English
Phrase
speak of the devil and he appears
- (idiomatic) Alternative form of speak of the devil
Translations
expression used when a person mentioned in the current conversation happens to arrive
- Bulgarian: говорим за вълка, а той в кошарата (govorim za vălka, a toj v košarata)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 說曹操，曹操到 (zh), 说曹操，曹操到 (zh) (shuō Cáo Cāo, Cáo Cāo dào)
- Finnish: siinä paha missä mainitaan
- French: quand on parle du loup on en voit la queue (fr)
- Friulian: tu fevelis dal diàul e vegnin fûr i cuars!
- German: wenn man vom Teufel spricht, kommt er gerannt
- Italian: parli del diavolo e spuntano le corna
- Japanese: 噂をすれば影がさす (ja) (うわさをすればかげがさす, uwasa-o sureba kage-ga sasu)
- Korean: 호랑이도 제 말 하면 온다 (ko) (horangido je mal hamyeon onda)
- Norwegian: når man snakker om sola, så skinner den
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- Polish: o wilku mowa, a wilk tu (pl)
- Portuguese: falando do diabo, aparece o rabo
- Russian: о во́лке помо́лвка, а волк и тут (o vólke pomólvka, a volk i tut), лёгок на поми́не (ru) (ljógok na pomíne), про се́рого речь, а се́рый навстре́чь (pro sérovo rečʹ, a séryj navstréčʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ми о вуку а вук на врата
- Roman: mi o vuku a vuk na vrata
- Spanish: hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma
- Swedish: när man talar om trollen så står de i farstun (sv)
- Turkish: iti an, çomağı hazırla
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