هزار ضرب المثل و اصطلاح انگلیسی
۱۰۰۰ English Proverbs and Sayings
۰۱٫ A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
۰۲٫ A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
۰۳٫ A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
۰۴٫ A bargain is a bargain.
۰۵٫ A beggar can never be bankrupt.
۰۶٫ A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
۰۷٫ A bird may be known by its song.
۰۸٫ A black hen lays a white egg.
۰۹٫ A blind leader of the blind.
۱۰٫ A blind man would be glad to see.
۱۱٫ A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
۱۲٫ A burden of one’s own choice is not felt.
۱۳٫ A burnt child dreads the fire.
۱۴٫ A cat in gloves catches no mice.
۱۵٫ A city that parleys is half gotten.
۱۶٫ A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
۱۷٫ A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
۱۸٫ A clean hand wants no washing..
۱۹٫ A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
۲۰٫ A close mouth catches no flies.
۲۱٫ A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
۲۲٫ A cracked bell can never sound well.
۲۳٫ A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
۲۴٫ A curst cow has short horns.
۲۵٫ A danger foreseen is half avoided.
۲۶٫ A drop in the bucket.
۲۷٫ A drowning man will catch at a straw.
۲۸٫ A fair face may hide a foul heart.
۲۹٫ A fault confessed is half redressed.
۳۰٫ A fly in the ointment.
۳۱٫ A fool always rushes to the fore.
۳۲٫ A fool and his money are soon parted.
۳۳٫ A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
۳۴٫ A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
۳۵٫ A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
۳۶٫ A fool’s tongue runs before his wit.
۳۷٫ A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
۳۸٫ A foul morn may turn to a fair day.
۳۹٫ A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
۴۰٫ A friend in need is a friend indeed.
۴۳٫ A friend is never known till needed.
۴۲٫ A friend to all is a friend to none.
۴۳٫ A friend’s frown is better than a foe’s smile..
۴۴٫ A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
۴۵٫ A good beginning is half the battle.
۴۶٫ A good beginning makes a good ending.
۴۷٫ A good deed is never lost.
۴۸٫ A good dog deserves a good bone.
۴۹٫ A good example is the best sermon.
۵۰٫ A good face is a letter of recommendation.
۵۱٫ A good Jack makes a good Jill.
۵۲٫ A good marksman may miss.
۵۳٫ A good name is better than riches.
۵۴٫ A good name is sooner lost than won.
۵۵٫ A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
۵۶٫ A good wife makes a good husband.
۵۷٫ A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
۵۸٫ A great fortune is a great slavery.
۵۹٫ A great ship asks deep waters.
۶۰٫ A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
۶۱٫ A hard nut to crack.
۶۲٫ A heavy purse makes a light heart.
۶۳٫ A hedge between keeps friendship green.
۶۴٫ A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
۶۵٫ A hungry belly has no ears.
۶۶٫ A hungry man is an angry man.
۶۷٫ A Jack of all trades is master of none.
۶۸٫ A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
۶۹٫ A lawyer never goes to law himself.
۷۰٫ A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
۷۱٫ A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
۷۲٫ A lie begets a lie.
۷۳٫ A light purse is a heavy curse.
۷۴٫ A light purse makes a heavy heart.
۷۵٫ A little body often harbours a great soul.
۷۶٫ A little fire is quickly trodden out.
۷۷٫ A man can die but once.
۷۸٫ A man can do no more than he can.
۷۹٫ A man is known by the company he keeps.
۸۰٫ A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
۸۱٫ A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
۸۲٫ A miss is as good as a mile.
۸۳٫ A new broom sweeps clean.
۸۴٫ A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
۸۵٫ A penny saved is a penny gained.
۸۶٫ A penny soul never came to twopence.
۸۷٫ A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
۸۸٫ A rolling stone gathers no moss.
۸۹٫ A round peg in a square hole.
۹۰٫ A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
۹۱٫ A silent fool is counted wise.
۹۲٫ A small leak will sink a great ship.
۹۳٫ A soft answer turns away wrath.
۹۴٫ A sound mind in a sound body.
۹۵٫ A stitch in time saves nine.
۹۶٫ A storm in a teacup.
۹۷٫ A tattler is worse than a thief.
۹۸٫ A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
۹۹٫ A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
۱۰۰٫ A threatened blow is seldom given.
۱۰۱٫ A tree is known by its fruit.
۱۰۲٫ A wager is a fool’s argument.
۱۰۳٫ A watched pot never boils.
۱۰۴٫ A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
۱۰۵٫ A wolf in sheep’s clothing.
۱۰۶٫ A wonder lasts but nine days.
۱۰۷٫ A word is enough to the wise.
۱۰۸٫ A word spoken is past recalling.
۱۰۹٫ Actions speak louder than words.
۱۱۰٫ Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
۱۱۱٫ Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
۱۱۲٫ After a storm comes a calm.
۱۱۳٫ After dinner comes the reckoning.
۱۱۴٫ After dinner sit (sleep) a while, after supper walk a mile.
۱۱۵٫ After rain comes fair weather.
۱۱۶٫ After us the deluge.
۱۱۷٫ Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.
۱۱۸٫ All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
۱۱۹٫ All are not friends that speak us fair.
۱۲۰٫ All are not hunters that blow the horn.
۱۲۱٫ All are not merry that dance lightly.
۱۲۲٫ All are not saints that go to church.
۱۲۳٫ All asses wag their ears.
۱۲۴٫ All bread is not baked in one oven.
۱۲۵٫ All cats are grey in the dark (in the night).
۱۲۶٫ All covet, all lose.
۱۲۷٫ All doors open to courtesy.
۱۲۸٫ All is fish that comes to his net.
۱۲۹٫ All is not lost that is in peril.
