Throw a sprat to catch a whale.
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Sprat
//spɹæt//
Synonyms for "sprat" (7 found)
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52 translations across 36 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- papalinë noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μαίνη noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Asturian
3 entries- chapla noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- llacha noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- trancha noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ко́пърка noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- трицо́на noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- ца́ца noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- шпрот noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Czech
1 entries- šprot noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Dutch
1 entries- sprot noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Esperanto
1 entries- sproto noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Estonian
2 entries- kilu noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- sprott noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Faroese
1 entries- brislingur noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Finnish
3 entries- anjovis noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- kilohaili noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- sardelli noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
French
1 entries- sprat noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Galician
1 entries- trancho noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
German
1 entries- Sprotte noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Greek
1 entries- παπαλίνα noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Hungarian
1 entries- sprotni noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Indonesian
1 entries- japuh noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Irish
4 entries- bioránach noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- maghar noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- salán noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- sprot noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Italian
2 entries- papalina noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- spratto noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Latin
1 entries- maena noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Māori
1 entries- kupae noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- brisling noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- brisling noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Old English
1 entries- sprott noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Persian
1 entries- کیلکا noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Polish
2 entries- szprot noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- szprotka noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Portuguese
1 entries- espadilha noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Romanian
1 entries- sprot noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Russian
2 entries- ки́лька noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- шпрот noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Scots
1 entries- garvie noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- garbhag noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sleđica noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
- слеђица noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Spanish
1 entries- espadín noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Swedish
1 entries- skarpsill noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Turkish
1 entries- çaça noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Welsh
1 entries- corbennog noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Yiddish
1 entries- שפּראָט noun (any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel.
Source: tatoeba (9770620)
Throw a sprat to catch a mackerel.
Source: tatoeba (11212789)
The sprat is a small marine fish that lives in numerous schools.
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