You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Similar proverbs in another language

 Latin

• Tardum est annosos discere vincla canes.   Show translation It is slow to learn to leash dogs.
• Difficile est canem veterem assuescere loris.   Show translation It is difficult to get an old dog used to a leash.
• Est annosa canis vix assuefacta catenis.   Show translation It is an old dog hardly accustomed to chains.

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 French

• Qui jeune n' apprend, vieux ne saura.   Show translation If you don't learn young, you won't know old.

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 German

• Ein alter Hund lernt keine Kunststücke.   Show translation An old dog does not learn tricks.
• Einen alten Bären ist schwer tanzen lehren.   Show translation It's hard to teach an old bear to dance.

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 Czech

• Starého psa novým kouskům nenaučíš.   Show translation You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
• Čím starší kozel, tím tvrdší roh.   Show translation The older the goat, the harder the horn.
• Čím starší beran, tím tvrdší roh.   Show translation The older the ram, the harder the horn.
• Starý pes k řetězu nepůjde.   Show translation The old dog won't go to the chain.
• Čím kocour starší, tím ocas neohebnější.   Show translation The older the cat, the more inflexible the tail.
• Starého psa neuč v povod.   Show translation Don't teach an old dog in the basin.
• Starý kůň se nenaučí skákati.   Show translation An old horse can't learn to jump.
• Starého kosa neodnaučíš zpívat.   Show translation You can't teach an old blackbird to sing.
• Starého vola nenaučíš tahat.   Show translation You can't teach an old dude to pull.
• Těžko starého psa učiti.   Show translation It is hard to teach an old dog.

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