۱۳۰٫ All is well that ends well.
۱۳۱٫ All lay load on the willing horse.
۱۳۲٫ All men can’t be first.
۱۳۳٫ All men can’t be masters.
۱۳۴٫ All promises are either broken or kept.
۱۳۵٫ All roads lead to Rome .
۱۳۶٫ All sugar and honey.
۱۳۷٫ All that glitters is not gold.
۱۳۸٫ All things are difficult before they are easy.
۱۳۹٫ All truths are not to be told.
۱۴۰٫ All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
۱۴۱٫ “Almost” never killed a fly (was never hanged).
۱۴۲٫ Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
۱۴۳٫ An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
۱۴۴٫ An ass in a lion’s skin.
۱۴۵٫ An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
۱۴۶٫ An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.
۱۴۷٫ An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
۱۴۸٫ An empty sack cannot stand upright.
۱۴۹٫ An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barrel.
۱۵۰٫ An evil chance seldom comes alone.
۱۵۱٫ An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
۱۵۲٫ An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
۱۵۳٫ An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
۱۵۴٫ An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
۱۵۵٫ An oak is not felled at one stroke.
۱۵۶٫ An old dog barks not in vain.
۱۵۷٫ An open door may tempt a saint.
۱۵۸٫ An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.
۱۵۹٫ An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.
۱۶۰٫ An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
۱۶۱٫ Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
۱۶۲٫ Any port in a storm.
۱۶۳٫ Appearances are deceitful.
۱۶۴٫ Appetite comes with eating.
۱۶۵٫ As drunk as a lord.
۱۶۶٫ As innocent as a babe unborn.
۱۶۷٫ As like as an apple to an oyster.
۱۶۸٫ As like as two peas.
۱۶۹٫ As old as the hills.
۱۷۰٫ As plain as the nose on a man’s face.
۱۷۱٫ As plain as two and two make four.
۱۷۲٫ As snug as a bug in a rug .
۱۷۳٫ As sure as eggs is eggs.
۱۷۴٫ As the call, so the echo.
۱۷۵٫ As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
۱۷۶٫ As the old cock crows, so does the young.
۱۷۷٫ As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
۱۷۸٫ As the tree, so the fruit.
۱۷۹٫ As welcome as flowers in May.
۱۸۰٫ As welcome as water in one’s shoes.
۱۸۱٫ As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
۱۸۲٫ As you brew, so must you drink.
۱۸۳٫ As you make your bed, so must you lie on it.
۱۸۴٫ As you sow, so shall you reap.
۱۸۵٫ Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
۱۸۶٫ At the ends of the earth.
۱۸۷٫ Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune .
۱۸۸٫ Bad news has wings.
۱۸۹٫ Barking does seldom bite.
۱۹۰٫ Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
۱۹۱٫ Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
۱۹۲٫ Beauty is but skin-deep.
۱۹۳٫ Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.
۱۹۴٫ Before one can say Jack Robinson.
۱۹۵٫ Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
۱۹۶٫ Beggars cannot be choosers.
۱۹۷٫ Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
۱۹۸٫ Best defence is offence.
۱۹۹٫ Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
۲۰۰٫ Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
۲۰۱٫ Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.
۲۰۲٫ Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
۲۰۳٫ Better an open enemy than a false friend.
۲۰۴٫ Better be alone than in bad company.
۲۰۵٫ Better be born lucky than rich.
۲۰۶٫ Better be envied than pitied.
۲۰۷٫ Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
۲۰۸٫ Better deny at once than promise long.
۲۰۹٫ Better die standing than live kneeling.
۲۱۰٫ Better early than late.
۲۱۱٫ Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown.
۲۱۲٫ Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
۲۱۳٫ Better late than never.
۲۱۴٫ Better lose a jest than a friend.
۲۱۵٫ Better one-eyed than stone-blind.
۲۱۶٫ Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
۲۱۷٫ Better the foot slip than the tongue.
۲۱۸٫ Better to do well than to say well.
۲۱۹٫ Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
۲۲۰٫ Better unborn than untaught.
۲۲۱٫ Better untaught than ill-taught.
۲۲۲٫ Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
۲۲۳٫ Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea.
۲۲۴٫ Between two evils ’tis not worth choosing.
۲۲۵٫ Between two stools one goes (falls) to the ground.
۲۲۶٫ Between the upper and nether millstone.
۲۲۷٫ Betwixt and between.
۲۲۸٫ Beware of a silent dog and still water.
۲۲۹٫ Bind the sack before it be full.
۲۳۰٫ Birds of a feather flock together.
۲۳۱٫ Blind men can judge no colours.
۲۳۲٫ Blood is thicker than water.
۲۳۳٫ Borrowed garments never fit well.
۲۳۴٫ Brevity is the soul of wit.
۲۳۵٫ Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.
۲۳۶٫ Business before pleasure.
۲۳۷٫ By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
۲۳۸٫ By hook or by crook.
۲۳۹٫ By the street of ‘by-and-bye’ one arrives at the house of ‘Never’.
۲۴۰٫ Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
۲۴۱٫ Care killed the cat.
۲۴۲٫ Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
۲۴۳٫ Caution is the parent of safety.
۲۴۴٫ Charity begins at home.
۲۴۵٫ Cheapest is the dearest.
۲۴۶٫ Cheek brings success.
۲۴۷٫ Children and fools must not play with edged tools.
۲۴۸٫ Children are poor men’s riches.
۲۴۹٫ Choose an author as you choose a friend.
۲۵۰٫ Christmas comes but once a year, (but when it comes it brings good cheer).
۲۵۱٫ Circumstances alter cases.
۲۵۲٫ Claw me, and I will claw thee.
۲۵۳٫ Cleanliness is next to godliness.
۲۵۴٫ Company in distress makes trouble less.
۲۵۵٫٫ Confession is the first step to repentance.
