Usage examples of "malheur" in French with translation to English

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Un malheur n'arrive jamais seul. Misfortunes never come singly.
Malheur à l'enfant qui parle correctement l'anglais ; il n'en sera que moqué parmi ses camarades de classe. Woe betide the child who speaks correct English; he will be the laughing-stock of his classmates.
Le malheur ne vient jamais seul. Misfortunes never come singly.
Malheur à qui est seul, mes amis, et il faut croire que l’isolement a vite fait de détruire la raison. Woe to who be alone, my friends. It seems that social isolation quickly destroys one's reason.
Un malheur ne vient jamais seul Misfortune never comes alone
Il y avait des rumeurs de malheur. There were rumors about a misfortune.
Le malheur des fourmis fait le rire des éléphants. The misfortune of the ants makes the elephants laugh.
Il a pleuré de ses malheurs. He wept over his misfortunes.
La richesse couvre une multitude de malheurs. Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Je garde en tête que les malheurs n'arrivent jamais seuls. I bear in mind that misfortunes never come singly.
Les chats noirs portent malheur. Black cats are bad luck.
À toute chose malheur est bon. Every cloud has a silver lining.
À quelque chose malheur est bon Every cloud has a silver lining
La guerre apporte toujours le malheur. War necessarily causes unhappiness.
Malheur à moi! Qu'as-tu fait? O me, what hast thou done?
Pour comble de malheur, il tomba malade. To make things even worse, he got sick.
Pour comble de malheur, il commença à pleuvoir. To make matters worse, it began to rain.
Quatre est un nombre porte malheur au Japon. Four is an unlucky number in Japanese.
Certaines personnes pensent que les chats noirs portent malheur. Some people believe that black cats bring bad luck.
Le malheur des uns fait le bonheur des autres One man's meat is another man's poison
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