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To fire the first shot. [To throw down the gauntlet.] - Proverb, (Latin) To fish for a herring and catch a sprat. - Proverb To fish in the air. To hunt in the sea. - Proverb, (Latin) To fish with a golden hook. - Proverb, (Latin) To flay the flayed dog. - Proverb, (Italian) To flog a dead horse. - Proverb To flog a stone. - Proverb, (Latin) To fly, when no one pursues us. [Great timidity.] - Proverb, (Latin) To follow a man like his shadow. - Proverb, (Latin) To forget a kindness. - Proverb, (Latin) To fry in one's own grease. - Proverb To get out of one muck into another. - Proverb, (Spanish) To get out of the mire and fall into the river. - Proverb, (Portuguese) To get out of the rain under the spout. - Proverb, (German) To get out of the smoke and fall into the fire. - Proverb, (Portuguese) To give a cap and get a cloak. [Lat., Pilleum dat ut pallium recipiat.] - Proverb, (Latin) To give a duck to get a goose. - Proverb, (English) To give a pea for a bean. - Proverb, (French) To give a thing and take a thing Is to wear the devil's gold ring. - Proverb To give an egg to get an ox. - Proverb, (Dutch, French) To give change out for his coin. - Proverb, (French) To give court holy-water. - Proverb, (French) To give instruction in the form of praise. - Proverb, (Latin) To give one the sack. - Proverb, (Dutch) To go beyond the bounds. [To digress from the subject of discussion.] - Proverb, (Latin) To go for wool and come back shorn. - Proverb, (Spanish) To go mulberry gathering without a crook. - Proverb, (French) To go rabbit catching with a dead ferret. - Proverb, (Spanish) To go rabbit hunting with a dead ferret. - Proverb To go to the vintage without baskets. - Proverb, (French) To grease the fat pig's tail. - Proverb, (Spanish) To harness the horses behind the cart. - Proverb, (Dutch) To harness unwilling oxen. - Proverb, (Latin) To haul over the coals. - Proverb To have a bee in one's bonnet. - Proverb To have a bone in one's leg. - Proverb To have a crow to pluck with one. - Proverb To have a finger in the pie. - Proverb To have a good opinion of himself. - Proverb, (Latin) To have a rod in pickle for someone. - Proverb To have a wolf by the ears. - Proverb, (Greek) To have bats in the belfry. - Proverb To have friends both in heaven and hell. - Proverb, (French) To have hairs on his heart. (Hard-hearted.) - Proverb, (Spanish) To have it written on his forehead. - Proverb, (Spanish) To have many irons in the fire. - Proverb To have one foot in the grave. - Proverb To have one's brains in one's heels. - Proverb, (Spanish) To have one's labour for one's pains. - Proverb To have the belly up to one's mouth. - Proverb, (Spanish) Displaying page 11 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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