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What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Let well alone.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Learn to walk before you run.
Birds of a feather flock together.
First impressions are the most lasting.
When one door shuts, another opens.
Slow but sure.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Enough is as good as a feast.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Still waters run deep.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
All's fair in love and war.
Less is more.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Waste not, want not.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
It's best to be on the safe side.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Less said, soon mended.
Bad money drives out good.
A man is known by his friends.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The exception which proves the rule.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The more the merrier.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Many hands make light work.
All things must pass.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
All roads lead to Rome.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
All good things must come to an end.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Talk is cheap.
One swallow does not a summer make.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Make love not war.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Home is where the heart is.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
To every thing there is a season.
He who hesitates is lost.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Big fish eat little fish.
Bad news travels fast.
More haste, less speed.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
One hand washes the other.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
Haste makes waste.
Forgive and forget.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
An army marches on its stomach.
Never go to bed on an argument.
Pride comes before a fall.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The show must go on.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
It takes one to know one.
Don't throw good money after bad.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Seize the day.
While there is life, there is hope.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
Charity begins at home.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Good things come to those who wait.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Silence construes consent.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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