Birds of a feather flock together???

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- Birds of a feather flock together.

I feel that this saying is a little difficult for the other to understand. Could you teach me similar and easier expressions?

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I'm learning Vietnamese these days. Yesterday except for me, my colleagues went down together to the faculty and asked them to change our Vietnamese teacher. Before they went down, I said to them that they're Vietnamese. The present teacher is a Vietnamese and the new teacher will be definitely Vietnamese as well. The new teacher also must hear it from the other why she suddenly starts to teach us in the middle of course. The new teacher will try to understand for the present teacher's sad feeling, not for ours. We have to think that we could just make them angry about us and stand them against us. There would be nothing good for us. We have to look for another way, not changing the teacher. That's why I refused it. But even it is like that, they did today.

I wanted to say to them "Birds of a feather flock together". If I say like that, they could not understand it. Could you teach me easier expressions? "Birds flock together" is it okay?

GPY · Accepted Answer

"Birds of a feather flock together" is a set expression – you can't really alter it. "Birds flock together" may not be intelligible.

Your story is a little hard to understand in places. I gather that your classmates want a new Vietnamese teacher but you don't? I don't exactly understand where "Birds of a feather flock together" fits into this. Are you wanting to say that your classmates all agree with one other and support one another because they are all Vietnamese?

Son James · Answer

Thank you for your explanation. I will use the set expression in any case. For whether I can apply this set expression to this case or not,
What I wanted to say is that the new Vietnamese teacher should be on the side of our former teacher since they both are Vietnamese and at the same time, Vietnamese teachers. The other classmates who are all Koreans except for me,a Finlander, and an Indonesian, already went down to the faculty and said that since our female teacher's teaching style was so terrible, they didn't understand what she said. So they want to get a new teacher. As you easily guess it, In order to change to a new teacher, they need to put out a suitable reason. The reason could be not good for the female teacher. But the stuffs working in the faculty and all of the Vietnamese teachers are Vietnamese. But look at this case again. They reported the faculty like this. Since the present female teacher was so bad, the faculty must stop our present teacher to teach us Vietnamese. Then the faculty would report the reason to the female teacher and also when the faculty hires the new teacher for our class, it needs to explain to the new teacher as well why the new teacher would teach us from the middle of the course. So simply I wanted to say to them from the teacher's viewpoint like this.
"You guys thought if you guys get a new teacher, you would learn Vietnamese more fast and very well. But I don't think so. I bet that our former teacher would convey her experience and feeling to the new teacher how she has taught us Vietnamese and how terrible our studying attitudes are. The former teacher and the new teacher would be in the same position since they are colleagues, countrymen, and sometimes friends to each other. Do you think the new teacher will agree with your opinion that our former teacher was really terrible? I bet that a new teacher will try to understand our former teacher's position, not ours. Birds of a feather flock together" In this case, can I not use the set expression? Now I hope that you can understand what I wanted to say.

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