• Waar een wil is is een weg.
  • Literal Translation: "Where there's a will, there is a way."
  • Meaning: "There is a way to achieve anything, if one really tries."

• Water naar zee dragen.
  • Literal Translation: "Carrying water to the sea."
  • Meaning: "Futile activity."
  • English proverb: "Carrying coals to Newcastle."

• Waar het hart vol van is daar loopt de mond van over.
  • Literal Translation: "What the heart is full of, the mouth overflows with."
  • Meaning: "If someone is enthusiastic about an idea he will be always talking about it."

• Wat de boer niet kent dat eet hij niet.
  • Literal Translation: "What the farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat."
  • Meaning: "A stick-in-the-mud will try nothing new."

• Weet wat je zegt, maar zeg niet alles wat je weet.
  • Literal Translation: "Know what you say, but don't say all that you know."
  • Meaning: "Be sure of your facts before speaking, but some things are best left unsaid."

• Weten waar Abraham de mosterd haalt.
  • Literal Translation: "Knowing where Abraham gets the mustard."
  • Meaning: "Being well-informed." Also "He has turned 50."

• Wie de bal kaatst, moet hem verwachten.
  • Literal Translation: "He who throws the ball, must expect it [back]."
  • Meaning: "Expect the repercussions of your actions."
  • English equivalent: "What goes around, comes around."

• Wie de schoen past, trekke hem aan.
  • Literal Translation: "He whom the shoe fits should put it on."
  • Meaning: An appeal to take responsibility for ones actions.
  • English equivalent: "If the shoe fits, wear it."

• Wie goed doet, goed ontmoet.
  • Literal Translation: "He who does good, will meet good."
  • Meaning: "Who does good things to others, will receive good things in return."

• Wie het laatst lacht, lacht het best.
  • Literal Translation: "He who laughs last, laughs best."
  • Meaning: Don't laugh your enemy in the face when you are temporarily winning, because he can be more determined to defeat you.
  • Meaning: The last man standing in a lethal conflict has a real good reason to party.
  • English equivalent: He who laughs last, laughs loudest

• Wie zijn neus schendt, schendt zijn aangezicht."
  • Literal translation: "He who hurts his nose, hurts his face."
  • Meaning: Accusing a close relative will usually damage your own reputation as well.
  • English equivalent: "To cut off one's nose to spite one's face."

• Wie wind zaait, zal storm oogsten.
  • Literal translation: "He who seeds wind, shall harvest storm."
  • Meaning: "Who causes trouble, will be a victim of the trouble."
  • English equivalent: A more specific form of "You reap what you sow."

• Wie zwijgt stemt toe.
  • Literal translation: "He who is quiet, agrees"
  • Meaning: "Taking someone's silence as a sign that they agree."

• Zachte heelmeesters maken stinkende wonden.
  • Literal translation: "Gentle healers make stinking wounds."
  • Meaning: "It is better to treat a problem thoroughly even if the treatment is painful, otherwise it may get worse."

• Ze niet allemaal op een rijtje hebben.
  • Literal translation: "Not having all of them in a row."
  • Meaning: "Being a dime short of a dozen."

• Zich met hand en tand verzetten.
  • Literal translation: "To resist with hand and tooth."
  • Meaning: "To resist with every possible means, not giving in in any way."
  • English equivalent: "Digging one's heels in."

• Zich ergens met een Jantje van Leiden afmaken
  • Literal translation: "To get off with a Jan van Leiden"
  • Meaning: "To make lame excuses, to deliver sloppy and hasty work.
  • Note:Jan van Leiden was a 16th century cult leader, infamous for his inane ramblings.

• Zij zijn twee handen op één buik.
  • Literal translation: "They are two hands on one belly.";
  • Meaning: "They don't let you have a say in a decision, because they are always cooperating with each other to exclude you."
  • English equivalent: "(They are) hand in glove."

• Zijn hand er niet voor omdraaien.
  • Literal translation: "Not turning his hand around for it."
  • Meaning: "It is an easy job for him."

• Zoals de waard is, vertrouwt hij zijn gasten.
  • Literal translation: "Like the innkeeper is, so he trusts his guests."
  • Meaning: "A person who is untrustworthy is unlikely to trust others."
  • English equivalent: "You measure other people's cloth by your own yard."

• Zoals het klokje thuis tikt, tikt het nergens.
  • Literal translation: "Like the clock ticks at home, so it ticks nowhere [else].
  • Meaning: "You can travel the world, but the best place is home."
  • English equivalent: "There's no place like home."

• Zo dom als het achterend van een varken.
  • Literal translation: "As stupid as a pig's bottom."
  • Meaning: "Very stupid."

• Zo lang er leven is, is er hoop.
  • Literal translation: "As long as there's life, there is hope."
  • Meaning: "Never despair."
  • English equivalent: "Where there's life, there's hope."
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