English
Pronunciation
Proverb
you can't judge a book by its cover
- (idiomatic, figurative) It is not possible to make reliable judgments about things or people by considering external appearances alone.
- Synonyms: clothes don't make the man, the cowl does not make the monk, all that glitters is not gold, looks can be deceiving, appearances are deceptive, don't just scratch the surface, anything essential is invisible to the eyes, one sees clearly only with the heart
- Antonyms: clothes maketh the man, fine feathers make fine birds
Translations
it is not possible to judge things by external appearances alone
- Albanian: gjykon puna, s'gjykon guna
- Arabic: لَا تَحْكُم عَلَى كِتَابِ مِِنْ غِلَافِهِ (lā taḥkum ʕalā kitābi miin ḡilāfihi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 人不可貌相 (zh) (bùyào yǐmàoqǔrén)
- Czech: nesuď knihu podle obalu
- Danish: man skal ikke skue hunden på hårene
- Finnish: ei ole koiraa karvoihin katsominen (fi), moni kakku päältä kaunis (fi)
- French: l'habit ne fait pas le moine (fr)
- Greek: τα φαινόμενα απατούν (ta fainómena apatoún), το ράσο δεν κάνει τον παπά (to ráso den kánei ton papá)
- Ancient Greek: πώγων οὐ ποιεῖ φιλόσοφον (pṓgōn ou poieî philósophon)
- Hebrew: אַל תִּסְתַּכֵּל בַּקַּנְקַן אֶלָּא בַמֶּה שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ (he) (ál tistakél baqanqán, éla bamé sheyésh bó, literally “Don't look at the jug, but at what's inside it.”)
- Hindi: जाति ना पूछो साधु की; पूछ लीजिए ज्ञान (jāti nā pūcho sādhu kī; pūch lījie jñān, literally “Ask not a saint of his caste; rather, of his knowledge.”)
- Hungarian: ne a borító alapján ítéld meg a könyvet
- Icelandic: þú getur ekki rannsakað hund eftir hárinu
- Irish: go minic bíonn croí geal i gcraiceann donn
- Italian: l'abito non fa il monaco, non giudicare un libro dalla copertina, non giudicare dalle apparenze
- Japanese: 看板に偽りなし (kanban ni itsuwari nashi)
- Korean: 겉을 보고 속을 판단하지 마라 (geoteul bogo sogeul pandanhaji mara)
- Latin: barba non facit philosophum
- Lithuanian: nespręsk apie knygą iš viršelio
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: man kan ikke dømme boken etter omslaget, man skal aldri skue hunden på hårene (no)
- Polish: nie oceniaj książki po okładce (pl)
- Portuguese: não se pode julgar um livro pela capa (pt)
- Romanian: nu haina îl face pe om
- Russian: не суди́ о кни́ге по обло́жке (ne sudí o kníge po oblóžke)
- Scottish Gaelic: 's tric a bhios cridhe gheal ann an seiche dhonn
- Serbo-Croatian: ne sudi knjizi po koricama
- Slovak: nesúď knihu podľa obalu
- Slovene: ne sodi knjige po platnicah
- Spanish: el hábito no hace al monje
- Swedish: man skall inte döma hunden efter håren , man ska inte döma boken efter omslaget
- Tagalog: mapanlinlang ang panlabas na anyo
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: hayvanın alacası dışında, insanın alacası içinde
- Ukrainian: не судіть про книгу за її обкладинкою (ne suditʹ pro knyhu za jiji obkladynkoju)
- Urdu: ذات نہ پوچھو سادھو کی؛ پوچھ لیجئے علم (zāt nā pūcho sādhu kī; pūch lījie ilm)
- Vietnamese: tốt gỗ hơn tốt nước sơn (vi)
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