Proverb: Tame the animal while it is young.
English Meaning: A pet lamb makes a cross lamb.
Proverb: The best prove itself in the long.
English Meaning: The most expert person start at last.
Proverb: The cat is out of the bag.
English Meaning: To disclose anything in public.
Proverb: The child is the father to the man.
English Meaning: Morning shows the day.
Proverb: The chip tougher than the old block.
English Meaning: The son shows off much more
Proverb: The cobbler must stick to his last.
English Meaning: The son show off much more than the father.
Proverb: The crown and glory of life is character .
English Meaning: Character is the best wealth in a man’s life.
Proverb: The devil listening to the Scriptures.
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Proverb: The devil would not listen to the Scriptures.
English Meaning: You can never reform a rogue.
Proverb: The end justifies the means.
English Meaning: In order to achieve an important or noble aim, it is acceptable to do something bad; you can use bad or immoral methods as long as you accomplish something good by usingbr /> them.
Proverb: The eyes are the window of the soul.
English Meaning: Man’s eyes indicate inner emotions.
Proverb: The grapes are sour.
English Meaning: One blames what one cannot get.
Proverb: The leopard cannot change its spots.
English Meaning: One cannot change one’s nature; Old habits die hard.
Proverb: The master’s will is law.
English Meaning: The powerful make law.
Proverb: The more laws, the more flaws.
English Meaning: The opposites are also available.
Proverb: The more you get/have, the more you want.
English Meaning: People are never satisfied with what they have.
Proverb: The more you read, the more you learn.
English Meaning: The more one reads, the more one knows.
Proverb: The more, the merrier.
English Meaning: it is all the better to have more than less
Proverb: The nearer the church, the farther from god.
English Meaning: The bad and the good exist side by side.
Proverb: The owl thinks all her young one’s beauties.
English Meaning: One’s own things are the best
Proverb: The parent’s life is the child’s copybook.
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Proverb: The pen is mightier than the sword.
English Meaning: Eloquent writing persuades people better than military force.
Proverb: The pot calls the kettle black.
English Meaning: You should not criticize someone for a fault that you have too.
Proverb: The real dignity of a man lies not in what he has but in what he is.
English Meaning: Dignity of a man comes through his qualities and character, not through his worldly possessions.
Proverb: The saucepan should not call the kettle black.
English Meaning: One bad man should not call another bad man a rogue.
Proverb: The shaft once shot does not return.
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Proverb: The sheep return to the flock.
English Meaning: Birds of feather flock together.
Proverb: The sin is past all atonement.
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Proverb: The spoilt child of a rich parent.
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Proverb: The very ruins of greatness are great.
English Meaning: Costly things are always costly
Proverb: The wages of the sin is death.
English Meaning: Sin ultimately leads to death
Proverb: The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
English Meaning: None but the sufferer knows his trouble.
Proverb: There are less to every wine.
English Meaning: There is no unmixed good.
Proverb: There is no argument like that of the stick.
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Proverb: There is no rose without a throne.
English Meaning: No pains, no gains
Proverb: There is no smoke without fire.
English Meaning: There can be no effect without a cause.
Proverb: There is no unmixed good.
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Proverb: They see eye to eye with one another.
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Proverb: Think twice before you take a risk.
English Meaning: Look before you leap
Proverb: Those who are born must die.
English Meaning: Death is a must for a living being.
Proverb: Thou he is careless to make his mark, others are moving mountains for him.
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Proverb: Time and tide wait for none.
English Meaning: Things will not wait for you are late, time flows and goes on working its own way.
Proverb: Time cures more than the doctor.
English Meaning: Time is the best healer
Proverb: Time is the best healer.
English Meaning: Emotional pain will grow less as a time passes; Time is great physician.
Proverb: Tit for tat.
English Meaning: Exact retaliation.
Proverb: To a biased mind everything is in fault.
English Meaning: All seem yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Proverb: To act surreptitiously.
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Proverb: To add insult to injury or To rub in.
English Meaning: All seem yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Proverb: To attract pointed attention towards.
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Proverb: To be abashed or disconcerted.
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Proverb: To be abused by them we do good.
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Proverb: To be careless about what happens.
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Proverb: To be caught unprepared.
English Meaning: To arrange something instantly without any preparation
Proverb: To be completely upset.
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Proverb: To be quick to occupy.
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Proverb: To be satisfied with an inferior substitute .
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Proverb: To be spoiled in early youth.
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Proverb: To be tarred with the same brush.
English Meaning: To be of same habit
Proverb: To be up and doing.
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Proverb: To beat about the bush.
English Meaning: To talk about something for a long time without coming to the main point.l
Proverb: To beat black and blue.
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Proverb: To bell the cat.
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Proverb: To big a talk for a child.
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Proverb: To bite the hand that feeds you.
English Meaning: To heart someone who has helped you.
Proverb: To blow hot and cold in the same breath.
English Meaning: To say two contradictory words.
Proverb: To break a butterfly upon a wheel.
English Meaning: To make a great arrangement for a little thing.
Proverb: To bring a calamity by one’s own imprudence.
English Meaning: To make way for one’s own destroyer.