۲۵۶٫ Counsel is no command..
۲۵۷٫ Creditors have better memories than debtors.
۲۵۸٫ Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
۲۵۹٫ Crows do not pick crow’s eyes.
۲۶۰٫ Curiosity killed a cat.
۲۶۱٫ Curses like chickens come home to roost.
۲۶۲٫ Custom is a second nature.
۲۶۳٫ Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
۲۶۴٫ Cut your coat according to your cloth.
۲۶۵٫ Death is the grand leveller.
۲۶۶٫ Death pays all debts.
۲۶۷٫ Death when it comes will have no denial.
۲۶۸٫ Debt is the worst poverty.
۲۶۹٫ Deeds, not words.
۲۷۰٫ Delays are dangerous.
۲۷۱٫ Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
۲۷۲٫ Diligence is the mother of success (good luck).
۲۷۳٫ Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
۲۷۴٫ Divide and rule.
۲۷۵٫ Do as you would be done by.
۲۷۶٫ Dog does not eat dog.
۲۷۷٫ Dog eats dog.
۲۷۸٫ Dogs that put up many hares kill none.
۲۷۹٫ Doing is better than saying.
۲۸۰٫ Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
۲۸۱٫ Don’t cross the bridges before you come to them.
۲۸۲٫ Don’t have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
۲۸۳٫ Don’t keep a dog and bark yourself.
۲۸۴٫ Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
۲۸۵٫ Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
۲۸۶٫ Don’t sell the bear’s skin before you’ve caught it.
۲۸۷٫ Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
۲۸۸٫ Don’t whistle (halloo) until you are out of the wood.
۲۸۹٫ Dot your i’s and cross your t’s.
۲۹۰٫ Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
۲۹۱٫ Drive the nail that will go.
۲۹۲٫ Drunken days have all their tomorrow.
۲۹۳٫ Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.
۲۹۴٫ Dumb dogs are dangerous.
۲۹۵٫ Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
۲۹۶٫ Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
۲۹۷٫ Easier said than done.
۲۹۸٫ East or West ? home is best.
۲۹۹٫ Easy come, easy go.
۳۰۰٫٫ Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
۳۰۱٫ Empty vessels make the greatest (the most) sound.
۳۰۲٫ Enough is as good as a feast.
۳۰۳٫ Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
۳۰۴٫ Even reckoning makes long friends.
۳۰۵٫ Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
۳۰۶٫ Every barber knows that.
۳۰۷٫ Every bean has its black.
۳۰۸٫ Every bird likes its own nest.
۳۰۹٫ Every bullet has its billet.
۳۱۰٫ Every country has its customs.
۳۱۱٫ Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
۳۱۲٫ Every day is not Sunday.
۳۱۳٫ Every dog has his day.
۳۱۴٫ Every dog is a lion at home.
۳۱۵٫ Every dog is valiant at his own door.
۳۱۶٫ Every Jack has his Jill.
۳۱۷٫ Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
۳۱۸٫ Every man has his faults.
۳۱۹٫ Every man has his hobby-horse.
۳۲۰٫ Every man is the architect of his own fortunes.
۳۲۱٫ Every man to his taste.
۳۲۲٫ Every miller draws water to his own mill.
۳۲۳٫ Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.
۳۲۴٫ Every one’s faults are not written in their foreheads.
۳۲۵٫ Every tub must stand on its own bottom..
۳۲۶٫ Every white has its black, and every sweet its sour.
۳۲۷٫ Every why has a wherefore.
۳۲۸٫ Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
۳۲۹٫ Everything comes to him who waits.
۳۳۰٫ Everything is good in its season.
۳۳۱٫ Evil communications corrupt good manners.
۳۳۲٫ Experience is the mother of wisdom.
۳۳۳٫ Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
۳۳۴٫ Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
۳۳۵٫ Extremes meet.
۳۳۶٫ Facts are stubborn things..
۳۳۷٫ Faint heart never won fair lady.
۳۳۸٫ Fair without, foul (false) within.
۳۳۹٫ Fair words break no bones.
۳۴۰٫ False friends are worse than open enemies.
۳۴۱٫ Familiarity breeds contempt.
۳۴۲٫ Far from eye, far from heart.
۳۴۳٫ Fasting comes after feasting.
۳۴۴٫ Faults are thick where love is thin.
۳۴۵٫ Feast today and fast tomorrow.
۳۴۶٫ Fine feathers make fine birds.
۳۴۷٫ Fine words butter no parsnips.
۳۴۸٫ First catch your hare.
۳۴۹٫ First come, first served.
۳۵۰٫ First deserve and then desire.
۳۵۱٫ First think, then speak.
۳۵۲٫ Fish and company stink in three days.
۳۵۳٫ Fish begins to stink at the head.
۳۵۴٫ Follow the river and you’ll get to the sea.
۳۵۵٫ Fool’s haste is no speed.
۳۵۶٫ Fools and madmen speak the truth.
۳۵۷٫ Fools grow without watering.
۳۵۸٫ Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.
۳۵۹٫ Fools never know when they are well.
۳۶۰٫ Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
۳۶۱٫ For the love of the game.
۳۶۲٫ Forbearance is no acquittance.
۳۶۳٫ Forbidden fruit is sweet.
۳۶۴٫ Forewarned is forearmed.
۳۶۵٫ Fortune favours the brave (the bold).
۳۶۶٫ Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
۳۶۷٫ Four eyes see more (better) than two.
۳۶۸٫ Friends are thieves of time.
۳۶۹٫ From bad to worse.
۳۷۰٫ From pillar to post.
۳۷۱٫ Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
۳۷۲٫ Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.
۳۷۳٫ Gifts from enemies are dangerous.
۳۷۴٫ Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.
۳۷۵٫ Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
۳۷۶٫ Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell.
۳۷۷٫٫ Give never the wolf the wether to keep.
