English
Alternative forms
Proverb
you can't judge a book by its cover
- (idiomatic, figuratively) It is not possible to make reliable judgments about things or people by considering external appearances alone.
Translations
it is not possible to judge things by external appearances alone
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- Portuguese: não se pode julgar um livro pela capa
- Romanian: nu haina 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
- 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
- Turkish: hayvanın alacası dışında, insanın alacası içinde
- Urdu: ذات نہ پوچھو سادھو کی؛ پوچھ لیجئے علم (zāt nā pūcho sādhu kī; pūch lījie ilm)
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