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Sayings & Proverbs
[edit]- 15 minutes of fame
- A feather in your cap
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- A rising tide lifts all boats
- A rolling stone gathers no moss
- A stone's throw away
- Achilles' heel
- Adage
- Afghan proverbs
- After Saturday Comes Sunday
- All that glitters is not gold
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- All's Well That Ends Well
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away
- Anti-proverb
- Aphorism
- Apples and oranges
- As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly
- As the crow flies
- Average Joe
- Back-seat driver
- Bald–hairy
- Bang for the buck
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Bed of roses
- Between Scylla and Charybdis
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea
- Black sheep
- Bless your heart
- Blind men and an elephant
- Blood is thicker than water
- Blood, toil, tears, and sweat
- Bread and butter (superstition)
- Break a leg
- Buck passing
- Bum rushing
- Bum steer
- Call a spade a spade
- Carrot and stick
- Cart before the horse
- Castle doctrine
- Cat and mouse
- Catch-22 (logic)
- Catchphrase
- Cheating death
- Chinaman's chance
- Chink in one's armor
- Chip on shoulder
- Cliché
- Cloak and dagger
- Cloud cuckoo land
- Cold shoulder
- Colloquialism
- Crocodile tears
- Cry Wolf
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back
- Cutting off the nose to spite the face
- Dark horse
- Dead ringer (idiom)
- Death and taxes (idiom)
- Devil's advocate
- Die with your boots on
- Don't cross the bridge until you come to it
- Don't judge a book by its cover
- Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
- Down Under
- Dressing down
- Duck test
- Each One Teach One
- Eating crow
- Elbow grease
- Elephant in the room
- Embarrassment of riches
- Ends of the Earth (figurative)
- Even a worm will turn
- Exception that proves the rule
- Feet of clay
- Filipino proverbs
- Flogging a dead horse
- Fly in the ointment
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
- Foot the bill
- Fortune favours the bold
- Forty winks
- Freudian slip
- Fruit of the poisonous tree
- Fulani proverbs
- Get a life (idiom)
- Get the hell out of Dodge
- Getting the wind knocked out of you
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- Go proverb
- God helps those who help themselves
- Going postal
- Grain of salt
- Hair's breadth
- Ham it up
- Head start (positioning)
- Heebie-jeebies (idiom)
- Hobson's choice
- Hoist with his own petard
- Hold your horses
- Holy cow (expression)
- Houston, we have a problem
- How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
- Humble pie
- I know it when I see it
- Idiom
- Idiot proof
- If wishes were horses, beggars would ride
- Illegitimi non carborundum
- Indian giver
- Is the glass half empty or half full?
- Isaac Watts
- It ain't over till the fat lady sings
- It takes a village
- Jack of all trades, master of none
- John Bradford
- Judgment of Solomon
- Jumping from the frying pan into the fire
- Justice delayed is justice denied
- Kashmiri Proverbs
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- Kick the bucket
- Kick the cat
- Learning the hard way
- Lion's share
- Lions led by donkeys
- List of proverbial phrases
- Live and Let Live
- Live by the sword, die by the sword
- Loose lips sink ships
- Lugbara proverbs
- Mad as a March hare
- Make a mountain out of a molehill
- Man bites dog (journalism)
- Man's best friend (phrase)
- Many a true word is spoken in jest
- Many happy returns (greeting)
- Mexican standoff
- Might makes right
- Milking the bull
- Mills of God
- Mind your Ps and Qs
- Monkey see, monkey do
- Monkey's uncle
- More Irish than the Irish themselves
- Mum's the word
- Murphy's law
- My two cents
- My way or the highway
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Netherlandish Proverbs
- Oldest profession (phrase)
- Out of the blue (idiom)
- Pain in the ass
- Paremiography
- Paremiology
- Patience is a virtue
- Peanut gallery
- Pearls before swine
- Perfect is the enemy of good
- Phrase
- Physician, heal thyself
- Pig in a poke
- Playing by ear
- Pork barrel
- Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
- Proverb
- Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
- Rags to riches
- Rain of animals
- Red herring
- Red sky at morning
- Red-light district
- Reinventing the wheel
- Rest in peace
- Rome wasn't built in a day
- Russian proverbs
- Sacred cow (idiom)
- Sands of time (idiom)
- Saying
- School of Hard Knocks
- Sea change (idiom)
- Second fiddle
- Silver bullet
- Silver lining (idiom)
- Silver spoon
- Sitting on the fence
- Skeleton in the closet (idiom)
- Skin of my teeth
- Slogan
- Smoke and mirrors
- So help me God
- Speak of the devil
- Square peg in a round hole
- Standing on the shoulders of giants
- Stiff upper lip
- Still waters run deep
- Stir crazy (condition)
- Stop press
- Straw that broke the camel's back
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
- Takes two to tango (idiom)
- Taking the piss
- Teaching grandmother to suck eggs
- Tell It to the Marines
- Tempest in a teapot
- The best defense is a good offense
- The blind leading the blind
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- The captain goes down with the ship
- The Centipede's Dilemma
- The devil is in the detail
- The Disobedient Child
- The dog ate my homework
- The Dog in the Manger
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend
- The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks
- The living daylights (idiom)
- The milkmaid and her pail
- The Moon is made of green cheese
- The pen is mightier than the sword
- The pot calling the kettle black
- The powers that be (phrase)
- The quick and the dead (idiom)
- The real McCoy
- The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions
- The seven-year itch
- The squeaky wheel gets the grease
- The whole nine yards
- There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
- There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
- Thirteenth stroke of the clock
- Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
- Three men make a tiger
- Three wise monkeys
- Throw under the bus
- Tilting at windmills
- Tinkerbell effect
- Tip of the tongue
- Toe the line
- Tongue-in-cheek
- Trip the light fantastic (phrase)
- True meaning of Christmas
- Trust in God and keep your powder dry
- Turn in one's grave
- Twiddly bits
- Unintended consequences
- Wagon fort
- Waving a dead chicken (over it)
- Weather lore
- Wellerism
- What's done is done
- When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going
- White elephant
- Wine, women and song
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- You can't have your cake and eat it