۳۷۸٫ Gluttony kills more men than the sword.
۳۷۹٫ Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
۳۸۰٫ Good clothes open all doors.
۳۸۱٫ Good counsel does no harm.
۳۸۲٫ Good health is above wealth.
۳۸۳٫ Good masters make good servants.
۳۸۴٫ Good words and no deeds.
۳۸۵٫ Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
۳۸۶٫ Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
۳۸۷٫ Grasp all, lose all.
۳۸۸٫ Great barkers are no biters.
۳۸۹٫ Great boast, small roast.
۳۹۰٫ Great cry and little wool.
۳۹۱٫ Great spenders are bad lenders.
۳۹۲٫ Great talkers are great liars.
۳۹۳٫ Great talkers are little doers.
۳۹۴٫ Greedy folk have long arms.
۳۹۵٫ Habit cures habit.
۳۹۶٫ Half a loaf is better than no bread.
۳۹۷٫ “Hamlet” without the Prince of Denmark .
۳۹۸٫ Handsome is that handsome does.
۳۹۹٫ Happiness takes no account of time.
۴۰۰٫ Happy is he that is happy in his children.
۴۰۱٫ Hard words break no bones.
۴۰۲٫ Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
۴۰۳٫ Harm watch, harm catch.
۴۰۴٫ Haste makes waste.
۴۰۵٫ Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
۴۰۶٫ Hate not at the first harm.
۴۰۷٫ Hatred is blind, as well as love.
۴۰۸٫ Hawks will not pick hawks’ eyes.
۴۰۹٫ He begins to die that quits his desires.
۴۱۰٫٫ He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
۴۱۱٫ He carries fire in one hand and water in the other.
۴۱۲٫ He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
۴۱۳٫ He gives twice who gives in a trice.
۴۱۴٫ He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man’s shoes.
۴۱۵٫ He is a fool that forgets himself.
۴۱۶٫ He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
۴۱۷٫ He is happy that thinks himself so.
۴۱۸٫ He is lifeless that is faultless.
۴۱۹٫ He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
۴۲۰٫ He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
۴۲۱٫ He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much.
۴۲۲٫ He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
۴۲۳٫ He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
۴۲۴٫ He knows how many beans make five.
۴۲۵٫ He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
۴۲۶٫ He laughs best who laughs last.
۴۲۷٫ He lives long that lives well.
۴۲۸٫ He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
۴۲۹٫ He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
۴۳۰٫ He smells best that smells of nothing.
۴۳۱٫ He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.
۴۳۲٫ He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.
۴۳۳٫ He that does you an i!i turn will never forgive you.
۴۳۴٫ He that fears every bush must never go a-birding.
۴۳۵٫ He that fears you present wiil hate you absent.
۴۳۶٫ He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
۴۳۷٫٫ He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
۴۳۸٫ He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
۴۳۹٫ He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
۴۴۰٫ He that has an ill name is half hanged.
۴۴۱٫ He that has no children knows not what love is.
۴۴۲٫ He that has He head needs no hat.
۴۴۳٫ He that has no money needs no purse.
۴۴۴٫ He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
۴۴۵٫ He that is full of himself is very empty.
۴۴۶٫ He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
۴۴۷٫ He that is warm thinks all so.
۴۴۸٫ He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
۴۴۹٫ He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
۴۵۰٫ He that lives with cripples learns to limp.
۴۵۱٫ He that mischief hatches, mischief catches.
۴۵۲٫ He that never climbed never fell.
۴۵۳٫ He that once deceives is ever suspected.
۴۵۴٫ He that promises too much means nothing.
۴۵۵٫ He that respects not is not respected.
۴۵۶٫ He that seeks trouble never misses.
۴۵۷٫ He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.
۴۵۸٫ He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.
۴۵۹٫ He that spares the bad injures the good.
۴۶۰٫ He that talks much errs much.
۴۶۱٫ He that talks much lies much.
۴۶۲٫ He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
۴۶۳٫ He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
۴۶۴٫ He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
۴۶۵٫ He that will thrive, must rise at five.
۴۶۶٫ He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
۴۶۷٫٫ He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
۴۶۸٫ He who is born a fool is never cured.
۴۶۹٫ He who hesitates is lost.
۴۷۰٫ He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
۴۷۱٫ He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.
۴۷۲٫ He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
۴۷۳٫ He who says what he likes, shall hear what he doesn’t like.
۴۷۴٫ He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
۴۷۵٫ He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell.
۴۷۶٫ He who would search for pearls must dive below.
۴۷۷٫ He will never set the Thames on fire.
۴۷۸٫ He works best who knows his trade.
۴۷۹٫ Head cook and bottle-washer.
۴۸۰٫ Health is not valued till sickness comes.
۴۸۱٫ His money burns a hole in his pocket.
۴۸۲٫ Honesty is the best policy.
۴۸۳٫ Honey is not for the ass’s mouth.
۴۸۴٫ Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
۴۸۵٫ Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
۴۸۶٫ Honours change manners..
۴۸۷٫ Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
۴۸۸٫ Hope is the poor man’s bread.
۴۸۹٫ Hunger breaks stone walls.
۴۹۰٫ Hunger finds no fault with cookery.
۴۹۱٫ Hunger is the best sauce.
۴۹۲٫ Hungry bellies have no ears.
۴۹۳٫ Idle folks lack no excuses.
۴۹۴٫ Idleness is the mother of all evil.
۴۹۵٫ Idleness rusts the mind.
۴۹۶٫ If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don’t bray at him.
۴۹۷٫ If ifs and ans were pots and pans…
۴۹۸٫ If my aunt had been a man, she’d have been my uncle.
۴۹۹٫ If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch..
۵۰۰٫ If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
۵۰۱٫ If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
۵۰۲٫ If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
۵۰۳٫ If we can’t as we would, we must do as we can.
