Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Croatian term or phrase:
Zrno po zrno pogača, kamen po kamen palača
English translation:
many a little makes a mickle
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Domagoj
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Croatian term
Zrno po zrno pogača, kamen po kamen palača
Croatian to English
Art/Literary
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
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Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | many a little makes a mickle |
Mira Stepanovic
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| 5 | Inch by inch, everything is a cinch. |
Mirta Didara
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Proposed translations
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10 mins
Mira Stepanovic
Serbia
Serbia
Serbia
Scientific & Tech. translator, Engineer
Native in: Serbian 
, Serbo-Croat
Works in: English to Serbian, English to Serbo-Croat, Serbian to English, and 11 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
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many a little makes a mickle
ili:
penny and penny laid up will be many
grain by grain and the hen fills her belly
little and often fills the purse
ref. Rečnik idioma, B. Milosavljević, Margot Vilijams-Milosavljević
penny and penny laid up will be many
grain by grain and the hen fills her belly
little and often fills the purse
ref. Rečnik idioma, B. Milosavljević, Margot Vilijams-Milosavljević
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
31 mins
Mirta Didara
Croatia
Croatia
Native in Croatian
Specializes in field
Croatia
Native in: Croatian
Works in: English to Croatian, Croatian to English, English to Serbo-Croat, and 13 more.
Inch by inch, everything is a cinch.
Malo po malo, sve se da napraviti.
Pandan je ona kineska: Put od 10 000 milja pocinje prvim korakom.
Dodatne reference se mogu naci u zbirkama poslovica.
Pandan je ona kineska: Put od 10 000 milja pocinje prvim korakom.
Dodatne reference se mogu naci u zbirkama poslovica.
Example sentence:
Inch by inch, anything is a cinch.
Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. (Alternativno: Mile by mile, life is a trial. )
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