you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
можно предоставить кому-либо возможность, но нельзя заставить делать что-либо силой
Пример использования идиомы you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink):
Alec was given the opportunity to study at a community college, but he decided not to enter the college. Well, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Комментарии:
Войдите или зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы оставить комментарий
Другие идиомы:
- get on one's high horse
- work like a horse
- horse around
- back the wrong horse
- straight from the horse's mouth
- eat like a horse
- change horses in midstream
- horse trade
- horse sense
- hold one's horses
- dark horse
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- bet on the wrong horse
- put the cart before the horse
- horse of a different color