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OLD ENGLISH SAYING

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
      - [Fishermen]

A leap year
  Is never a good sheep year.
      - [Sheep]

As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy months will you have.
      - [Christmas]

May all your labors be in vein.
      - Mining Toast in Yorkshire [Toasts]

The wind that blows, the ship that goes
  And the lass the loves a sailor.
      - Popular Toast, used in England about 1820
        [Toasts]

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