Meaning

If you request something to be given you should not question what you are given.

 

Origin

This proverbial phrase has much in common with 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth' both in meaning and by virtue of having been first recorded in print by John Heywood. Both phrases were coined well before any form of organised state support for the poor and express the widely held mediaeval opinion that if you asked for and received a gift you should be grateful for it. The 'gift horse' proverb was recorded first, in Heywood's 1546 version of A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue.

'Beggars should not be choosers' didn't appear until the 1562 version of'Proverbs'.

Beggers should be no choosers, but yet they will: 
Who can bryng a begger from choyse to begge still?

The proverb is more commonly expressed these days as 'beggars can't be choosers'. This leads to an ambiguity in meaning between 'beggars are unable to be choosers' and 'beggars ought not to be choosers'. Of course, the latter is the original meaning.

 

 

Synonyms for beggar

asker, borrower, bum, deadbeat, hobo, mendicant, panhandler, rustler, scrounger, supplicant,   supplicator, tramp, vagabond

 

 

Synonyms for cant

noun hypocritical statement

affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham holiness, show

 

 

Antonyms for cant

frankness, honesty, openness, reality, sincerity, standard, truth, truthfulness

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning

A task is soon accomplished if several people help.

 

Origin

This was written by John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580) who was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs.  Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no works survive.

 

Synonyms for many

adj profuse, abundant

abounding, alive with, bounteous, bountiful, copious, countless, crowded, divers, frequent, 

innumerable,   legion, lousy with, manifold, multifarious, multifold, multiplied, multitudinous, myriad, no endof, numberless, numerous, plentiful, populous, prevalent, rife, several, sundry, teeming, umpteen, uncounted, varied, various

 

Antonyms for many

few, scarce

 

Synonyms for make

verb create, build

accomplish, adjust, arrange, assemble, beget, brew, bring about, cause, compose, conceive, constitute, construct, cook, cook up, dash off, draw on, dream up, effect, engender, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, generate, get ready, give rise to, hatch, initiate, invent, knock off, lead to, manufacture, mold, occasion, originate, parent, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, secure, shape, spawn, synthesize, tear off, throw together, whip, whip out

 

Antonyms for make

break, calculate, confuse, crush, demolish, demote, deny, derange, destroy, disallow, disarrange, discourage, dismantle, disorder, disorganize, disperse, dissuade, divide, end, fail, finish, give up, halt, ignore, kill, lose, measure, neglect, prevent, raze, refuse, refute, renounce, ruin, scatter, separate, stop, tell truth, terminate, veto

 

Synonyms for light

adj illuminated

ablaze, aglow, bright, brilliant, burnished, clear, cloudless, flashing, fluorescent, glossy,  glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rich, scintillant, shining, shiny, sunny, unclouded, unobscured, vivid, well-lighted, well-lit

 

Antonyms for light

black, brunette, cloudy, dark, darkened, difficult, dim, dull, dusky, gloomy, grave, heavy, laborious, obscure, serious, solemn, unhappy, weighted

 

Synonyms for work

noun labor, choreassignment, 

attempt, commission, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, exertion, functioning, grind, grindstone, industry, job, moil, muscle,  obligation, pains, performance, production, push, salt mines, servitude, slogging, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat, task, toil, travail, 

trial,   trouble, undertaking

 

Antonyms for work

entertainment, failure, fun, idleness, laziness, loss, pastime, unemployment

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quality in this saying means elegance, honesty, good manners - in essence, excellent personality traits. So this type of identity will always be welcomed in the world. It is not a trendy thing but a unique appealing ,polite temperament that will always be in style - no matter the times, year or country.

 

Levi’s slogan

 

Synonyms for quality

noun characteristic, feature

affection, affirmation, aspect, attribute, character, condition, constitution, description, 

element, endowment, essence, factor, genius, individuality, kind, make, mark, name of tune, nature, nature of beast, parameter, peculiarity, predication, property, savor, sort, 

trait, virtue, way of it

 

Synonyms for never

adv not at any time

at no time, don't hold your breath, forget it, nevermore, no way, not at all, not ever, 

not in any way, not in the least, not on your life, not under any condition

 

Antonyms for never

always, forever

 

Synonyms for fashion

noun latest style, prevailing taste

appearance, bandwagon, chic, configuration, convention, craze, cry, cultism, cultus, 

custom, cut, dernier cri, fad, faddism, figure, form, furor, in thing, last word, latest, latest thing, line, look, make, mode, model, mold, newest wrinkle, pattern, rage, shape, thing, 

tone, trend, usage, vogue

 

Antonyms for fashion

departure, disorganization

 

 

 

 

 

 

Origin
Heinz 57 is a shortened form of a historical advertising slogan "57 Varieties" by the H. J. Heinz Company located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It has come to mean anything that is comprised or mixed from a lot of parts or origins. It was developed from the marketing campaign that told consumers about the numerous products available from the Heinz company.

 

Synonyms for variety

noun difference

array, assortment, change, collection, combo, conglomeration, cross section, departure, discrepancy, disparateness, divergency, diversification, diversity, 

fluctuation, heterogeneity, incongruity, intermixture, many sidedness, medley, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, mixture, modification, multifariousness, multiplicity, mélange, potpourri, range, 

shift, soup, stew, variance, variation

 

Antonyms for varieties

agreement, similarity, uniformity