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ενός κακού δοθέντος μύρια έπονται
Δηλαδή, από τη στιγμή που θα συμβεί κάτι κακό, ακολουθούν και πολλά άλλα (ΛΝΕΓ).
Για την ιστορία των παροιμιών:
http://www.answers.com/topic/it-neve...s-but-it-pours
http://www.answers.com/topic/misfort...er-come-singly
http://www.answers.com/topic/bad-things-come-in-threes
it never rains but it pours
When something occurs it often does so to excess. For example, First Aunt Sue said she and Uncle Harry were coming for the weekend and then my sister and her children said they were coming too--it never rains but it pours.
This expression may have come from either a book by Queen Anne's physician, John Arbuthnot, or an article by Jonathan Swift, both entitled It Cannot Rain But It Pours and both published in 1726.
bad things come in threes
Bad things may be specified as accidents, deaths, or other mishaps; cf. misfortunes never come singly. This is a well-attested folk superstition on both sides of the Atlantic: [1891 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. XII. 489] One of my servants having accidentally broken a glass shade, asked for two other articles of little value, a wine bottle and jam crock, that she might break them, and so prevent the two other accidents. ‥which would otherwise follow. Cf. third time lucky.
They say bad things come in threes. I don't know who the they are that say this, mind, or how they found out that that was how bad things came,‥ but‥. last weekend, they were spot on. [2002 Times 20 Mar. 22]
ενός κακού δοθέντος μύρια έπονται
Δηλαδή, από τη στιγμή που θα συμβεί κάτι κακό, ακολουθούν και πολλά άλλα (ΛΝΕΓ).
Για την ιστορία των παροιμιών:
http://www.answers.com/topic/it-neve...s-but-it-pours
http://www.answers.com/topic/misfort...er-come-singly
http://www.answers.com/topic/bad-things-come-in-threes
it never rains but it pours
When something occurs it often does so to excess. For example, First Aunt Sue said she and Uncle Harry were coming for the weekend and then my sister and her children said they were coming too--it never rains but it pours.
This expression may have come from either a book by Queen Anne's physician, John Arbuthnot, or an article by Jonathan Swift, both entitled It Cannot Rain But It Pours and both published in 1726.
bad things come in threes
Bad things may be specified as accidents, deaths, or other mishaps; cf. misfortunes never come singly. This is a well-attested folk superstition on both sides of the Atlantic: [1891 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. XII. 489] One of my servants having accidentally broken a glass shade, asked for two other articles of little value, a wine bottle and jam crock, that she might break them, and so prevent the two other accidents. ‥which would otherwise follow. Cf. third time lucky.
They say bad things come in threes. I don't know who the they are that say this, mind, or how they found out that that was how bad things came,‥ but‥. last weekend, they were spot on. [2002 Times 20 Mar. 22]