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To wipe up the sea with a sponge. - Proverb, (Dutch) To wolf's flesh dog's teeth. - Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish) To work for the bishop. - Proverb, (Spanish) To worry hornets. - Proverb, (Latin) To wrest the prey from the hungry lion. - Proverb, (Latin) Tooth and nail. - Proverb Unbought feasts. [Lat., Dapes inemptae.] - Proverb, (Latin) Unbought grace. - Proverb, (Latin) Up, guards, and at 'em. - Proverb Utter confusion. - Proverb, (Latin) War to the knife. - Proverb Wash a blackamoor white. - Proverb We apples swim. [Lat., Nos poma natamus.] - Proverb, (Latin) Weary of life. - Proverb, (Latin) Well-digested hatred. - Proverb, (Latin) When mules breed. [i.e., Never.] - Proverb When the devil is blind. - Proverb When the frog has hair. - Proverb When the Greek Calends come round. [Never.] - Proverb, (Latin) When two Sundays come together. - Proverb, (German) When two Sundays meet. - Proverb Whiter than snow. - Proverb, (Latin) Willing and able. [Lat., Volens et potens.] - Proverb, (Latin) Willy nilly. - Proverb With all his strength. - Proverb, (Latin) With bad luck. - Proverb, (Latin) With beak and claw. - Proverb, (Latin) With claws and beak. [Lat., Unguibus et rostro.] - Proverb, (Latin) With good luck. - Proverb, (Latin) With oars and sails. - Proverb, (Latin) With sails and oars. - Proverb, (Latin) Worn bare by the helmet. - Proverb, (Latin) Worthy of a monument. - Proverb, (Latin) You count the waves. [Labour in vain.] - Proverb, (Latin) You rouse the fury of the lion. - Proverb, (Latin) Your wife and the sauce at the lance hand (the right hand). - Proverb, (Spanish) A baker's dozen. - Francois Rabelais, Works (bk. V, ch. XXII) To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall. - Sir Walter Scott The game is up. - William Shakespeare The short and the long of it. - William Shakespeare To make a virtue of necessity. - William Shakespeare . . . that was laid on with a trowel. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Celia at I, ii) Words, words, words. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii) To take up arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing end them. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i) To saw the air. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii) To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet. - William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Salisbury at IV, ii) As like as eggs. [As like as two peas.] - William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (Leontes at I, ii) As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Rivals (act III, st. 3) In the name of the Prophet--figs. - Horace Smith and James Smith, Rejected Addresses--Johnson's Ghost Like a fish out of water. [Lat., Sicut piscis sine aqua caret vita.] - Sozemen (Sozomenos Hermias), Ecclesiastical History (bk. I, ch. 13), attributed to Pope Eugenius Displaying page 17 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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