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“embrasse mal étreint” in English
14 examplesQui trop embrasse mal étreint.
You should not bite off more than you can chew.
Qui trop embrasse mal étreint.
If we try for too much, we will end up with less.
Comme on dit: "qui trop embrasse mal étreint".
As it is put so well in French: 'qui trop embrasse mal étreint'.
Qui trop embrasse mal étreint, dit le proverbe.
If you cast your net too wide, you risk catching too many sprats, as the saying goes.
Un proverbe suédois dit que "qui trop embrasse mal étreint".
A Swedish proverb says that 'if you are too greedy, you easily lose the lot'.
Monsieur le Président, dans mon pays on dit: «Qui trop embrasse mal étreint».
Mr President, 'grasp all, lose all', as we say in my country.
Dans un autre ordre d'idées, on dit en espagnol «qui trop embrasse, mal étreint».
To pass on to other things, in Spanish we have a saying that: "He who attempts too much ends up doing nothing properly' .
À cet égard, je tiens à citer le proverbe français «Qui trop embrasse mal étreint».
In this context, I should like to quote the French proverb ‘grasp all, lose all’.
Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs, un proverbe français dit: «Qui trop embrasse mal étreint.»
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a French proverb that says that ‘he who grasps at too much loses everything’.
Il existe un autre sage dicton hongrois, qui se traduirait en français par: qui trop embrasse mal étreint.
There is another wise Hungarian saying: he who grabs a lot takes little.
Je citerais un dicton : "qui trop embrasse mal étreint" ; j'ai l'impression que c'est le cas dans le domaine du droit d'asile.
There is a saying: 'do not bite off more than you can chew'; and I have the feeling that this is the current situation in the field of asylum.
- Monsieur le Président, il existe un dicton néerlandais qui dit que "" ou pour dire les choses autrement, "qui trop embrasse, mal étreint".
– Mr President, there is a Dutch saying, '' or, to put it another way ‘grasp all, lose all’.
Comme le dit le proverbe, "qui trop embrasse mal étreint", si nous voulons garantir le contrôle, il faut éviter que l'objet soit absolument général.
At the end of the day "he that too much embraceth, holds little", as we say in Spain, so if we want to manage control, we cannot all have the same objective.
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