۵۰۴٫ If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
۵۰۵٫ If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.
۵۰۶٫ If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
۵۰۷٫ If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
۵۰۸٫ If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
۵۰۹٫ If you laugh before breakfast you’ll cry before supper.
۵۱۰٫ If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
۵۱۱٫ If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
۵۱۲٫ If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick.
۵۱۳٫ If you try to please all you will please none.
۵۱۴٫ If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
۵۱۵٫ Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
۵۱۶٫ Ill-gotten, ill-spent.
۵۱۷٫ In every beginning think of the end.
۵۱۸٫ In for a penny, in for a pound.
۵۱۹٫ In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king.
۵۲۰٫ In the end things will mend.
۵۲۱٫ In the evening one may praise the day.
۵۲۲٫ Iron hand (fist) in a velvet glove.
۵۲۳٫ It is a good horse that never stumbles.
۵۲۴٫ It is a long lane that has no turning.
۵۲۵٫ It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.
۵۲۶٫ It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
۵۲۷٫ It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
۵۲۸٫ It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait.
۵۲۹٫ It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin (head).
۵۳۰٫ It is enough to make a cat laugh.
۵۳۱٫ It is good fishing in troubled waters.
۵۳۲٫ It is never too late to learn.
۵۳۳٫ It is no use crying over spilt milk.
۵۳۴٫ It is the first step that costs.
۵۳۵٫ It never rains but it pours.
۵۳۶٫ It’s as broad as it’s long.
۵۳۷٫ It’s no use pumping a dry well.
۵۳۸٫ It’s one thing to flourish and another to fight.
۵۳۹٫ It takes all sorts to make a world.
۵۴۰٫ Jackdaw in peacock’s feathers.
۵۴۱٫ Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
۵۴۲٫ Judge not of men and things at first sight.
۵۴۳٫ Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
۵۴۴٫ Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
۵۴۵٫ Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
۵۴۶٫ Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
۵۴۷٫ Last, but not least.
۵۴۸٫ Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
۵۴۹٫ Learn to creep before you leap.
۵۵۰٫ Learn to say before you sing.
۵۵۱٫ Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
۵۵۲٫ Least said, soonest mended.
۵۵۳٫٫ Leaves without figs.
۵۵۴٫ Let bygones be bygones.
۵۵۵٫ Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
۵۵۶٫ Let sleeping dogs lie.
۵۵۷٫ Let well (enough) alone.
۵۵۸٫ Liars need good memories.
۵۵۹٫ Lies have short legs.
۵۶۰٫ Life is but a span.
۵۶۱٫ Life is not a bed of roses.
۵۶۲٫ Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles).
۵۶۳٫ Like a cat on hot bricks.
۵۶۴٫ Like a needle in a haystack.
۵۶۵٫ Like begets like.
۵۶۶٫ Like cures like.
۵۶۷٫ Like father, like son.
۵۶۸٫ Like draws to like.
۵۶۹٫ Like master, like man.
۵۷۰٫ Like mother, like daughter.
۵۷۱٫ Like parents, like children.
۵۷۲٫ Like priest, like people.
۵۷۳٫ Like teacher, like pupil.
۵۷۴٫ Little chips light great fires.
۵۷۵٫ Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
۵۷۶٫٫ Little pigeons can carry great messages.
۵۷۷٫ Little pitchers have long ears.
۵۷۸٫ Little strokes fell great oaks.
۵۷۹٫ Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
۵۸۰٫ Little things amuse little minds.
۵۸۱٫ Live and learn.
۵۸۲٫ Live and let live.
۵۸۳٫ Live not to eat, but eat to live.
۵۸۴٫ Long absent, soon forgotten.
۵۸۵٫ Look before you leap.
۵۸۶٫ Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back.
۵۸۷٫ Lookers-on see more than players.
۵۸۸٫ Lord (God, Heaven) helps those (them) who help themselves.
۵۸۹٫ Lost time is never found again.
۵۹۰٫ Love cannot be forced.
۵۹۱٫ Love in a cottage.
۵۹۲٫ Love is blind, as well as hatred.
۵۹۳٫ Love me, love my dog.
۵۹۴٫ Love will creep where it may not go.
۵۹۵٫ Make haste slowly.
۵۹۶٫ Make hay while the sun shines.
۵۹۷٫ Make or mar.
۵۹۸٫ Man proposes but God disposes.
۵۹۹٫ Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
۶۰۰٫ Many a good cow has a bad calf.
۶۰۱٫ Many a good father has but a bad son.
۶۰۲٫ Many a little makes a mickle.
۶۰۳٫ Many a true word is spoken in jest.
۶۰۴٫ Many hands make light work.
۶۰۵٫ Many men, many minds.
۶۰۶٫ Many words hurt more than swords.
۶۰۷٫ Many words will not fill a bushel.
۶۰۸٫ Marriages are made in heaven.
۶۰۹٫ Measure for measure.
۶۱۰٫ Measure thrice and cut once.
۶۱۱٫ Men may meet but mountains never.
۶۱۲٫ Mend or end (end or mend).
۶۱۳٫ Might goes before right.
۶۱۴٫ Misfortunes never come alone (singly).
۶۱۵٫ Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
۶۱۶٫ Money begets money.
۶۱۷٫ Money has no smell.
۶۱۸٫ Money is a good servant but a bad master.
۶۱۹٫ Money often unmakes the men who make it.
۶۲۰٫ Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
۶۲۱٫ More haste, less speed.
۶۲۲٫ Much ado about nothing.
۶۲۳٫ Much will have more.
۶۲۴٫ Muck and money go together.
۶۲۵٫ Murder will out.
۶۲۶٫ My house is my castle.
۶۲۷٫ Name not a rope in his house that was hanged.
۶۲۸٫ Necessity is the mother of invention.
