Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Arabic term or phrase:
كل إناء بما فيه ينضح
English translation:
What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh/blood
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Saleh Dardeer
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Nov 22, 2013 12:03
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Arabic term
كل إناء ينضح بما فيه
Arabic to English
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كل إناء ينضح بما فيه
كل إناء ينضح بما فيه
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Nov 26, 2013 05:28: Saleh Dardeer changed "Field (specific)" from "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" to "Idioms / Maxims / Sayings"
Nov 26, 2013 05:28: Saleh Dardeer Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh/blood
HTH
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Note added at 42 mins (2013-11-22 12:46:05 GMT)
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Lifelong habits or inherited characteristics cannot be concealed (a similar idea is conveyed by blood of Chancery). The saying is recorded from the late 15th century, and in earlier usage often contained a negative (as in John Heywood's Dialogue of Proverbs (1546), ‘It will not out of the fleshe, that's bred in the bone’, which altered the form and emphasis.
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.201...
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Note added at 42 mins (2013-11-22 12:46:05 GMT)
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Lifelong habits or inherited characteristics cannot be concealed (a similar idea is conveyed by blood of Chancery). The saying is recorded from the late 15th century, and in earlier usage often contained a negative (as in John Heywood's Dialogue of Proverbs (1546), ‘It will not out of the fleshe, that's bred in the bone’, which altered the form and emphasis.
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.201...
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Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+2
2 mins
A vessel filters what it contains
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Peer comment(s):
agree |
Hasna Chakir
6 mins
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agree |
Doaa Alnajjar
8 mins
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neutral |
Saleh Dardeer
: I cannot find any English source for this expression; rather, I found it in many Arabic websites giving mostly literal translations of some Arabic proverbs
52 mins
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10 mins
Every container oozes its contents
Every container oozes its contents
or
Every container leeks its content
or
Every container leeks its content
+2
1 hr
What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh
http://www.wata.cc/forums/showthread.php?11549-مقابل-كل-اناء...
http://www.answers.com/topic/what-s-bred-in-the-bone-will-co...
Lifelong habits or inherited characteristics cannot be concealed.
http://www.answers.com/topic/what-s-bred-in-the-bone-will-co...
Lifelong habits or inherited characteristics cannot be concealed.
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Shereen Whiten, BA.
2 hrs
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Thanks, Shereen.
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agree |
Houda Nashawi
8 hrs
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Thanks Houda. This one belongs to Saleh though since he posted first :) Glad you agreed with him as I did too.
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