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Life is just a bowl of cherries |
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Life is full of
happiness and pleasure |
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Like a bull in a china shop
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A clumsy or tactless
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Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted |
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Once a mistake has been
made or an error committed, it's too late to take precautions to
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The longest day must have an end
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All difficult jobs or
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Losers weepers, finders keepers
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If someone loses
something, he weeps -- but if someone finds it, he keeps it. |
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Love me, love my dog |
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If we want a person's
friendship we must accept him totally, faults and all. |
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Many hands make light work |
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Many people sharing a
job or tasks make easier work of it. |
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The mountain labors and brings forth a mouse
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To work hard and long
on a project that turns out to be pretty useless. |
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Opportunity only knocks once |
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Seize an opportunity when it
occurs for it may never happen again. |
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An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure |
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It is even better to be
cautious and prevent a misfortune or an accident from happening. |
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Possession is nine points of the law
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In disputes over
property ownership, the person in possession of something is
sometimes said to have nine-tenths a chance of winning it in a
legal argument |
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Promises are like pie crust |
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Most promises cannot be kept |
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Put a quart into a pint pot |
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Doing something that's impossible |
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The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike |
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No matter how good or bad a person, he must still face the
everyday problems that confront us all. |
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The
sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children |
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People will be punished for the wrongs committed by their parents,
forefathers, or those who have preceded them. |
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Someone's bark is worse than his bite |
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People sometimes bark but in time we learn they're not always as
frightening as they seem. |
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The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak |
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To do something unworthy just because it gives you the pleasure |
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A stitch in time saves nine |
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By taking immediate action we can prevent a fault, damage or
trouble from getting worse |
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A straw will show which way the wind blows |
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A small incident can reveal an important event |
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Teach an old dog new tricks |
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It is impossible to change someone's ways or habits, especially if
he is old and resists change |
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That's where the shoe pinches |
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That's the source or cause of a problem or an annoyance |
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There are none so blind as those that will not
see |
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People ,who never admit they might be wrong, refuse to listen to
the opinions or ideas of anyone |
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There are none so deaf as those who will not
hear |
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People sometimes hear only what they want to hear |
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There's more than one way to skin a cat |
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There is more than one way of getting a job done |
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The thin end of the wedge |
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That something can appear to be small and of no particular
importance - yet it can turn out to be the beginning of a major
problem. |
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever |
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It means that though something beautiful may not last, the happy
memory of it will live forever. |
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Time heals old wounds |
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The passing of time helps us to forget things that have caused us
pain or made us unhappy. |
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The truth will out |
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Truth about something will eventually be discovered or made known |
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Turn up like a bad penny |
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Something or someone disliked just won't go away |
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Two wrongs do not make a right |
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If a person does something to harm or offend us, that's wrong. If
we do something to harm them back, that's wrong too. |
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Uneasy is the head that wears the crown |
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Notable or important people are often concerned about losing their
positions. |
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Waste not, want not |
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If we're careful and waste nothing we'll never go without things
we need. |
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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach |
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Most men love to eat so feed your husband well and he will always
love you. |
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Wear out one's welcome |
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One is no longer welcome, usually because he has become a nuisance |
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When poverty comes in the door, love flies out
the window |
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As soon as a happily married couple begin having financial
problems and the bills pile up their love will disappear. |
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Who keeps company with wolves, will learn to
howl |
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If we associate with bad companions we, too, will become bad |
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You pays your money and you takes your chances |
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A humorous way of saying that we sometimes must trust in luck when
buying something. |
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them |
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If you are rich and successful, you will attract many friends, but
if you should suffer hardship or have misfortune ( adversity ),
your friends will quickly depart. |
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