Quand le vin est tiré…

Expand your knowledge of French phrases:

Quand le vin est tireé il faut le boit:
Literally: When the cork is drawn, you must drink the wine:
In for a penny, in for a pound.

Un malheur ne vient jamais seul:
Literally: A misfortune never comes alone:
It never rains but it pours.

cf. Shakespeare, Hamlet:
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Taken from: ‘Don’t toss Granny in the Begonias: Faut pas pousser mémé dans les bégonias’ by Marie-Hélène Claudel-Gilly and Primrose Arnander

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