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Hide in plain sight.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
Love is blind.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
What goes up must come down.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Failing to plan, is planning to fail.
Manners maketh the man.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Less is more.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
You can have too much of a good thing.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Don't get mad, get even.
Walls have ears.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Slow and steady wins the race.
All the world loves a lover.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Seize the day.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Bad money drives out good.
Make hay while the sun shines.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
There's safety in numbers.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
There's a time and a place for everything.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
No man can serve two masters.
Never go to bed on an argument.
The early bird gets the worm.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
All publicity is good publicity.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
A cat may look at a king.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
No rest for the wicked.
Dead men tell no tales.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
An man's home is his castle.
It's the singer not the song.
Needs must when the devil drives.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
Different strokes for different folks.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
What can't be cured must be endured.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
All good things must come to an end.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
The customer is always right.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Let bygones be bygones.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Still waters run deep.
No man is an island.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
There is honour among thieves.
Curiosity killed the cat.
It never rains but it pours.
Nine tailors make a man.
Little pitchers have big ears.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
All's fair in love and war.
Enough is enough.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
Never give a sucker an even break.
A new broom sweeps clean.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
The more the merrier.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
A house is not a home.
Hope springs eternal.
Silence construes consent.
One good deed deserves another.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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