The longest day must have an end.
Meaning: Even the most difficult or lengthy struggles will eventually conclude if you endure.
Origin: A consolation sometimes called an Irish proverb: however hard or long a day, it will end. Its first appearance has not been traced.
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- Time and straw make medlars ripe. — Patience and neglect accomplish what effort cannot; some things require only waiting.
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From our idioms
- ври больше (vri bolshe) — An expression of dismissive disbelief; an ironical way of saying someone's story is uncon…
- вводить в заблуждение (vvodit' v zabluzhdenie) — To deceive or mislead someone deliberately.
- пускаться во все тяжкие (puskat'sya vo vse tyazhkiye) — To abandon restraint and indulge recklessly in vices or wrongdoing without scruple.