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The show must go on.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
There's no fool like an old fool.
Handsome is as handsome does.
Good talk saves the food.
Children should be seen and not heard.
The more the merrier.
It's best to be on the safe side.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
The exception which proves the rule.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Different strokes for different folks.
A golden key can open any door.
There is no accounting for tastes.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Everyone has their price.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Practice makes perfect.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
East, west, home's best.
Keep your powder dry.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Silence is golden.
What goes around comes around.
You can't make bricks without straw.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Money makes the world go round.
Laughter is the best medicine.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Paddle your own canoe.
There's no place like home.
Virtue is its own reward.
Shrouds have no pockets.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
The early bird gets the worm.
Give the Devil his due.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
Life begins at forty.
Don't get mad, get even.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
More haste, less speed.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Big fish eat little fish.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Charity begins at home.
A thing begun is half done.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Curiosity killed the cat.
First come, first served.
You reap what you sow.
Cheats never prosper.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Knowledge is power.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
All good things must come to an end.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
Count your blessings.
There is honour among thieves.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Fight fire with fire.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
God helps those who help themselves.
You can't take it with you.
A fish always rots from the head.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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