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- To make the cup run over.
- To make (to turn) the air blue.
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last.
- To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel.
- To pay one back in one's own coin.
- To plough the sand.
- To pour water into a sieve.
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.
- To pull the devil by the tail.
- To put a spoke in somebody's wheel.
- To put off till Doomsday.
- To put (set) the cart before the horse.
- To rob one's belly to cover one's back.
- To roll in money.
- To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
- To save one's bacon.
- To send (carry) owls to Athens.
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
- To stick to somebody like a leech.
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
- To take counsel of one's pillow.
- To take the bull by the horns.
- To teach the dog to bark.
- To tell tales out of school.
- To throw a stone in one's own garden.
- To throw dust in somebody's eyes.
- To throw straws against the wind.
- To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.
- To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.
- To wash one's dirty linen in public.
- To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve.
- To weep over an onion.
- To work with the left hand.
- Tomorrow come never.
- Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
- Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.
- Too much water drowned the miller .
- Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
- True blue will never stain.
- True coral needs no painter's brush.
- Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.
- Truth is stranger than fiction.
- Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
- Two blacks do not make a white.
- Two heads are better than one.
- Two is company, but three is none.
- Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
- Virtue is its own reward.
- Wait for the cat to jump.
- Walls have ears.
- Wash your dirty linen at home.
- Waste not, want not.
- We know not what is good until we have lost it.
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
- We shall see what we shall see.
- We soon believe what we desire.
- Wealth is nothing without health.
- Well begun is half done.
- What can't be cured, must be endured.
- What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
- What is done by night appears by day.
- What is done cannot be undone.
- What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
- What is lost is lost.
- What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
- What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well.
- What must be, must be.
- What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
- What we do willingly is easy.
- When angry, count a hundred.
- When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
- When children stand quiet, they have done some harm.
- When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
- When guns speak it is too late to argue.
- When pigs fly.
- When Queen Anne was alive.
- When the cat is away, the mice will play.
- When the devil is blind.
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
- When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe.
- When three know it, alt know it.
- When wine is in wit is out.
- Where there's a will, there's a way.
- While the grass grows the horse starves.
- While there is life there is hope.
- Who breaks, pays.
- Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.
- Wise after the event.
- With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
- Words pay no debts.
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
- You cannot eat your cake and have it.
- You cannot flay the same ox twice.
- You cannot judge a tree by it bark.
- You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
- You cannot wash charcoal white.
- You made your bed, now lie in it.
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
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| Where are the meanings of these phrases? Please provide meaning of these pharases of English language. |
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