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To pour water into a sieve. - Proverb, (Dutch) To pour water on a drowned mouse. - Proverb To pray to the saint until the danger is past. - Proverb, (Spanish) To promise more butter than bread. - Proverb, (French) To promise more carts than oxen. - Proverb, (Italian) To pull down the house for the sake of the mortar. - Proverb, (Italian) To put a good face on a bad game. - Proverb, (French) To put a racehorse to the plough. - Proverb To put a spoke in one's wheel. - Proverb To put bread into a cold oven. - Proverb, (Latin) To put his finger on his lips. [To refuse to reveal what he knows.] - Proverb, (Latin) To put his tail between his legs. - Proverb, (Latin) To put in a needle and take out a bar. - Proverb, (Spanish) To put on one's doublet before one's shirt. - Proverb, (Italian) To put on the mask of a dancer when wearing the toga. [To do that which is out of place and inconsistent.] - Proverb, (Latin) To put one's best foot foremost. - Proverb To put one's nose out of joint. - Proverb To put out the fire with tow. - Proverb, (Italian) To put salt on a bird's tail. - Proverb To put the cart before the horse. - Proverb, (Dutch, Italian, Latin) To put the plough before the oxen. - Proverb, (French) To put the same shoe on every foot. - Proverb, (Latin) To put water into a basket. - Proverb, (Dutch) To put your finger into another man's pie. - Proverb To quarrel over a straw. - Proverb, (Dutch) To quarrel with his little finger. - Proverb To quench fire with fire. - Proverb, (Spanish) To quench fire with oil. - Proverb, (Latin) To rain upon the wet. - Proverb, (Portuguese) To re-open a wound. - Proverb, (Latin) To reckon without one's host. - Proverb To reckon without one's hostess. - Proverb, (Portuguese) To reckon without the hostess. - Proverb, (Spanish) To repel force by force. - Proverb, (Latin) To rob Peter to pay Paul. - Proverb To row in the same boat. - Proverb To row together, or in time. [To act in unison.] - Proverb, (Latin) To run with the hard and hunt with the hounds. - Proverb To run with the hare and hold with the hounds. - Proverb To sacrifice certain for speculative profit. - Proverb, (Latin) To satisfy one's wants at a small cost. - Proverb, (Latin) To save at the spiggot, and let it run out at the bong-hole. - Proverb, (German) To save at the spigot and let it run out of the bunghole. - Proverb To save for old age, earning a maravedi and drinking three. - Proverb, (Spanish) To see the sky through a funnel. - Proverb, (Spanish) To see which way the cat jumps. - Proverb To seek for a knot in a bulrush. [Lat., Nodum in scirpo quaerere.] - Proverb, (Latin) To sell a cat for a hare. - Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish) To sell honey to the beekeeper. - Proverb, (Spanish) To sell the bird in the bush. - Proverb, (Italian) Displaying page 14 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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