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He who hesitates is lost.
Possession is nine points of the law.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
There's safety in numbers.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Love makes the world go round.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
It's easy to be wise after the event.
Clothes do not make the man.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
The best things in life are free.
Count your blessings.
Slow and steady wins the race.
There's an exception to every rule.
Might is right.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Share and share alike.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
Fight fire with fire.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
A man is known by his friends.
The wages of sin is death.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Tomorrow is another day.
Forewarned is forearmed.
A watched pot never boils.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Blood is thicker than water.
If you build it, they will come.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Always put your best foot forward.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
East is east, and west is west.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
Love will find a way.
Small things amuse small minds.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
When one door shuts, another opens.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
There are two sides to every question.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
First things first.
Many hands make light work.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Failing to plan, is planning to fail.
Accidents will happen.
Speak as you find.
Quid pro quo.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
Silence is golden.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
A new broom sweeps clean.
No rest for the wicked.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Any port in a storm.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Make haste slowly.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Revenge is sweet.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
The Devil looks after his own.
You are what you eat.
Don't throw good money after bad.
An army marches on its stomach.
God helps those who help themselves.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
A cat may look at a king.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
East, west, home's best.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Seize the day.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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