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Common Proverbs and Their Meanings

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  • life lessons,
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  • contentment,
  • hardship,
  • envy,
  • friendship,
  • loyalty,
  • humor,
  • human behavior,
  • ambition

1) It's not worth it

2) Never take anything for granted

3) Nothing ventured nothing gained

4) Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins one

5) Doing God knows what

7) It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools

8) To worry sick

9) The lid will be blown off/The cat will be out of the bag

10) Handsome is as handsome does

11) The weak is meat, the strong do eat

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13) So many men, so many minds

14) Spare the rod and spoil the child

15) No man can be wise on an empty stomach


16) To teach a fish to swim

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18) A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast

19) The apple does not fall far from the tree

20) Chickens come home to roost

21) When in need of advice, consult an old man/Children and fools tell the truth

22) The sin of the father

23) A woman's work is never done

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25) Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind

26) Words cut deeper than knives

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30) Good wine needs no bush

31) The tongue has no bone but it breaks bone

32) All for one and one for all

33) A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit

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35) The clothes don't make the man

36) Haste makes waste

37) A fool and his money are soon parted

38) Easier said than done

39) If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill

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44) Civility costs nothing


45) If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

46) To toot one's own horn

47) Give someone an inch, they'll take a mile

48) The empty vessel makes the greatest sound

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50) To live from hand to mouth

51) Seeing is believing

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55) The clothes don't make the man

56) Hard time creates good men

57) Pick and choose

58) A good name is sooner lost than won


59) Where there's life, there's hope

60) A bad apple spoils the bunch

61) The remedy is worse than the disease

62) The grass is always greener on the other side

63) Grin and bear it

64) Rats desert a sinking ship

65) Love me love my dog

66) look beneath the surface

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68) Diamond cuts diamond

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70) To serve smnt on a silver platter

71) United we stand, divided we fall

72) To give someone a taste of their own medicine

73) Tit for tat/an eye for an eye


74) handsome is as handsome does

75) it takes two to tango

76) give-and-take/quid pro quo

77) too many cooks spoil the broth

78) no pain no gain

79) a honey tongue, heart of gall

80) it's easier to catch a fly with honey than with vinegar

81) every jack has his jill/a man is known by the company ke keeps/birds of a feather flock together

82) only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

83) honors change manners

84) sow the wind and reap the whirlwind

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