A son who could not learn to paddle his own canoe does not deserve to inherit his father's fortune.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

A son who could not learn to paddle his own canoe does not deserve to inherit his father's fortune.

He begged his father not to give the puppy away.

The son wanted to have a car, but his father turned him down [wouldn't listen to him], saying that it was far beyond their means.

He went not to help his father but to borrow money from him.

She will go to Africa alone though her father doesn't agree.

A man who always does just as his father tells him will never turn into anything worthwhile.

If it had not been for his father's help, he would have failed in business.

a fatherless child

Moreover, my father was out of work at the time and there was continual discord among the members of my family.

The glory of the only begotten Son who came from the father.

He became a trawler, following in his father's footsteps.

His father was a bulwark to him in such difficult situations.

So far from working as fast as my father, I could not even work half as fast.

The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance

In Japan, there seems to be wanting that intimacy which ought to subsist between father and son.

The father forced his son to choose between succeeding to the family business or leaving the family for good.

The property left him by his father enables him to live in comfort.

When the politician died, everybody hoped the son would follow in his father's footsteps.

His father scolded him severely when he found out that he had been stealing money from his mother's purse.

The elder sons are now quite independent of their father.

Our transactions with that firm have continued unbroken since my father's generation.

Children who are in high spirits with their father rolling down the embankment.

The son's reckless behavior disturbed his old father's peace of mind.

The father wanted his son to succeed to the business whatever happened.

Due to their father's job, the family were forced to live apart [separately] from him.

Thanks to a song his father wrote, he can live off royalties.

He wanted to see a bullfight, but his father wouldn't let him go.

He wanted to see a bullfight, but his father would not let him go.

The boy went out in spite of his father's orders.

My finances will be ruined, son, if I give you such a large allowance.