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ce se naște din pisică, șoareci mănâncă

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Literally, whatever is born out of cat, it is mice that it eats. Attested for the first time, in a slightly different form, as the subtitle of Nicolae Filimon's 1862 novel Ciocoii vechi și noi: "Ce naște din pisică șoareci mănâncă".

Proverb

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ce se naște din pisică, șoareci mănâncă

  1. the apple does not fall far from the tree, like father, like son, like mother, like daughter

See also

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