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To take one down a peg or two. - Proverb To take one foot out the mire and put the other into it. - Proverb, (Spanish) To take one up before he is down. - Proverb To take opportunity by the forelock. - Proverb, (French, Spanish) To take out a burning coal with another's hand. - Proverb, (Spanish) To take the bull by the horns. - Proverb To take the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw. - Proverb, (French) To take the gilt off the gingerbread. - Proverb To take the law into one's own hands. - Proverb To take the rough with the smooth. - Proverb To take the will for the deed. - Proverb To take the wind out of one's sails. - Proverb To take to your heels. - Proverb, (Spanish) To take two boars in one thicket. - Proverb, (Latin) To take Villadiego's boots. - Proverb, (Spanish) To tell tales out of school. - Proverb To thrash one's jacket. - Proverb, (Spanish) To throw a sprat to catch a whale. - Proverb To throw dust in one's eyes. - Proverb, (Latin) To throw good money after bad. - Proverb To throw oil on flames. - Proverb, (Latin) To throw oil on the fire. - Proverb, (Dutch) To throw pearls before swine. - Proverb To throw the halter after the ass. - Proverb, (Italian) To throw the helve after the hatchet. - Proverb, (French, Spanish) To throw the rope after the bucket. - Proverb, (Italian) To throw the stone and conceal the hand. - Proverb, (Spanish) To throw up a feather in the air, and see where it falls. - Proverb, (Spanish) To tread softly like a thief. - Proverb, (Latin) To turn an honest penny. - Proverb To turn cat in pan. - Proverb To turn fishmonger on Easter-eve. - Proverb, (French) To turn over a new leaf. - Proverb To turn things upside down. - Proverb, (Latin) To undo crosses in a straw loft (i.e. to part all the straws that they may not lie crosswise; to be over nice). - Proverb, (Spanish) To unite that which cannot be united. To attempt an impossibility. - Proverb, (Latin) To untie the knot. [To solve a difficulty.] - Proverb, (Latin) To use his own beast to fetch home evil. [To be the author of his own misery.] - Proverb, (Latin) To wake a sleeping lion. - Proverb To wash a blackamoor white. - Proverb, (Dutch, Greek) To wash dirty linen in public. - Proverb To wash the Ethiopian. [Labour in vain.] - Proverb, (Latin) To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve. - Proverb To wear the breeches. - Proverb To wear the willow. - Proverb To weep at the tomb of a stepmother. [Hypocrisy.] - Proverb, (Latin) To wet one's whistle. - Proverb To whip the air. - Proverb, (Latin) To whiten ivory with ink. To spoil nature by art. - Proverb, (Latin) To whiten two walls from the same lime-pot. - Proverb, (Latin) Displaying page 16 of 18 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18
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