ENGLISHPROVERBS & SAYINGS –FORWARD PART 10 This posting has 863 words counted bythe computer, approximately 86 lines
Dear friends, The following are a few English proverbs Posted by: "V.Subramanian"dotth...@yahoo.com.sg Tue Dec 23, 2008 stored in my external memory. I thought of forwarding the same in parts. This is the last part of theposting Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 16-6-2021 901. Tomake the cup run over. 902. To make (to turn) the air blue. 903. To measure another man's foot by one's own last. 904. To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel. 905. To pay one back in one's own coin. 906. To plough the sand. 907. To pour water into a sieve. 908. To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody. 909. To pull the devil by the tail. 910. To put a spoke in somebody's wheel. 911. Toput off till Doomsday. 912. To put (set) the cart before the horse. 913. To rob one's belly to cover one's back. 914. To roll in money. 915. To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. 916. To save one's bacon. 917. To send (carry) owls to Athens . 918. To set the wolf to keep the sheep. 919. To stick to somebody like a leech. 920. To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. 921. Totake counsel of one's pillow. 922. To take the bull by the horns. 923. To teach the dog to bark. 924. To tell tales out of school. 925. To throw a stone in one's own garden. 926. To throw dust in somebody's eyes. 927. To throw straws against the wind. 928. To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine. 929. To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts. 930. To wash one's dirty linen in public. 931. Towear one's heart upon one's sleeve. 932. To weep over an onion. 933. To work with the left hand. 934. Tomorrow come never. 935. Too many cooks spoil the broth. 936. Too much knowledge makes the head bald. 937. Too much of a good thing is good for nothing. 938. Too much water drowned the miller . 939. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 940. True blue will never stain. 941. Truecoral needs no painter's brush. 942. Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. 943. Truth is stranger than fiction. 944. Truth lies at the bottom of a well. 945. Two blacks do not make a white. 946. Two heads are better than one. 947. Two is company, but three is none. 948. Velvet paws hide sharp claws. 949. Virtue is its own reward. 950. Wait for the cat to jump. 951.Walls have ears. 952. Wash your dirty linen at home. 953. Waste not, want not. 954. We know not what is good until we have lost it. 955. We never know the value of water till the well is dry. 956. We shall see what we shall see. 957. We soon believe what we desire. 958. Wealth is nothing without health. 959. Well begun is half done. 960. What can't be cured, must be endured. 961. Whatis bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh. 962. What is done by night appears by day. 963. What is done cannot be undone. 964. What is got over the devil's back is spent under hisbelly. 965. What is lost is lost. 966. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 967. What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well. 968. What must be, must be. 969. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. 970. What we do willingly is easy. 971. Whenangry, count a hundred. 972. When at Rome, do as the Romans do. 973. When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. 974. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. 975. When guns speak it is too late to argue. 976. When pigs fly. 977. When Queen Anne was alive. 978. When the cat is away, the mice will play. 979. When the devil is blind. 980. When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. 981. Whenthe pinch comes, you remember the old shoe. 982. When three know it, alt know it. 983. When wine is in wit is out. 984. Where there's a will, there's a way. 985. While the grass grows the horse starves. 986. While there is life there is hope. 987. Who breaks, pays. 988. Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet. 989. Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl. 990. Wiseafter the event. 991. With time and patience the leaf of the mulberrybecomes satin. 992. Words pay no debts. 993. You can take a horse to the water but you cannot makehim drink. 994. You cannot eat your cake and have it. 995. You cannot flay the same ox twice. 996. You cannot judge a tree by it bark. 997. You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. 998. You cannot wash charcoal white. 999. You made your bed, now lie in it. 1000.Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/334974297.409790.1623815520144%40mail.yahoo.com.
