Celebrate the new year with the Idioms for new year

Happy new year, let's ring out the old year and ring in the new by learning some idioms which are connected with New Year

.A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year

.So many mists in March, so many frosts in May

.April and May are the keys of the year

.Coming events cast their shadows before

.Happy is the bride that the sun shines on

Turn of the year/century: The time when a new year/ century starts: It was built at the turn of the year

.One swallow does not make a summer

.One flower does not make a garland

A Dictionary of Proverbs and Colloquial Idioms

Oxford advanced learner's dictionary2005

Farhang Moaser one-volume Millennium English Persian Dictionary

Chance Proverbs and Idioms

Maryam: Tough luck! I studied a lot, but now look, should it be my marks? Should it be the result of my efforts? The difference between the marks I received and what I anticipated are from the earth to heaven. It seems that the odds are against me

Sarah: It has nothing to do with chance at all. You studied well, but you passed the exams carelessly

Maryam: You mean the chance doesn't exist and it's all groundless and phoney? In my opinion chance exists in every thing. In education, in work, in marriage, in everything you imagine

Sarah: I don't believe in chance at all. As far as I'm concerned, it's ourselves who make our chances. If we study, we try to study carefully, if we are about to work, we have the essential perseverance. If we are going to marry, we try to think wisely and have sensitivity in choice; we never fail in our life

Maryam: So what about sayings about chance like: When fortune knocks, embrace her. To be down in one's luck. To be born under a lucky star. What will happen to them lady? I think it's better to be born luck than rich

Sarah: That's right. I think the proverbs such as Christmas comes but once a year, or if heaven drops a date, open your mouth are showing us the importance and value of time. They ask us to be aware of the opportunities and good situations which are set in our way and use them perfectly

Maryam: Some students pass the exams by the seat of their pants, but successfully. What is the cause of it

Sarah: (laughing) I don't know. You should ask the secret of their success of themselves

Maryam: But as you know we have a snowball's chance in hell in finding job in our course

Sarah: Oh, come on! You are a wet blanket. In the worst situations know that God is beside you. Trust him. Even if, as you said the odds are against you, know it that God is examining you. So try to overcome the difficulties. Try to be a winner in the game of chance

 The real love

?A student asked his lecturer: What's love

The lecturer answered:" Go to a farm and

 bring the lushest branch but while passing

 the farm remember that you can't come

.back to pick up another branch

The student went to the farm and he returned

 .after a long time

?"The lecturer asked:" What did you bring    

He answered ruefully:" Nothing! Whatever I

went forward I saw lushest branches and

 I went to the end of the farm in the hope of

.  finding the lushest branch

"!…The lecturer said:" This is love

?" The student asked:" So what is marriage

 The lecturer said:" Go to a forest and bring

 the tallest tree but remember that you can't return

" …to the back

The student went and he came back with

. a tree after a short time

The lecturer asked the student what happened

and he said in reply:" I went to the forest and

 I chose the first tall tree I saw. I afraid if

".I go forward, I return empty-handed

"! …The lecturer said again:" This is marriage

...And this is the difference between love and marriage

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Translated by: Glorya 

The grown up student 

Sakkaki was a metal worker and artisan, who could make a very elegant ink-well with a more elegant lock with such a skill and exactness which was worthy to dedicate to a king. He was anticipated all sort of encouragement and applause for his art. He presented it to the king with thousands of hopes and desires. At first, as it was expected, it was given attentions, but an event happened that changed the mind and way of Sakkaki's life. While the king was busy watching that industry and Sakkaki was amazed with his illusion too, they were announced that –a critic scientist or a jurisconsult- is entering.

 As soon as he entered, the king was such busy entertaining and speaking with him, that he forgot Sakkaki and his industry and art.

 Noticing this spectacle causes a deep transition in his soul. And he found out that the appreciation and encouragement which must, won't occur and all those hopes and desires was inopportune. But Sakkaki's highly flying soul wasn't that could quiet down. Now what should he do? He thought he would do what others did and he should go the way others went. He should follow lessons and books to seek his lost hopes and desires in that way.

Although it wasn't easy for an aged man who passed his youth period to study with just ripened children and to start from ABC, but it's never too late to mend. Worse that all, when he started to study, he didn't find any talent and taste in himself toward this work. Perhaps working for years in industrial and technical works hardened his scientific and literary taste. But neither passing age nor putting off talent, none could make him far from his decision. He started with a high effort, since something happened.

 A teacher, who taught them SHAFE EE science, taught him this affair:" The lecturer's idea is that a dog skin is cleaned by tanning."

 Sakkaki repeated this sentence tens times in order to be able to do his exam well, but just as he wanted to answer, he expressed

in this way:" The dog idea is that a lecturer's skin is cleaned by tanning."

The audience burst out laughing. It was proved to all that this old man who took a fancy to study at old age, came to nothing

Sakkaki couldn't stay at school nor at city, so did he go to desert. The extensive world became narrow for him. He reached to the foot of a mount by chance; he recognized that water dripped from a high position on a rock drop by drop. And due to the continuous falling in, it pierced the rock. He thought for an instant and an idea entered his mind in a flash and said in himself:" However untalented my mind is, it's not harder than stone. It's not possible that continuance and perseverance remain ineffective. He came back and spent so much effort and perseverance that his talent was restored and he turned into the one of the unparalleled scientist in literature in the long run

Dastan Rastan/lecturer Motahhari

Translated by: Glorya