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A bad heart and a good stomach. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] A barking stomach. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A candle under a bushel. [Unrevealed merit or skill.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A chip of the old block. - [Proverbial Phrases] A chip off the old block. - [Proverbial Phrases] A cold hand and a warm heart. - [Proverbial Phrases] A dancing pig. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A deity or a devil. [Either greater or less than man.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A divining rod. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A dog returned to his vomit. [Going back to bad habits.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A foxy tongue. [Cunning speech. Crafty arguments.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A frog in a well-shaft seeing the sky. - (Chinese) [Proverbial Phrases] A greater chatterbox than a raven. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A grove [so called because you cannot see into it.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A hair of the dog that bit you. - [Proverbial Phrases] A head without a tongue. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A king or a donkey. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A magpie aping a Syren! - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A man is known by the Company he joins. Bad communication trenches corrupt good manners. Never look a gift gun in the mouth. A drop of oil in time saves time. One swallow doesn't make a rum issue. Where there's a war there's a way. - popular in World War I, origin about 1917 [War] A man of three letters. [Lat., Homo trium literarum.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases : Thieves] A mere voice, and nothing more. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A necessary evil. [e.g., a wife.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A Nero at home, a Cato abroad. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A noisy useless fellow. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A partnership with a lion. [The lion takes all.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A passing remark. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A pretty kettle of fish. - [Proverbial Phrases] A proud man who will not bend the knee. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A reproach to the doctors. [An incurable malady.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A Roland for an Oliver. - [Proverbial Phrases] A rope of sand. - [Proverbial Phrases] A sardonic laugh. [An unnatural laugh.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A scraped writing tablet. [Lat., Tabula rasa.] - (Latin) [Beginnings : Proverbial Phrases] A self-conceited fellow. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A snail's gallop. - [Proverbial Phrases] A storm in a teacup. - [Proverbial Phrases] A three-halfpenny fellow. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] A triton among minnows. - [Proverbial Phrases] A white elephant. - [Proverbial Phrases] A wolf in his belly. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] Admiring himself like a peacock. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] After the fashion of a mouse. [i.e., living off others.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] After this; therefore on account of this. [Lat., Post hoc; ergo propter hoc.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] All leaf and no fruit. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] Always ready. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] An ambassador without authority. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] An amen clerk. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] An ass in a lion's hide. - [Proverbial Phrases] An ass in the skin of a lion. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] An ill-assorted couple. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] Displaying page 1 of 15 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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