۶۲۹٫ Necessity knows no law.
۶۳۰٫ Neck or nothing.
۶۳۱٫ Need makes the old wife trot.
۶۳۲٫ Needs must when the devil drives.
۶۳۳٫ Neither fish nor flesh.
۶۳۴٫ Neither here nor there.
۶۳۵٫ Neither rhyme nor reason.
۶۳۶٫ Never cackle till your egg is laid.
۶۳۷٫ Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.
۶۳۸٫ Never do things by halves.
۶۳۹٫ Never fry a fish till it’s caught.
۶۴۰٫ Never offer to teach fish to swim.
۶۴۱٫ Never put off till tomorrow what you can do (can be done) today.
۶۴۲٫ Never quit certainty for hope.
۶۴۳٫ Never too much of a good thing.
۶۴۴٫ Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
۶۴۵٫ Never write what you dare not sign.
۶۴۶٫ New brooms sweep clean.
۶۴۷٫ New lords, new laws.
۶۴۸٫ Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
۶۴۹٫ No flying from fate.
۶۵۰٫ No garden without its weeds.
۶۵۱٫٫ No great loss without some small gain.
۶۵۲٫ No herb will cure love.
۶۵۳٫ No joy without alloy.
۶۵۴٫ No living man all things can.
۶۵۵٫ No longer pipe, no longer dance.
۶۵۶٫ No man is wise at all times.
۶۵۷٫ No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
۶۵۸٫ No news (is) good news.
۶۵۹٫ No pains, no gains.
۶۶۰٫ No song, no supper.
۶۶۱٫ No sweet without (some) sweat.
۶۶۲٫ No wisdom like silence.
۶۶۳٫ None but the brave deserve the fair.
۶۶۴٫ None so blind as those who won’t see..
۶۶۵٫ None so deaf as those that won’t hear.
۶۶۶٫ Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
۶۶۷٫ Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
۶۶۸٫ Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
۶۶۹٫ Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
۶۷۰٫ Nothing succeeds like success.
۶۷۱٫ Nothing venture, nothing have.
۶۷۲٫ Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
۶۷۳٫ Of two evils choose the least.
۶۷۴٫ Old birds are not caught with chaff.
۶۷۵٫ Old friends and old wine are best.
۶۷۶٫ On Shank’s mare.
۶۷۷٫ Once bitten, twice shy.
۶۷۸٫ Once is no rule (custom).
۶۷۹٫ One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.
۶۸۰٫ One chick keeps a hen busy.
۶۸۱٫ One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
۶۸۲٫ One fire drives out another.
۶۸۳٫ One good turn deserves another.
۶۸۴٫ One law for the rich, and another for the poor.
۶۸۵٫ One lie makes many.
۶۸۶٫ One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
۶۸۷٫ One man, no man.
۶۸۸٫ One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
۶۸۹٫ One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock.
۶۹۰٫ One swallow does not make a summer.
۶۹۱٫ One today is worth two tomorrow.
۶۹۲٫ Open not your door when the devil knocks.
۶۹۳٫ Opinions differ.
۶۹۴٫ Opportunity makes the thief.
۶۹۵٫ Out of sight, out of mind.
۶۹۶٫ Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
۶۹۷٫ Packed like herrings.
۶۹۸٫ Patience is a plaster for all sores.
۶۹۹٫ Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
۷۰۰٫ Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
۷۰۱٫ Plenty is no plague.
۷۰۲٫ Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much.
۷۰۳٫ Poverty is no sin.
۷۰۴٫ Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
۷۰۵٫ Practise what you preach.
۷۰۶٫ Praise is not pudding.
۷۰۷٫ Pride goes before a fall.
۷۰۸٫ Procrastination is the thief of time.
۷۰۹٫ Promise is debt.
۷۱۰٫ Promise little, but do much.
۷۱۱٫ Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
۷۱۲٫ Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
۷۱۳٫ Rain at seven, fine at eleven.
۷۱۴٫ Rats desert a sinking ship.
۷۱۵٫ Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
۷۱۶٫ Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
۷۱۷٫ Roll my log and I will roll yours.
۷۱۸٫ Rome was not built in a day.
۷۱۹٫ Salt water and absence wash away love.
۷۲۰٫ Saying and doing are two things.
۷۲۱٫ Score twice before you cut once.
۷۲۲٫ Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
۷۲۳٫ Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
۷۲۴٫ Self done is soon done.
۷۲۵٫ Self done is well done.
۷۲۶٫ Self is a bad counsellor.
۷۲۷٫ Self-praise is no recommendation.
۷۲۸٫ Set a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil.
۷۲۹٫ Set a thief to catch a thief.
۷۳۰٫ Shallow streams make most din.
۷۳۱٫ Short debts (accounts) make long friends.
۷۳۲٫ Silence gives consent.
۷۳۳٫ Since Adam was a boy.
۷۳۴٫ Sink or swim!
۷۳۵٫ Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
۷۳۶٫ Slow and steady wins the race.
۷۳۷٫ Slow but sure.
۷۳۸٫ Small rain lays great dust.
۷۳۹٫ So many countries, so many customs.
۷۴۰٫ So many men, so many minds.
۷۴۱٫ Soft fire makes sweet malt.
۷۴۲٫ Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .
۷۴۳٫ Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
۷۴۴٫ Soon ripe, soon rotten.
۷۴۵٫ Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear).
۷۴۶٫ Speech is silver but silence is gold.
۷۴۷٫ Standers-by see more than gamesters.
۷۴۸٫ Still waters run deep.
۷۴۹٫ Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
۷۵۰٫ Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.
۷۵۱٫ Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.
۷۵۲٫ Strike while the iron is hot.
۷۵۳٫ Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
۷۵۴٫ Success is never blamed.
۷۵۵٫ Such carpenters, such chips.
۷۵۶٫ Sweep before your own door.
