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Sentence #705807

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 kremel kremel November 7, 2021 November 7, 2021 at 5:06:31 PM UTC link Permalink

This makes no sense in English.

Google Translate translates the original Dutch as: "Where there is chopping, chips fall." Looks like we have some metaphorical translations already - can we change this more literal one to fit Google's attempt, which does actually sound like an English sentence?

brauchinet brauchinet November 7, 2021, edited November 7, 2021 November 7, 2021 at 5:49:22 PM UTC, edited November 7, 2021 at 6:05:37 PM UTC link Permalink

Funnily, Germans seem to have believed for ages that this is the English version of the proverb.


https://books.google.at/books?i...ips%22&f=false

https://www.dict.cc/?s=Wo+gehobelt+wird

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #652913.

From chipping come chips.

added by Manfredo, January 10, 2011
➜ #652913

linked by Manfredo, January 10, 2011
➜ #864156No se puede hacer una tortilla sin romper los huevos.

linked by lazarus1907, December 7, 2012
➜ #3104582Veistelystä tulee lastuja.

linked by Kalle63, March 18, 2014
➜ #652913

unlinked by Horus, May 11, 2018
➜ #422908Waar gehakt wordt, vallen spaanders.

linked by Horus, May 11, 2018