Proverb: To bring a hornet’s nest about one’s ears.
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Proverb: To bring utter ruin.
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Proverb: To build castle in the air.
English Meaning: to indulge onself in day-dream
Proverb: To burn one’s house to frighten away the mice.
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Proverb: To burn the candle at both ends.
English Meaning: Too much work or too hard.
Proverb: To carry coal to Newcastle.
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Proverb: To cast pearls before swine.
English Meaning: Waste too good a thing on one least deserving.
Proverb: To cherish a serpent in one’s bosom.
English Meaning: To patronize an enemy.
Proverb: To count one’s chickens before they are hatched.
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Proverb: To cry in the wilderness.
English Meaning: Futile effort or prayer.
Proverb: To cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
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Proverb: To dig one’s own grave.
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Proverb: To do a great injury.
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Proverb: To earn fame by spending another’s money.
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Proverb: To earn one’s bread by the sweat of one’s brow.
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Proverb: To eat happily one’s bread of labour .
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Proverb: To enjoy a life of ease.
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Proverb: To err is human.
English Meaning: It is natural for man to make mistakes.
Proverb: To exact to the last penny.
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Proverb: To fall between two stools.
English Meaning: To lose both sides.
Proverb: To feather one’s nest.
English Meaning: To use power and prestige selfishly to provide for oneself.
Proverb: To feel ill at ease.
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Proverb: To fish in troubled water.
English Meaning: To gain something in disorder
Proverb: To follow in the footsteps of the wise.
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Proverb: To gain without spending.
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Proverb: To have one foot in the grave.
English Meaning: To be much old and very near to death.
Proverb: To hide in a superficial way.
English Meaning: To try or conceal anything and thereby to distract one’s attention to another affair.
Proverb: To hoist with one’s own petard.
English Meaning: A man falls in that trap which he makes for others.
Proverb: To keep counsel.
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Proverb: To kill two birds with one stone.
English Meaning: To be benefited doubly at the same time.
Proverb: To know how many beans, make five.
English Meaning: To be worldly wise.
Proverb: To lead the life of a dog.
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Proverb: To leave one in the lurch.
English Meaning: No to help after giving the promise of help.
Proverb: To lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
English Meaning: It is easy to be wise after the event; after death comes the doctor.
Proverb: To make a cat’s paw of a person.
English Meaning: One doth the geath, another hath the scorn.
Proverb: To make a mountain of a molehill.
English Meaning: Magnify trifles.
Proverb: To make cat’s paw of person.
English Meaning: one both the geath, another hath the scorn.
Proverb: To make free with another’s money.
English Meaning: To be careless with another’s money.
Proverb: To make free with public property.
English Meaning: To waste inconsiderably.
Proverb: To make gift at the cost of the owner.
English Meaning: To entertain a man by this own money.
Proverb: To make sure of something without risking anything.
English Meaning: A cat loves fishes but is loath to wet her feet.
Proverb: To mend nature or Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Proverb: To play with fire.
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Proverb: To pocket an insult.
English Meaning: To forbear an insult.
Proverb: To pour water on a drowned mouse.
English Meaning: To slay the slain.
Proverb: To pull the wires.
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Proverb: To put the cart before the horse.
English Meaning: To make a mess or diforder of something; to reverse the natural facts
Proverb: To reap the double advantage.
English Meaning: To be benefited doubly at the same time.
Proverb: To revile or abuse to one’s heart’s content.
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Proverb: To rob Peter to pay Paul.
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Proverb: To rob the robber.
English Meaning: To cheat a cheat.
Proverb: To see sparks before the eyes.
English Meaning: To be confounded or nonghosted.
Proverb: To set a fox to keep one’s geese.
English Meaning: A cheat must not be trusted with anything.
Proverb: To set a thief to catch a thief or Like cures like.
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Proverb: To swallow the bait.
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Proverb: To take a hammer to spread a plaster.
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Proverb: To teach the guilty a lesson by railing at the innocent.
English Meaning: To teach something to someone tactfully.
Proverb: To the pure all things are pure.
English Meaning: No evil can touch the pure.
Proverb: To think twice.
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Proverb: To try to hush something up, when it already known to many.
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Proverb: To utter a downright false-hood.
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Proverb: To water the top of a plant after laying the axe to its root.
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Proverb: Too much cooks spoil the broth.
English Meaning: Too many helpers make a mess of the thing.
Proverb: Too much courtesy, too much or full of craft.
English Meaning: Too much flattery often results in misdeed.
Proverb: Too much cunning overreaches itself.
English Meaning: A very cunning fellow seldom wins.
Proverb: Truth has no colour.
English Meaning: Truth has no change as the different changing colours of falsehood.
Proverb: Truth is stranger than fiction.
English Meaning: Reality may sometime be more surprising than the fiction.
Proverb: Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
English Meaning: The words uttered by dying men are always true.
Proverb: Truth will out.
English Meaning: The truth will always be discovered
Proverb: Two heads are better than one.
English Meaning: We stand or fall together.
Proverb: Two is company, three is none.
English Meaning: Two people make friendship, but three people cause a rift among them.
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