۷۵۷٫ Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
۷۵۸٫ Take us as you find us.
۷۵۹٫ Tarred with the same brush.
۷۶۰٫ Tastes differ.
۷۶۱٫ Tell that to the marines.
۷۶۲٫ That cock won’t fight.
۷۶۳٫ That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.
۷۶۴٫ That’s a horse of another colour.
۷۶۵٫ That’s where the shoe pinches!
۷۶۶٫ The beggar may sing before the thief (before a footpad).
۷۶۷٫ The best fish smell when they are three days old.
۷۶۸٫ The best fish swim near the bottom.
۷۶۹٫ The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
۷۷۰٫ The busiest man finds the most leisure.
۷۷۱٫ The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.
۷۷۲٫ The cap fits.
۷۷۳٫ The cask savours of the first fill.
۷۷۴٫ The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
۷۷۵٫ The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws.
۷۷۶٫ The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
۷۷۷٫ The cobbler should stick to his last.
۷۷۸٫ The cobbler’s wife is the worst shod.
۷۷۹٫ The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
۷۸۰٫ The darkest place is under the candlestick.
۷۸۱٫ The devil is not so black as he is painted.
۷۸۲٫ The devil knows many things because he is old.
۷۸۳٫ The devil lurks behind the cross.
۷۸۴٫ The devil rebuking sin.
۷۸۵٫ The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
۷۸۶٫ The Dutch have taken Holland !
۷۸۷٫ The early bird catches the worm.
۷۸۸٫ The end crowns the work.
۷۸۹٫ The end justifies the means.
۷۹۰٫ The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear.
۷۹۱٫ The exception proves the rule.
۷۹۲٫ The face is the index of the mind.
۷۹۳٫٫ The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
۷۹۴٫ The fat is in the fire.
۷۹۵٫ The first blow is half the battle.
۷۹۶٫ The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
۷۹۷٫ The game is not worth the candle..
۷۹۸٫ The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
۷۹۹٫ The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
۸۰۰٫ The last drop makes the cup run over.
۸۰۱٫ The last straw breaks the camel’s back.
۸۰۲٫ The leopard cannot change its spots.
۸۰۳٫ The longest day has an end.
۸۰۴٫ The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
۸۰۵٫ The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
۸۰۶٫ The more haste, the less speed.
۸۰۷٫ The more the merrier.
۸۰۸٫ The morning sun never lasts a day.
۸۰۹٫ The mountain has brought forth a mouse.
۸۱۰٫ The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
۸۱۱٫ The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last.
۸۱۲٫ The pot calls the kettle black.
۸۱۳٫ The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
۸۱۴٫ The receiver is as bad as the thief.
۸۱۵٫ The remedy is worse than the disease.
۸۱۶٫ The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
۸۱۷٫ The scalded dog fears cold water.
۸۱۸٫ The tailor makes the man.
۸۱۹٫ The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
۸۲۰٫ The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
۸۲۱٫ The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions.
۸۲۲٫ The wind cannot be caught in a net.
۸۲۳٫ The work shows the workman.
۸۲۴٫ There are lees to every wine.
۸۲۵٫ There are more ways to the wood than one.
۸۲۶٫ There is a place for everything, and everything in its place.
۸۲۷٫ There is more than one way to kill a cat.
۸۲۸٫ There is no fire without smoke.
۸۲۹٫ There is no place like home.
۸۳۰٫ There is no rose without a thorn.
۸۳۱٫ There is no rule without an exception.
۸۳۲٫ There is no smoke without fire.
۸۳۳٫ There’s many a slip ‘tween (== between) the cup and the lip.
۸۳۴٫ There’s no use crying over spilt milk.
۸۳۵٫ They are hand and glove.
۸۳۶٫ They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.
۸۳۷٫ Things past cannot be recalled.
۸۳۸٫ Think today and speak tomorrow.
۸۳۹٫ Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
۸۴۰٫ Time and tide wait for no man.
۸۴۱٫ Time cures all things.
۸۴۲٫ Time is money.
۸۴۳٫ Time is the great healer.
۸۴۴٫ Time works wonders.
۸۴۵٫ To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames).
۸۴۶٫ To angle with a silver hook.
۸۴۷٫ To be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth.
۸۴۸٫ To be head over ears in debt.
۸۴۹٫ To be in one’s birthday suit.
۸۵۰٫ To be up to the ears in love.
۸۵۱٫ To be wise behind the hand.
۸۵۲٫ To beat about the bush.
۸۵۳٫ To beat the air.
۸۵۴٫ To bring grist to somebody’s mill.
۸۵۵٫ To build a fire under oneself.
۸۵۶٫ To buy a pig in a poke.
۸۵۷٫ To call a spade a spade.
۸۵۸٫ To call off the dogs.
۸۵۹٫ To carry coals to Newcastle.
۸۶۰٫ To cast pearls before swine.
۸۶۱٫ To cast prudence to the winds.
۸۶۲٫ To come away none the wiser.
۸۶۳٫ To come off cheap.
۸۶۴٫ To come off with a whole skin.
۸۶۵٫ To come off with flying colours.
۸۶۶٫ To come out dry.
۸۶۷٫ To come out with clean hands.
۸۶۸٫ To cook a hare before catching him.
۸۶۹٫ To cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
۸۷۰٫ To cut one’s throat with a feather.
۸۷۱٫ To draw (pull) in one’s horns.
۸۷۲٫ To drop a bucket into an empty well.
۸۷۳٫ To draw water in a sieve.
۸۷۴٫ To eat the calf in the cow’s belly.
۸۷۵٫ To err is human.
۸۷۶٫ To fiddle while Rome is burning.
۸۷۷٫ To fight with one’s own shadow.
