 French

• D'un sac à charbon il ne saurait sortir blanche farine.   Show translation You can't get white flour out of a coal sack.

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 German

• Wie der Vogel, so das Ei.   Show translation Like bird, like egg.
• Von Dornen liest man keine Trauben.   Show translation You don't pick grapes from thorns.

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 Czech

• Co se z kočky narodí, nebude než myši chytati.   Show translation That which is born of a cat shall not catch but mice.
• Co kočka rodí, to myši loví.   Show translation What the cat gives birth, the mice hunt.
• Jest z vlčího hnízda, nebude než vlk.   Show translation He's from the wolf's nest, he'll be nothing but a wolf.

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