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To fight with windmills. - [Proverbial Phrases] To find a mare's nest. - [Proverbial Phrases] To fire the first shot. [To throw down the gauntlet.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To fish for a herring and catch a sprat. - [Proverbial Phrases] To fish in the air. To hunt in the sea. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To fish with a golden hook. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To flay the flayed dog. - (Italian) [Proverbial Phrases] To flog a dead horse. - [Proverbial Phrases] To flog a stone. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To fly, when no one pursues us. [Great timidity.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To follow a man like his shadow. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To forget a kindness. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To fry in one's own grease. - [Proverbial Phrases] To get out of one muck into another. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To get out of the mire and fall into the river. - (Portuguese) [Proverbial Phrases] To get out of the rain under the spout. - (German) [Proverbial Phrases] To get out of the smoke and fall into the fire. - (Portuguese) [Proverbial Phrases] To give a cap and get a cloak. [Lat., Pilleum dat ut pallium recipiat.] - (Latin) [Bargain : Proverbial Phrases] To give a duck to get a goose. - (English) [Proverbial Phrases] To give a pea for a bean. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To give a thing and take a thing Is to wear the devil's gold ring. - [Proverbial Phrases] To give an egg to get an ox. - (Dutch, French) [Bargain : Proverbial Phrases] To give change out for his coin. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To give court holy-water. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To give instruction in the form of praise. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To give one the sack. - (Dutch) [Proverbial Phrases] To go beyond the bounds. [To digress from the subject of discussion.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To go for wool and come back shorn. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To go mulberry gathering without a crook. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To go rabbit catching with a dead ferret. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To go rabbit hunting with a dead ferret. - [Proverbial Phrases] To go to the vintage without baskets. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To grease the fat pig's tail. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To harness the horses behind the cart. - (Dutch) [Proverbial Phrases] To harness unwilling oxen. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To haul over the coals. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have a bee in one's bonnet. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have a bone in one's leg. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have a crow to pluck with one. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have a finger in the pie. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have a good opinion of himself. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To have a rod in pickle for someone. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have a wolf by the ears. - (Greek) [Proverbial Phrases] To have bats in the belfry. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have friends both in heaven and hell. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To have hairs on his heart. (Hard-hearted.) - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To have it written on his forehead. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To have many irons in the fire. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have one foot in the grave. - [Proverbial Phrases] To have one's brains in one's heels. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] Displaying page 9 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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