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To look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth. - [Proverbial Phrases] To look at a shipwreck from the shore. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To look at both sides of a penny. - [Proverbial Phrases] To look for a needle in a bottle of hay. - (German) [Proverbial Phrases] To look for a needle in a bundle of hay. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To look for a needle in a haystack. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To look for five feet in a cat. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To look for noon at fourteen o'clock. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To lose his last farthing. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To lose one eye that you may deprive another of two. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To lose the ship for a halfpennyworth of tar. - [Proverbial Phrases] To love as the cat loves mustard. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make a birthday a day of grief. [To turn joy into sorrow.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To make a black man white. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To make a cat's paw of one. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To make a mountain of a molehill. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make a palace of a pigstye. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make a person turn in his grave. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make a virtue of necessity. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To make an elephant of a fly. - (Dutch, Italian) [Proverbial Phrases] To make bricks without straw. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make coqs-a-l'ane. - (Dutch) [Proverbial Phrases] To make ducks and drakes of. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make ends meet. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make fish of one and flesh of another. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make of a flea a knight cap-a-pie. - (Portuguese) [Proverbial Phrases] To make one hole by way of stopping another. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To make two bites of a cherry. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make two extremes meet. - [Proverbial Phrases] To make two hits with one stone. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To make two nails at one heat. - (Italian) [Proverbial Phrases] To make waves in a cup. [Lat., Exitare fluctus in simpulo.] - [Proverbial Phrases : Tempests] To mingle heaven and earth. [Inextricably to confuse matters.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To miss the mark. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To mix fire and water. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To move every rope: to cram on all sail. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To nourish a serpent in one's breast. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To offer one candle to God and another to the devil. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To open, as you would an oyster. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To oppose by stratagem. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To overshoot the mark. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To parade the gallows before the town. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To pay off a grudge by a vote. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To pay one in his own coin. - (Dutch, Italian, Portuguese) [Proverbial Phrases] To pay person in his own coin. - [Proverbial Phrases] To peer out the mote in another's eye and not the beam in your own. - (Dutch) [Proverbial Phrases] To piece the lion's skin with that of the fox. - (Dutch) [Proverbial Phrases] To play first fiddle. - [Proverbial Phrases] To play second fiddle. - [Proverbial Phrases] To pluck the goose without making it cry out. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] Displaying page 11 of 15 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14 15
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