俗话

As the old saying goes : " Flowers are pleasant to look at but hard to grow ", it is much difficult to grow camellias.

正如俗话所说 “ 看花容易栽花难 ”， 栽培茶花是很不容易的。

It was the personification of the old term spick and span.

俗话用"一水没洗"形容衣服挺括簇新，在这里一点不假。

I abhor every commonplace phrase by which wit is intended.

我厌恶所有那些力图表现智慧的陈腐不堪的俗话。

As the saying goes, a drowning man clutches at a straw.

正如俗话所说， 溺水的人见到一根稻草也要抓。

On important occasion, however, he knew, as the saying is, how to make his authority felt.

可是在紧要关头他知道怎样， 象俗话所说的， 放出他的威风。