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A cow, kneeling to eat grass on the

other side of a barbed wire fence.

the grass is always greener on the other side

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Contents

1 English

1.1 Alternative forms

1.2 Proverb

1.2.1 Translations

English

Alternative forms

the grass is always greener (normal shortened form).

the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence (normallong form).

Proverb

the grass is always greener on the other side

1. Other circumstances seem more desirable than one's own but inreality are often not.

Translations

desirability of other's circumstances

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