۸۷۸٫ To find a mare’s nest.
۸۷۹٫ To fish in troubled waters.
۸۸۰٫ To fit like a glove.
۸۸۱٫ To flog a dead horse.
۸۸۲٫ To get out of bed on the wrong side.
۸۸۳٫ To give a lark to catch a kite.
۸۸۴٫ To go for wool and come home shorn.
۸۸۵٫ To go through fire and water (through thick and thin).
۸۸۶٫ To have a finger in the pie.
۸۸۷٫ To have rats in the attic.
۸۸۸٫ To hit the nail on the head.
۸۸۹٫ To kick against the pricks.
۸۹۰٫ To kill two birds with one stone.
۸۹۱٫ To know everything is to know nothing.
۸۹۲٫ To know on which side one’s bread is buttered.
۸۹۳٫ To know what’s what.
۸۹۴٫ To lay by for a rainy day.
۸۹۵٫ To live from hand to mouth.
۸۹۶٫ To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.
۸۹۷٫ To look for a needle in a haystack.
۸۹۸٫ To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water.
۸۹۹٫ To make a mountain out of a molehill.
۹۰۰٫ To make both ends meet.
۹۰۱٫ To make the cup run over.
۹۰۲٫ To make (to turn) the air blue.
۹۰۳٫ To measure another man’s foot by one’s own last.
۹۰۴٫ To measure other people’s corn by one’s own bushel.
۹۰۵٫ To pay one back in one’s own coin.
۹۰۶٫ To plough the sand.
۹۰۷٫ To pour water into a sieve.
۹۰۸٫ To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.
۹۰۹٫ To pull the devil by the tail.
۹۱۰٫ To put a spoke in somebody’s wheel.
۹۱۱٫ To put off till Doomsday.
۹۱۲٫ To put (set) the cart before the horse.
۹۱۳٫ To rob one’s belly to cover one’s back.
۹۱۴٫ To roll in money.
۹۱۵٫ To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
۹۱۶٫ To save one’s bacon.
۹۱۷٫ To send (carry) owls to Athens .
۹۱۸٫ To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
۹۱۹٫ To stick to somebody like a leech.
۹۲۰٫ To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
۹۲۱٫ To take counsel of one’s pillow.
۹۲۲٫ To take the bull by the horns.
۹۲۳٫ To teach the dog to bark.
۹۲۴٫ To tell tales out of school.
۹۲۵٫ To throw a stone in one’s own garden.
۹۲۶٫ To throw dust in somebody’s eyes.
۹۲۷٫ To throw straws against the wind.
۹۲۸٫ To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.
۹۲۹٫ To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.
۹۳۰٫ To wash one’s dirty linen in public.
۹۳۱٫ To wear one’s heart upon one’s sleeve.
۹۳۲٫ To weep over an onion.
۹۳۳٫ To work with the left hand.
۹۳۴٫ Tomorrow come never.
۹۳۵٫ Too many cooks spoil the broth.
۹۳۶٫ Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
۹۳۷٫ Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.
۹۳۸٫ Too much water drowned the miller .
۹۳۹٫ Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
۹۴۰٫ True blue will never stain.
۹۴۱٫ True coral needs no painter’s brush.
۹۴۲٫ Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.
۹۴۳٫ Truth is stranger than fiction.
۹۴۴٫ Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
۹۴۵٫ Two blacks do not make a white.
۹۴۶٫ Two heads are better than one.
۹۴۷٫ Two is company, but three is none.
۹۴۸٫ Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
۹۴۹٫ Virtue is its own reward.
۹۵۰٫ Wait for the cat to jump.
۹۵۱٫ Walls have ears.
۹۵۲٫ Wash your dirty linen at home.
۹۵۳٫ Waste not, want not.
۹۵۴٫ We know not what is good until we have lost it.
۹۵۵٫ We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
۹۵۶٫ We shall see what we shall see.
۹۵۷٫ We soon believe what we desire.
۹۵۸٫ Wealth is nothing without health.
۹۵۹٫ Well begun is half done.
۹۶۰٫ What can’t be cured, must be endured.
۹۶۱٫ What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
۹۶۲٫ What is done by night appears by day.
۹۶۳٫ What is done cannot be undone.
۹۶۴٫ What is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly.
۹۶۵٫ What is lost is lost.
۹۶۶٫ What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
۹۶۷٫ What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well.
۹۶۸٫ What must be, must be.
۹۶۹٫ What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
۹۷۰٫ What we do willingly is easy.
۹۷۱٫ When angry, count a hundred.
۹۷۲٫ When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
۹۷۳٫ When children stand quiet, they have done some harm.
۹۷۴٫ When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
۹۷۵٫ When guns speak it is too late to argue.
۹۷۶٫ When pigs fly.
۹۷۷٫ When Queen Anne was alive.
۹۷۸٫ When the cat is away, the mice will play.
۹۷۹٫ When the devil is blind.
۹۸۰٫ When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
۹۸۱٫ When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe.
۹۸۲٫ When three know it, alt know it.
۹۸۳٫ When wine is in wit is out.
۹۸۴٫ Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
۹۸۵٫ While the grass grows the horse starves.
۹۸۶٫ While there is life there is hope.
۹۸۷٫ Who breaks, pays.
۹۸۸٫ Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
۹۸۹٫ Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.
۹۹۰٫ Wise after the event.
۹۹۱٫ With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
۹۹۲٫ Words pay no debts.
۹۹۳٫ You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
۹۹۴٫ You cannot eat your cake and have it.
۹۹۵٫ You cannot flay the same ox twice.
۹۹۶٫ You cannot judge a tree by it bark.
۹۹۷٫ You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
۹۹۸٫ You cannot wash charcoal white.
۹۹۹٫ You made your bed, now lie in it.
۱۰۰۰٫ Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
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