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To pound water in a mortar. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To pour oil upon the waters. - [Proverbial Phrases] To pour water into a sieve. - (Dutch) [Proverbial Phrases] To pour water on a drowned mouse. - [Proverbial Phrases] To pray to the saint until the danger is past. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To promise more butter than bread. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To promise more carts than oxen. - (Italian) [Proverbial Phrases] To pull down the house for the sake of the mortar. - (Italian) [Proverbial Phrases] To put a good face on a bad game. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To put a racehorse to the plough. - [Proverbial Phrases] To put a spoke in one's wheel. - [Proverbial Phrases] To put bread into a cold oven. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To put his finger on his lips. [To refuse to reveal what he knows.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To put his tail between his legs. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To put in a needle and take out a bar. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To put on one's doublet before one's shirt. - (Italian) [Proverbial Phrases] To put on the mask of a dancer when wearing the toga. [To do that which is out of place and inconsistent.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To put one's best foot foremost. - [Proverbial Phrases] To put one's nose out of joint. - [Proverbial Phrases] To put out the fire with tow. - (Italian) [Proverbial Phrases] To put salt on a bird's tail. - [Proverbial Phrases] To put the cart before the horse. - (Dutch, Italian, Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To put the plough before the oxen. - (French) [Proverbial Phrases] To put the same shoe on every foot. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To put water into a basket. - (Dutch) [Proverbial Phrases] To put your finger into another man's pie. - [Proverbial Phrases] To quarrel over a straw. - (Dutch) [Proverbial Phrases] To quarrel with his little finger. - [Proverbial Phrases] To quench fire with fire. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To quench fire with oil. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To rain upon the wet. - (Portuguese) [Proverbial Phrases] To re-open a wound. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To reckon without one's host. - [Proverbial Phrases] To reckon without one's hostess. - (Portuguese) [Proverbial Phrases] To reckon without the hostess. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To repel force by force. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To rob Peter to pay Paul. - [Proverbial Phrases] To row in the same boat. - [Proverbial Phrases] To row together, or in time. [To act in unison.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To run with the hard and hunt with the hounds. - [Proverbial Phrases] To run with the hare and hold with the hounds. - [Proverbial Phrases] To sacrifice certain for speculative profit. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To satisfy one's wants at a small cost. - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To save at the spiggot, and let it run out at the bong-hole. - (German) [Proverbial Phrases] To save at the spigot and let it run out of the bunghole. - [Proverbial Phrases] To save for old age, earning a maravedi and drinking three. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To see the sky through a funnel. - (Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] To see which way the cat jumps. - [Proverbial Phrases] To seek for a knot in a bulrush. [Lat., Nodum in scirpo quaerere.] - (Latin) [Proverbial Phrases] To sell a cat for a hare. - (Portuguese, Spanish) [Proverbial Phrases] Displaying page 12 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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