Usage examples of "à père avare, fils prodigue" in French with translation to English

Mon fils croit à Père Noël. My son believes in Father Christmas.

Dans leur famille, ils ont toujours été agriculteurs de père en fils. In their family, they have always been farmers from father to son.

Il a tendance à considérer toute chose sous un angle pratique et n'est ni avare ni prodigue. He is inclined to look at everything from the standpoint of its practicality and is neither stingy nor extravagant.

Ce terrain se transmet de père en fils. The land descended from father to son.

Tel père, tel fils. Like father, like son.

Un père et son fils représentent deux générations. A father and son represent two generations.

Il est père de deux fils. He is the father of two children.

Le père aimait Ken d'autant plus car il était son fils unique. Ken's father loved Ken all the more because he was his only son.

Ses deux fils se disputaient la maison de leur père. His two sons wanted their father's house.

Voyant le fils d'une catin jeter des pierres à la foule : "Fais attention, lui dit-il, tu pourrais blesser ton père." Seeing the son of a whore throwing rocks at a crowd, he said: "Be careful, you could hit your father."

Il était une fois un vieil homme avare qui vivait au village. Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.

Elle pleura la mort de son fils. She wept over her son's death.

La vierge la plus ménagère d'elle-même est déjà assez prodigue si elle démasque sa beauté aux regards de la lune. The chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.

Il était assez fort pour aider son père à la ferme. He was strong enough to help his father on the farm.

Mon voisin est un vieil avare grippe-sou qui ne te donnerait même pas l'heure qu'il est. My neighbor is a penny-pinching old miser who won't even give you the time of day.

M. Young aimerait que son fils travaille davantage. Mr. Young wishes his son would study harder.

Son père est-il vivant ? Is his father alive?

Nancy est avare de sourires. Nancy is economical with her smiles.

Son fils est mort dans l'accident. Her son was killed in the accident.

J'ai emprunté de l'argent à mon père. I borrowed money from my father.

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