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Big fish eat little fish.
Share and share alike.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
The best-laid plans go astray.
Every dog has its day.
Many hands make light work.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
The leopard does not change his spots.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Business before pleasure.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
A good man is hard to find.
The age of miracles is past.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Count your blessings.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Faith will move mountains.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
A picture paints a thousand words.
There's one born every minute.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
If the cap fits, wear it.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
Only fools and horses work.
Love will find a way.
Nothing succeeds like success.
You are what you eat.
Good things come in small packages.
You win some, you lose some.
A word to the wise is enough.
Love is blind.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
The truth will out.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
A poor worker blames the tools.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Never tell tales out of school.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Attack is the best form of defence.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Nine tailors make a man.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
Moderation in all things.
Accidents will happen.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
The wages of sin is death.
Crime doesn't pay.
Man does not live by bread alone.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Physician, heal thyself.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
Ignorance is bliss.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Let the buyer beware.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
All that glitters is not gold.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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